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 Grace Chatto at Way Out West, Sweden (2014) | |
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| Born | 10 December 1985 London, England |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
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Grace Chatto (born 10 December 1985) is an English musician and singer who is the cellist, backing vocalist and occasional main vocalist, for the electronic music band Clean Bandit.
Chatto attended Latymer School [1] and Westminster School, as well as the Royal Academy of Music. She studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge, where she met founding band members Jack Patterson and Neil Amin-Smith, with whom she played in a string quartet. Chatto speaks Russian fluently. [2]
Clean Bandit's 2010 single "Mozart's House" reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart when re-released in 2013. Chatto held a position teaching cello at a school when it was first released, and her appearance in the music video – in which she appeared in her underwear with a violin obstructing her chest – prompted her to be fired after a parent complained. [3] In January 2014, they scored their first UK chart topping single with "Rather Be", a collaboration with Jess Glynne, featuring elements of both classical and dance music. [4] The song also reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Together with the other members of Clean Bandit, Jack Patterson and Luke Patterson, she has won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording 2015 [5] for the track "Rather Be" and was nominated for two Brit Awards in 2015 and 2017. [6]
Chatto directed the video for Clean Bandit's 2016 single "Rockabye", which features rapper Sean Paul and singer Anne-Marie, and became their second number-one hit in the UK, becoming the Christmas number one single for 2016 in its seventh consecutive week at number-one. [7] Chatto also directed the video for Clean Bandit's single Symphony in March 2017, which contained an entire orchestra, with Clean Bandit members playing among them with Zara Larsson on lead vocals. [8]
Chatto and Jack Patterson formed their own film production company, Cleanfilm, to make music videos for themselves and other artists. [9] Chatto has produced and directed videos with Jack Patterson since the band's inception.
Chatto, with her father, formed a band of singing cellists called the Massive Violins, with whom she still performs.
On 13 November 2020, Chatto was featured on "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" as part of the BBC Radio 2's Allstars' Children in Need charity single. [10] The single debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart [11] and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download Chart. [12]
Steve McCutcheon, known professionally as Steve Mac, is a British record producer, songwriter and musician. A multi-award-winning producer, he is one of the most prolific songwriters and record producers in modern British music, with contributions to 30 number one singles in the UK Singles Chart.
"Mozart's House" is a song by the English electronic music group Clean Bandit. It was released on 29 March 2013 as the second single from their first studio album, New Eyes (2014). The song peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart. It includes part of the String Quartet No. 21 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Clean Bandit are producers of dance music as well as music video directors, producers, editors, drone pilots and instrumentalists. The English electronic music group was formed in Cambridge in 2008, when Jack Patterson began sampling the sounds of The Chatto Quartet, a classical string quartet consisting of Grace Chatto, Neil Amin-Smith and other friends. Luke Patterson is the drummer and another producer and he and Jack are brothers. They began by starting a club night called National Rail Disco, where they gave their first live performances and led a dance music scene in Cambridge inviting DJs including James Blake, Ikonika and Joker to perform alongside them. They have won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for their global hit Rather Be, and they have received 8 Brit Nominations, 1 VMA nomination and won 2 Ivor Novello Awards. In the UK they have had 10 top-ten singles including 4 number-ones on the UK Official Singles Chart. Their self-directed music videos have amassed over 8 Billion views, with Rockabye currently at almost 3 billion views. The trio are known for blending elements of classical music and contemporary dance music, with songwriter and producer Jack Patterson’s distinctive sounds becoming a massive part of the UK music scene since 2010. They held the UK Christmas Number One single in 2016 with their song Rockabye featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie. Their latest single Cry Baby (2024) is a new collaboration with Anne-Marie and David Guetta. They collaborate with artists from all over the world, and produce in many different styles. Jack Patterson has also written for other artists, most notably Jess Glynne and Camila Cabello & Shawn Mendes (Señorita).
"Dust Clears" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit, featuring chorus vocals by Noonie Bao and mainly sung by band member Jack Patterson. The song was released on 19 July 2013 as the third single from their debut album, New Eyes. The song peaked at number 43 on the UK Singles Chart and number 14 on the UK Dance Chart.
"Rather Be" is a song by English electronic music group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals by Jess Glynne. It was released on 17 January 2014 as the fourth single from the group's debut studio album, New Eyes (2014). It also appears on the deluxe version of Glynne's debut album, I Cry When I Laugh (2015). It was co-written by band members Jack Patterson and Grace Chatto, along with Jimmy Napes and Nicole Marshall, and produced by Patterson and Chatto. Warner Music Group released a number of official remixes for download, with DJs such as All About She and Cash Cash.
New Eyes is the debut studio album by English electronic music group Clean Bandit, released on 30 May 2014 by Atlantic Records in Germany and Ireland, and 2 June 2014 in the United Kingdom, after suffering from several setbacks. The album includes the singles "A+E", "Mozart's House", "Dust Clears", "Rather Be", "Extraordinary" and "Come Over". New Eyes was produced entirely by group members Jack Patterson and Grace Chatto. The album peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments in excess of 100,000 copies. It is the band's only album to feature violinist and pianist Neil Amin-Smith, who left the band in 2016.
"Extraordinary" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals from Sharna Bass. It was written by Jack Patterson, Jimmy Napes, Grace Chatto and Gustave Rudman.
