Grace Sheene

Grace Sheene is an American jazz vocalist and songwriter based in London, UK. Her velvety, powerful voice — steeped in the rich history of the Great American Songbook — and radiant stage presence enchant audiences with a soulfulness that feels at once timeless and new.

An established performer at many of London’s leading live music venues — from PizzaExpress Jazz Club and Crazy Coqs to Green Note and Downstairs at 180 — Grace is making her mark on the city’s vibrant jazz scene. This year, she’s making her debut album.

Accompanied by some of the finest musicians in the UK, Grace breathes new life into classic repertoire with authenticity, warmth, and style.

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“Her way with songbook standards is something very special indeed. It is above all the pacing and clever revealing of words – that ability to make you realise you’ve never heard them properly before. Yes, special.”

- UK Jazz News

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Grace performs concerts with her band at music venues and festivals, and is also available for private bookings and select vocal coaching opportunities — get in touch to enquire.

A woman passionately singing into a microphone with her eyes closed, wearing a cable knit sweater, with a guitar and other band members in the background, in a cozy indoor setting.

Projects

Grace has become known for her warm, clear tone and emotional honesty in her interpretations of songs from the canon - both familiar favorites and obscure treasures. She is presently working on arrangements of standards and originals for a debut album to be released towards the end of the year.

Press

“Her way with songbook standards is something very special indeed. She makes every syllable of every word count…

Her pause-craft and her pianissimo-craft are spectacular too. Musically, she has an uncanny instinct of how to use rhythmic and melodic freedom. The art of finding the teasing countermelodies which lurk behind the tunes seems like second nature. But it is above all the pacing and clever revealing of words – that ability to make you realise you’ve never heard them properly before. Yes, special.”

- UK Jazz News

“Her ability to produce such an emotive and powerful song was immediately striking. Grace’s lyrics perfectly matched the poetic voice of the character she was writing for… (her song) was also musically complex, also melodically and harmonically attractive on first listen.”

- Grant Olding, Tony nominated and Drama Desk Award winning composer

Live Performance Videos

Grace is available for international bookings with a variety of line-up options including duo, trio, quartet, and more. For booking inquiries, please see the contact form.

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TOMORROW NIGHT 🪩✨ American vocalist Grace Sheene brings her rich, soulful take on the Great American Songbook to @theflamingoclub 🦩 Backed by @harryashworthpiano on organ & @mattskeltondrums on drums, expect deep swing, smoky grooves, and timeless standards — set against the backdrop of Soho’s after-hours glow 🍸 📍 @flamingoclubsoho 49–51 Kingly Court Carnaby Street, W1F 9PY 🎙️ Live music from 8PM 🎟️ £10 on the door or book online to secure your table #jazzclub #soholondon #greatamericansongbook #londonjazz #londonlivemusic

🌷 it’s FINALLY blossom dearie iced coffee sonnet 98 rhubarb pie light jacket n prancing around the streets of London singing season once more 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃 “They Say It’s Spring” by Bob Haymes and Marty Clarke (1957) #singer #jazz #jazzsinger #london #greatamericansongbook

pinkies up 🌷🎞️

📣 Save the date! 🗓️ 3rd of June - 8pm 📍 PizzaExpress Live Chelsea Grace Sheene Sings Julie London ✨ Step into the smoky, elegant world of 1950s–60s jazz with Cry Me a River: Grace Sheene Sings Julie London. Joined by her trio, Grace Sheene reimagines the intimate songbook of Julie London — the velvet-voiced icon behind classics like Cry Me a River, I’m in the Mood for Love, and I’m Glad There Is You. An American jazz vocalist based in London, Sheene pairs a radiant stage presence with a sultry, powerful voice — steeped in the tradition of the Great American Songbook yet unmistakably her own. An evening of cool jazz, vintage glamour, and effortless swing awaits. ✨ 🎟️ Book tickets now on pizzaexpresslive.com - link in bio #ukjazz #julielondon #greatamericansongbook #jazzsinger #thingstodoinlondon

no April fools this year 🥯😛 just a handful of gigs for you! …and notice of an exciting summer gig announcement dropping TOMORROW 🌞🚬🍸 🪻 April 🪻 1st - @northlondonjazzcollective 8pm *2nd set JAM ❤️‍🔥 3rd - @crazycoqs Frankly Sinatra w/ @samfurlonger 9:15pm 🤩 8th - @aperivinobelsize w/ @harryashworthpiano - 7:30pm 9th - @browns_hotel w/ @matyasgayer @lorenzo_morabito 8pm ⭐️ 10th - @cityplacewanstead - 7pm 15th - @flamingoclubsoho trio - 8pm ✨🦩 16th - Brumus @haymarket_hotellondon trio - 5:30pm 17th - @barntheatrewgc An Evening of Great American Song w/ @mikehornerkeys @guydempsey789 - 8pm 😍 18th - @evansandpeel w/ @fraser.j.urquhart - 9pm 22nd - @aperivinobelsize w/ @matyasgayer - 7:30pm 24th - @toulouse.london The Piano Room - 7pm 25th - @toulouse.london The Piano Room - 7pm 29th - @downstairs.180 standards and originals 😮 w/ @harryashworthpiano - 8pm 👌🏼 see ya around 🤍 📸 @jameschristosphoto, who else? #ukjazz #jazzsinger #jazzvocalist #livemusiclondon #london

