Grace Chatto is a British singer and musician. Chatto attended the Royal Academy of Music and is a cellist, percussionist and singer of great repute. She is a member of the group Clean Bandit which she formed in collaboration with brothers Jack and Luke Patterson, including Neil Amin-Smith whom she met while they were all studying at Cambridge University.
Clean Bandit’s single Rather won them a Grammy Award in 2015 for Best Dance Recording. Chatto studied Modern Languages at Jesus College and is fluent in Italian and Russian.
Grace Chatto bio
Grace Elizabeth Chatto was born on December 10, 1985, in London, England to Ruth and Ricky Chatto. She was a student at Latymer School and Westminster School. She also attended the Royal Academy of Music and Jesus College, Cambridge University, where she studied Modern Languages. She met brothers Jack and Luke Patterson as well as Neil Amin-Smith with whom she formed the band Clean Bandit at Cambridge University, where they were also studying at that time. For a time, Chatto and Amin-Smith led a string quartet together.
Chatto is fluent in Italian and Russian Russian, and she once turned down a job offer at Mi6 to pursue a career as a musician. Chatto once worked with a music teacher, but ended up getting fired when it was discovered that she had appeared almost naked in a music video. Grace Chatto is in a relationship with her teammate Jack Patterson. Grace is 1.70m (5ft 6in) tall and weighs 121lbs (55kg). She has a net worth of $10 million.
Musical career with Clean Bandit Band
The band Clean Bandit was formed in 2008 but it wasn’t until 2012 that their debut single A+E was released, A+E was followed by House of Mozart in 2013 which became an instant hit peaking at number 17 on UK Singles. Mozart’s House music video earned the band a UK Music Video Award nomination in the Best Dance Video – Budget category.
The band collaborated with Jess Glynne to release Rather in 2014. Their debut single was found to hit No. 1 on the UK charts and sold over a million copies. The only song to beat Rather Be in the UK was Pharrell Williams’ Happy. It went to the top of the Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Austrian and German charts and peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Rather won the group a Grammy Award in 2015 for Best Dance Recording. In 2014, the band released their debut album titled New Eyes which went gold. Clean Bandit’s second single, ranked first Rockabye which was released in 2016 and featured Anne-Marie and dance hall artist Sean Paul. Rockabye not only remained on the UK Singles Chart hits list, but also became the number one Christmas singles of 2016 and topped many international charts including Italian, Australian, Irish, Swiss and Swedish. The club banger Symphonie was their third number one single; the song featured Zara Larsson.
Since forming the Clean Bandit, Chatto has directed and produced their videos. She started a film production company called Cleanfilm with Jack Patterson in 2011 with the goal of creating their own music videos and creating videos for other artists.
The band’s single, Tears from their second album featured 2015 The X Factor winner Louisa Johnson. Tears peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Their 2017 single, Miss You You went platinum. Chatto and his band members are politically aware and have performed at UK Labor Party protests.
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Neil Amin-Smith, pianist and violin left the band in 2016. The band’s original vocalist, Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka, had left earlier to pursue a doctoral thesis. in laser analytics. Grace Chatto pointed out that although her band had some successful collaborations with other artists, a dream collaboration for her band would be a collaboration with Madonna.
Family
Chatto’s father, Ricky Chatto, is also a cellist. She and her father formed a group of cellist singers known as the Massive Violins and she occasionally plays with them. His father made him a cello for 10 years and gave it to him in 1997. Chatto also has a sister whose details are not public.