GRACEY is the latest guest artist to appear on the Radio 1 Show Future Artists hosted by Jack Saunders, featuring on the show last night. The pop singer-songwriter chatted to Saunders about her music (and more) as well as performing two of her original songs.
Kicking things off with an exclusive interview, GRACEY spoke about her career, which began with her writing songs for other artists. She said, “I basically wanted to wait until I knew what I wanted to say, and the exact music I wanted to put out. It took until last year putting out my first single until I knew I was ready – it happened organically.”
Her first acoustic track of the evening was ‘Like That’, a stripped back version of the single including acoustic guitar and percussion to liven up the set. Originally released in August, the song features fellow artist Alexander23. GRACEY followed this up with her latest release ‘Don’t’, released in October as an electro-pop song which was compared by Saunders to the music of Charli XCX. The songwriter herself said that she loves up-tempo sad songs, and that “it is lyrically sad but it is, to me, very empowering and very strong. It’s everything I should have said.”
To bring the session to a close, she mentioned a few of her favourite artists and influences, which included Imogen Heap and Francis and the Lights. Coming this Friday 13th November is GRACEY’s mini album ‘The Art of Closure’, which will be her longest release to date. Sharing her first single just last year, GRACEY made her breakthrough in 2020 with the single ‘Don’t Need Love’ in collaboration with 220 Kid as it reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Prior to this she had written songs for artists such as Sub Focus, Lorde, and Kylie Minogue, and now she has built her own fanbase and career as an artist.
