About
Kelli Frances Corrado is an experimental singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a quilt of memories and mysticism. Growing up in Chicago, she would sneak out during school nights to see hip hop shows and spend Sundays learning prayer rituals taught by a Bohemian Czech grandmother. This set a unique musical foundation leading her to pursue opera training, string arranger, beat making and classical poetry. Giving voice to her spiritual beliefs, she has lived many lives before putting her heart in song: social worker, student, tap dancer, teacher, wanderer. Living in the Black Forest, London and by the sea, using weird and wonderful places to record: a field of swans, seaplane port, boat house, tunnels with 12 second natural delay, and a haunted school from the 1900s. These patches of experience and experimentaiont bring together a musical broth of magical realism and urban life ripe of lucid dreams and superstition.
Kelli has worked with a talented carousel of musicians and engineers: Jeffery McNulty, Shawn Hatfield, Bobby Wane, Lori Goldston, Brian Deck and more. Her music has been featured in The Wire , Bandcamp Daily, Astral Noize and White Light//White Heat. Played on radio stations; NPR’s Radio One, BBC6, Dublab, KEXP and The Wire presents Joseph Stannard Adventures in Sound playlist on Resonance FM. Receiving grants from The Grammy Foundation, Rauschenburg Foundation and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Her latest full length, Tuff Feathers on Grimalkin Record made ‘Top 7 Essential releases of November’ 2021 on Bandcamp Daily. Having tracks featured on compilations for Shoutyourabortion and Women of Noise For Palestine.
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Tuff Feathers
“Kelli Frances Corrado is a masterful arranger” - JJ Skolnik , Bandcamp Daily
“Tuff Feathers is magical realism in sonic form, one long dreamscape that feels at once vulnerable in a way that’s human and yet celestial, like something not quite of this universe.” -George Parr, Astral Noize
‘“Kelli Frances Corrado has haunted folk sensibilities which focus on presence and healing"- Emily Pothast, The Wire
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Currently, Kelli is offering online and limited in-person piano and guitar private lessons.
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 personal empowerment. Believing music is a language based on listening and personal expression. She is 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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Red Rose on Fire
This fall Kelli created a new symbol and made it into an enamel pin called, Red Rose on Fire. Is a symbol of finding strength thru vulnerability
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