Angie Grace, known to patrons of local clubs and cafes as a talent on the rise, has launched her first single which is a soulful tune she says is about finding small acts of kindness in her local community.
The songstress, in her final year of school at Canterbury College, is hoping her debut single Lil’ Community will launch the next phase of a successful music career.
On a shoestring budget, Angie was determined to perform and produce her own music video after spending time in social isolation creating new material.
Lil’ Community is a nostalgic feel good piece paying homage to the Buccan singer’s community. The video will be launched midnight September 15, but here’s the tune:
“I am fascinated by people and relationships” Angie said.
“We each have the ability to touch other people’s lives with our actions”.
Holed up at home during a pandemic is not how the aspiring singer songwriter imagined spending the second term of her final year of high school.
Regarded as one of Logan’s best up and coming solo acoustic entertainers, Angie was forced to give up performing at local clubs and cafes as Queensland descended into social isolation.
The resourceful teenager used the enforced break to focus on song writing and planning the release of her first single.
“They say necessity is the mother of invention” Angie laughed.
“I love working with other creative people and being hands on, but COVID-19 forced me to think about things differently.
“I decided to use social isolation as a time to write music and to work out how I could communicate to an audience when I couldn’t play my music live.”
Angie’s planning and hard work paid off when the team from the Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC) agreed to partially fund the Lil’ Community project.
With $500 from BEMAC she scratched together a further $500 and set about bringing her project to life.
Angie attributes the success of her music video to the generosity of the Beenleigh Historical Village, the Village Green Theatre Company, local cinematographers White Bug Film Co, friends and family.
“I am very grateful to our little community for getting behind me to make this music video possible” she said.
“We all had heaps of fun producing it and I learned so much along the way.
“I’m already planning my follow up single.”
Angie’s musical inspirations include Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, the Beetles, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles with her own rendition of Fly Me to the Moon a regular crowd favourite.
With a new position at De Vito Waterfront in Southport with singing Chef David De Vito Angie Grace is looking forward to completing Year 12 and advancing her musical career.
