Kelli Frances Corrado

Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her) is an experimental singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist exploring the healing power of sound. She writes, performs, teaches, and wanders. Growing up sneaking into DIY shows in Chicago while learning ritual prayers from her Czech grandmother. That blend of earth and ether, grit and grace, lives in the music she makes.

With a background in operatic voice training, string arranging, and poetry, Kelli channels many lives, past and present, into her work: social worker, tap dancer, teacher, student, wanderer. She creates and records in weird and wonderful places: a church from the 1800s, a haunted schoolhouse, a seaplane port, tunnels with a 17-second natural delay, a field of swans.

Her music has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, and NPR. She has received grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. In 2024, she was commissioned by the dance troupe Sirens of Serpentine to create an original score.

Kelli is also a member of the Female Pressure network and has contributed to compilations like Women of Noise for Palestine and #ShoutYourAbortion. In spring 2026, she was invited by the Woodbine Chamber to undertake a residency in Louisville, Kentucky, co-supported by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.