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Kelly Sweet Profile |
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Birth Place: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
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Birth Name: Kelly Sweet
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Biography |
Kelly Sweet is a pop singer/songwriter currently living in
Los Angeles, California.
Kelly Sweet was born into a musical household in Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, one in which her jazz pianist father and her
artist mother fostered a love and respect for music that
began when she was an infant. She was raised on the jazz
standards that were part of her father's repertoire, and
Sweet learned musical notes soon after she could walk with
her father's help. Her first public performance followed
when she was 4 years old at the Cape Cod Conservatory.
At the age of 7, following the divorce of her parents, Sweet
and her mother moved to Kanab, Utah. Sweet began working
regularly with a vocal coach and honed her skills as a
performer by singing at state fairs, county festivals, and
community theaters. Sweet and her mother eventually went on
the road for two years, traveling back and forth between
Kanab, Las Vegas and Los Angeles in search of performance
opportunities. At 14, the singer opened for Kenny Loggins in
Las Vegas. After hearing Sweet's demo CD, the Los Angeles
Lakers NBA team booked Sweet to sing the national anthem on
three occasions.
Sweet eventually met Grammy-nominated producer, arranger and
songwriter Mark Portmann (Josh Groban, Celine Dion) in July
of 2004, and the two began working together shortly
thereafter.
Sweet was featured in a USA Today article in July, 2006 on
up-and-coming "serious female singers."
In October, 2006, Sweet released an EP from which the songs
"We Are One" and "Ready For Love" have been used on episodes
of two daytime dramas, the NBC TV series Passions and the
ABC TV series One Life to Live, respectively. "We Are One"
was also featured on the NBC series Las Vegas in the spring
of 2007.
Sweet opened for Paul Simon on tour in July and October,
2006, and also appeared at the New York Mets-St. Louis
Cardinals NLCS baseball playoff game on October 17, 2006,
where she sang an a capella rendition of "God Bless
America."
Her debut album, entitled We Are One, was released by the
Razor and Tie label on March 6, 2007.
Recently, remixes for Kelly's song "We Are One" were done by
Dave Aude, Radioactive Sandwich, Matt Piso, and
Electronathon. |
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