“I want my music to feel like you’re shaking off a dark winter and embracing the sunshine,” details Nashville, Tennessee-based indie folk-pop artist Graci Phillips. “I want to create in song a safe haven to be real—a place that gives people permission to admit that they’re not perfect. No one has it all figured out and that’s okay. Life is messy, complicated, and beautiful. Let’s just enjoy the ride together.”
One could say Graci’s destiny as a songwriter and performing artist was inevitable. Her mom and dad are singer-songwriters who met at a record label in Nashville in the 1980’s. “I didn’t know that other families didn’t have weekly musical potlucks at their houses until I was pretty old. It was just what we did in my house,” she shares. She grew up in recording studios, and on the road, enjoying the exhilarating transience of a musician’s life. While in high school, Graci proved to be a prodigiously talented songwriter….