"A+E" is the debut single by British electronic group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals by Kandaka Moore and Nikki Cislyn. It was released on 7 December 2012 as the first single from their debut album, New Eyes. The song peaked at number 100 on the UK Singles Chart, but received mixed critical reception. The song's music video contains a CGI snake.
"Come Over" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit. It features British reggae artist Stylo G. Its first release was on 8 August 2014 in Ireland. The song features auto-tuned vocals from band member Grace Chatto.
English electronic music group Clean Bandit have released two studio albums, two extended plays, 22 singles, 22 music videos and 13 remixes. In December 2012, the group released their debut single "A+E", which peaked at number 100 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is the lead single from their debut album, New Eyes, which was released in May 2014. The album's second single, "Mozart's House", charted at number seventeen on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Clean Bandit's first top twenty single on the chart. "Dust Clears" was released as the third single from the album, reaching number forty-three on the UK chart. The album's fourth single, "Rather Be", features Jess Glynne and topped the UK Singles Chart, the group's first number one on the chart.
Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson is an English singer and songwriter. She has attained various charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye", which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm", "Ciao Adios", "Friends", "2002", "Don't Play" and "Kiss My (Uh-Oh)". Her debut studio album, Speak Your Mind (2018), peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Her next two studio albums, Therapy (2021) and Unhealthy (2023), both peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart.
"Rockabye" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring English singer Anne-Marie and Jamaican singer and rapper Sean Paul. It was released on 21 October 2016 and was their first single since Neil Amin-Smith's departure from the group and it serves as the lead single from their second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). The song is about hardships of single mothers and alludes to the nursery rhyme and lullaby, Rock-a-bye Baby. "Rockabye" is included on the deluxe edition of Anne-Marie's debut studio album, Speak Your Mind.
"Symphony" is a song by British classical crossover band Clean Bandit, featuring Swedish singer Zara Larsson. The song was released on 17 March 2017 as the second single from Clean Bandit's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). It was also released on the same day as Larsson's second album So Good, where it was included as a bonus track. The single peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart, becoming Larsson's first number one on the chart and Clean Bandit's third. Outside the United Kingdom, the single also topped the chart in Larsson's native Sweden, as well as in neighbouring Norway, in addition to being certified Diamond in France and Poland.
"Disconnect" is a song by English electronic music group Clean Bandit and Welsh singer and songwriter Marina Diamandis, under the stage name Marina and the Diamonds. It was composed by Diamandis and Jack Patterson, with the song's production handled by Luke Patterson, Jack Patterson, and Mark Ralph. It was released to digital retailers on 23 June 2017. The song became Diamandis' first single since her 2015 album Froot, and her last as Marina and the Diamonds; she currently uses the mononym Marina on further releases.
"I Miss You" is a song by British electronic music group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals from American singer and songwriter Julia Michaels. It was written by Michaels, Jack Patterson and Grace Chatto, with production handled by the latter two and Mark Ralph. The song was released to digital retailers on 26 October 2017, as the third single from Clean Bandit's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018).
"Solo" is a song by British electronic music band Clean Bandit featuring guest vocals from American singer Demi Lovato and pitched backing vocals from Kamille. It was released on 18 May 2018 through Atlantic Records as the fourth single from the band's second studio album, What Is Love? (2018). The song was written by Lovato, Kamille, Grace Chatto, Fred Gibson and Jack Patterson, and was produced by Chatto, Gibson, Patterson and Mark Ralph.
What Is Love? is the second studio album by British electronic music group Clean Bandit. It was released on 30 November 2018 by Atlantic Records. It includes the singles "Tears", "Rockabye", "Symphony", "I Miss You", "Solo", "Baby" and "Mama". In addition, the album also features collaborations with Rita Ora, Charli XCX, Bhad Bhabie and Tove Styrke. It is the band's first album as a trio, following the departure of multi-instrumentalist Neil Amin-Smith in 2016.
Caroline Furøyen, also known by her stage name Caroline Ailin, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter based in London. She co-wrote "New Rules", a single by Dua Lipa which reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and US pop radio in 2017. In 2019 Ailin, along with her collaborators Ian Kirkpatrick and Emily Warren, wrote the hit Dua Lipa song "Don't Start Now", for which they received nominations for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. She has also worked with a variety of other acts including, Zedd, Katy Perry, Clean Bandit, Ellie Goulding, Ella Mai, Louis the Child, MØ, and numerous others.
"Tick Tock" is a song by English electronic music group Clean Bandit and English singer Mabel, featuring American singer 24kGoldn. It was written by Mabel, 24kGoldn, Kamille, Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson, the latter two of whom also produced the song with Mark Ralph. It was released by Atlantic Records UK on 21 August 2020 as the first single from Clean Bandit's upcoming third studio album. The song is also included as a bonus track on digital and streaming versions of Mabel's debut studio album, High Expectations.
"Cry Baby" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit, English singer Anne-Marie and French DJ David Guetta. It was released on 9 August 2024 by B1 Recordings and Ministry of Sound Recordings, as the lead single from Clean Bandit's upcoming third studio album. The song was written by Anne-Marie, Jack Patterson, Camille Purcell, and Steve Mac, with the production being handled by Clean Bandit.
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