Sunday, April 14, 2019

The Beauty of Song, Part Six: Grace Garland

Grace Garland is a jazz and pop singer who writes her own songs and has been active in music for over a decade.


She's concentrated more on live performances than recording, playing many venues throughout the country.  Her two albums are Lovers Never Lie (In Bed) from 2005 and Lady G! from 2016.  Her 2016 single "I'll Cry Later" won her the silver medal for Female Jazz Vocals at the Global Music Awards.

Grace Garland has also been an actress, appearing  as Vera Vanderbilt on the ABC soap opera "All My Children." in the early 1980s and playing Q's mother in the 1992 movie Juice.  She combined her singing and acting talents as an original cast member in the off-Broadway hit musical The Last Session, about a singer-songwriter who decides to kill himself before dying of AIDS and making one last record before ending it all.  Ms. Garland played Diva, and she appears on the on the musical's original-cast album.  

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