Kelli Frances Corrado

I’m Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her), an experimental singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who writes, performs, teaches, and wanders. My music is rooted in the blend of earth and ether, grit and grace, that shaped me growing up in Chicago’s DIY scene and learning prayer rituals from my Czech grandmother. With operatic training, string arranging, and poetry in my background, I weave together past and present lives into my songs; social worker, tap dancer, teacher, wanderer. I’ve lived in the Black Forest, London, and by the sea. I crete and record in weird and wonderful places: a 18th century church, a haunted schoolhouse, a seaplane port, tunnels with natural delay, a field of swans…

My music has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, and NPR. I have received grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. And have released music through labels; Grimalkin Records, Enmossed, Flat Field Records, Death Pillar Records, Lithic, and Aphonia Recordings. I am also a member of the Female Pressure network, and have contributed to compilations; Women of Noise for Palestine and #ShoutYourAbortion. In the spring of 2026, I was invited by the Woodbine Chamber to undertake a residency in Louisville, Kentucky, co-supported by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.