About
Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her) is an experimental singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist weaving memory, mysticism, and melody into a sound world all her own. Her music lives somewhere between ritual and reverie — where beat-making meets string arrangement, and operatic ghosts dance through delay tunnels and moonlight. Kelli records in liminal, unexpected places: a swan-filled field, a haunted 1900s schoolhouse, a boat house, tunnels with a 12-second natural delay. Her collaborators include a talented circle of artists such as Jeffrey McNulty, Shawn Hatfield, Lori Goldston, Bobby Wane, and Brian Deck.
Raised in Chicago on punk shows and Sunday prayers taught by her Bohemian Czech grandmother, Kelli grew up learning the sacred and the strange in equal measure. This duality — the holy and the raw — shaped a musical path that led her through opera halls, poetry libraries, and basement shows, first starting with the band, Arkade and then finding full voice in her solo project. A lifelong wanderer, she's lived in the Black Forest, London, and by the sea — patchworking her sound through landscapes of magical realism and urban edge, lucid dreams and quiet superstition. Before singing her truth, she lived many lives: social worker, student, teacher, tap dancer — all echoes that now inform her musical spell work.
Her work has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Astral Noize, and White Light//White Heat, and played on NPR, BBC6, Dublab, and Resonance FM's Adventures in Sound with Joseph Stannard. She’s received support from The Grammy Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Her most recent full-length album, Tuff Feathers (Grimalkin Records), was named one of Bandcamp Daily’s Top 7 Essential Releases of November. Her compsoitions have also appeared on compilations for #ShoutYourAbortion and Women of Noise for Palestine.
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"Kelli Frances Corrado's music focuses on presence and healing" -Emily Pothast, The Wire
“A spellbound collage of avant-folk, ambient ritualism, and whispered resilience. Written during the chaos of PNW wildfires and COVID lockdowns, thIs song embodies survival, intuition and the quiet refusal to disappear” -Xav Leplae, Riverwest Radio
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Current offerings, include private online and limited in-person; Piano, Guitar, Songwriting lessons and Teacher Mentorship.
Kelli has been a teaching artist for over 18 years, specializing in helping the beginner start. Her philosophy is to create individualized lesson plans for each student based in theory, technique, ear training and student goals with an emphasis on creativity and empowerment. Believing music is a language based on listening and personal expression. She is also a part of the Seattle Office of Arts Culture, Creative Advantage teaching roster. Supporting a belief in the equity and accessibility of music lessons for everyone. Whether you are 5 or 70 years old, she can help you.
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