Kelly Sweet

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Kelly Sweet is a pop singer/songwriter currently living in Los Angeles, California.

[edit] Biography & Career

Kelly Sweet was born into a musical household in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, one in which her jazz pianist father and her artist mother fostered a love and respect for music that began when she was an infant. She was raised on the jazz standards that were part of her father's repertoire, and Sweet gravitated to her father at the piano to learn musical notes soon after she could walk. Her first public performance followed when she was 4 years old at the Cape Cod Conservatory.

At the age of 7, following the divorce of her parents, Sweet and her mother moved to Kanab, Utah. Sweet began working regularly with a vocal coach and honed her skills as a performer by singing at state fairs, county festivals, and community theaters. Sweet and her mother eventually went on the road for two years, traveling back and forth between Kanab, Las Vegas and Los Angeles in search of performance opportunities. At 14, the singer opened for Kenny Loggins in Las Vegas. After hearing Sweet's demo CD, the Los Angeles Lakers NBA team booked Sweet to sing the national anthem on three occasions.

Sweet eventually met Grammy-nominated producer, arranger and songwriter Mark Portmann (Josh Groban, Celine Dion) in July of 2004, and the two began working together shortly thereafter. Sweet was featured in a USA Today article in July, 2006 on up and coming "serious female singers". Sweet released an EP in October, 2006 and the songs "We Are One" and "Ready For Love" have been used on episodes of two daytime dramas (the NBC TV series Passions and the ABC TV series One Life to Live, respectively). Sweet also opened for Paul Simon on tour in July and October, 2006. Her debut album, titled "We Are One", was released by the Razor and Tie label on March 6, 2007. Sweet also appeared at the New York Mets-St. Louis Cardinals NLCS baseball playoff game on October 17, 2006, where she sang an a capella rendition of "God Bless America".