Press Kit
Melanie Grace
Singer. Songwriter. Unstoppable. Everything here is free to use — copy the bios, pull the facts, take the photos.
Fast facts
Based in
Southern California
Training
Classically trained vocalist, first soprano; minor in Biblical Studies
Genres
Pop singer-songwriter, folk, worship, Americana, holiday, lo-fi
Current project
An album every month of 2026, plus a blog every single day
Also in development
Bring Us Home, a two-act stage musical
Contact
Short bio
60 words
Melanie Grace is a Southern California singer-songwriter and classically trained vocalist who spent a decade filling journals with unfinished songs before she had the means to record them. She set out to release an album every month of 2026, each built around a season or a holiday. Some months she released more than one. She writes every lyric and melody herself.
Long bio
200 words
Melanie Grace is a classically trained vocalist with extensive formal choral experience, specializing in first soprano roles. She sang in choirs as a kid, led worship for years, plays guitar and piano, and holds a minor in Biblical Studies that shapes her faith records and her stage musical Bring Us Home.
What she did not have for years was a studio, a producer, or the money for either. So the songs stayed in the journals. More than ten of them, filled over a decade at two in the morning and in the car and anywhere else a melody turned up.
That changed when she began producing her own music with AI tools. Her first albums arrived in late 2025. Then she set a considerably harder goal: an album every month of 2026, each one built around a season or a holiday, plus a blog post every single day. Some months the songs would not wait their turn and she released two.
Melanie is candid about her process in a way most artists are not, publishing openly about where the words come from and how the recordings are built. The songs are still hers: her stories, her experiences, her choices. The tools are just how they finally got out of the notebooks.
Story angles
If you are looking for a hook, here are the ones people ask about most.
- An album a month, and sometimes two. What that pace actually takes, and what it costs.
- Ten journals, one decade. Songs that never became anything, and what it felt like to finally finish them.
- Radical transparency about AI. Melanie publishes her whole process rather than hiding it, and has thought hard about where the line sits between tool and author.
- Songs for people nobody writes songs for. Quilters. Thanksgiving hosts. People too burnt out to answer the door.
- Grief in the catalogue. “The Hug Collector” was written more than fifteen years ago about her father, who died of ALS.
Listen
Spotify · Apple Music · Amazon Music · YouTube Music · Deezer · Pandora
Photos
Press photos, album artwork, and behind-the-scenes images are available on request, or from the gallery on the Behind the Scenes page. Please credit Melanie Grace. Email for high-resolution files.
The press kit as a PDF
Everything on this page, laid out as an eight-page document you can download, print, or forward. Includes the full bio, story angles, interview questions, stats, and photos.
Licensing & sync
The catalogue covers Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and worship, Halloween, patriotic and Americana, Irish folk, summer, autumn, 90s nostalgia, lo-fi and rest, and songs for makers and quilters. If you are looking for a cue for film, television, advertising, podcast, or social, there is a good chance something here fits.
Melanie writes and owns her songs, which keeps licensing conversations simple. Email TheMelanieGrace@gmail.com with what you need and the timeline.