thought I’d recorded the whole song but my phone glitched after the bridge oops 🥲 anyhoo- one of my favorite composers and legends of great american song, Alec Wilder 🤍 “I’ll Be Around” (1942) #greatamericansongbook #singer #jazzvocalist #jazzsinger #ukjazz

a little background on the lyric of this somber song 🥀 ♥️ “I get along without you very well” #jazz #jazzsinger #jazzvocalist #greatamericansongbook #chetbaker

looking forward to being back at @downstairs.180 tomorrow night for a set with @andre_rinciari @conormurraybass @louisbjazz followed by a jam session! see you there 😎 📸 @jameschristosphoto #jazz #ukjazz #jazzvocalist #londonmusic #newvenue

it’s the talk of the town! @downstairs.180 stoked to be playing at this wonderful new London jazz venue on Tuesday 17th 🍀 at 8pm for ‘Down With It!’ with @andre_rinciari Conor Murray @louisbjazz - second set jam, so, musicians, come down! and I’ll be back again Wednesday, April 29th for an intimate duet concert ❤️ video from @fras_sax trio on Friday with @willarnoldforster @simonreadmusic 🙏🏼 #jazzsinger #thingstodoinlondon #jazzclub #jazzvocalist #livemusic

more like 16 going on 17 minutes I’ve been waiting for the mildmay line 🫢🥲 one of my favorites from the sound of music 🤍 that stormy gazebo scene, swoon! #greatamericansongbook #oldhollywood #musicals #jazz #jazzvocalist

end of “I Didn’t Know About You” by Duke Ellington; lyrics by Bob Russell at @pizzaexpresslive Soho yesterday for the Valentine’s lunch show: Alex Bryson in Love 💌 thank you so much @abrysonpiano for having me and to all who came out to appreciate his magnificent new music (and a few old standards too) 💘 it was the sweetest way to spend the day! 🎹 @abrysonpiano 🎻 Asaph Tal 🥁 Joe Dessauer @pacificdream3 thank you so much for this video! #ukjazz #jazzstandard #greatamericansongbook #jazzsinger #singer

settle this one for us: “potatoes” or “potatoes”? 🥔 “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (1937) by George and Ira Gershwin. Favorite recordings include those by OG Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, and Harry Conick Jr. for the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack 😍 🎹 and arrangement @fraser.j.urquhart 💌 #ukjazz #jazz #jazzsinger #duet #greatamericansongbook

FEBRUARY GIG DATES & January snaps 🫰🏼 1st - @boisdale_restaurants Belgravia, Sunday Jazz Lunch, qtet - 1pm 4th - @aperivinobelsize - 7:30pm 8th - @boisdale_restaurants Belgravia, Sunday Jazz Lunch, qtet - 1pm 11th - @aperivinobelsize - 7:30pm 12th - @batterseapwrstn trio - 5pm 13th - @downstairs.180 - 8pm 14th - @pizzaexpresslive Soho with @tin.pan.alex trio - 1pm @evansandpeel - 9pm 15th - @boisdale_restaurants Belgravia, Sunday Jazz Lunch, qtet - 1pm 18th - @aperivinobelsize - 7:30pm 21st - @themoustache99 qtet - 8pm 23rd - @rossellanw5 - 8pm see ya ‘round town 🫡 #greatamericansongbook #americansongbook #songbook #ukjazz #jazzsinger photo 1 by @zacmahrouche for @goodnightldn at @homehouselondon

just a little “Main Street” from On the Town (1949) which has periodically been an earworm for me ever since @fraser.j.urquhart showed it to me last year 🧡 I’ll always love a good Main Street. no offence UK high streets… it’s just not the same 🥲 filmed en route to the drugstore to get a chocolate soda while I was visiting home - not actually in my hometown, but on a charming Main Street nonetheless #greatamericansongbook #comdenandgreen #jazz #oldhollywood #oldies

just dropped by to say hello :-) (and have a chocolate soda)

she’s a great appreciator of the American Songbook but not to the extent of knowing every lyric, and that’s ok 😂 also just classic mom behavior advising u to wear not one but two coats 🧥🧥 “on the sunny side of the street” (1930) ! #greatamericansongbook #jazz #jazzmemes #funnyreels #reels

“I Wish You Love” 🥀 (1957 lyric by Albert Beach, 1942 music and original lyric by Charles Trenet, Léo Chauliac) 🇫🇷 in the middle of a forest in Kentucky because i used to come out here and sing growing up 🌲🌲🎼 #greatamericansongbook #jazz #singer #frenchsong #kentucky

name that verse 💬👇🏼 this is the second half of it, with my pal (😉 hint hint) @miayla_harp ! #1940s #greatamericansongbook #musical #singer #harp

📣 Save the date!

🗓️ 3rd of June - 8pm
📍 PizzaExpress Live Chelsea

Grace Sheene Sings Julie London

✨ Step into the smoky, elegant world of 1950s–60s jazz with Cry Me a River: Grace Sheene Sings Julie London. Joined by her trio, Grace Sheen

With Down for the Count Big Band, Oct. '25.

Grace Sheene Quartet at The Parlour, The Ned, Mar. '25.

With Sam Furlonger at The Vortex Jazz Club, Dec. '24.