Kelli Frances Corrado

I am Kelli Frances Corrado (She/Her), an experimental singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who writes, perform, teaches, and wanders. Creating music that feels as much like an invocation as it does a composition. Growing up, I would sneak out to DIY shows in Chicago, while learning prayers ritual prayers from my Czech grandmother. That blend of earth and ether, grit and grace, lives in the music I make. 

I first picked up the guitar playing in ambient project, Arkade, but over time, my music evolved into a fully formed solo vision. With a background in operatic training, string arranging, and poetry, I channel many lives, past and present, into my songs: social worker, tap dancer, teacher, student, wanderer. I have lived in the Black Forest, London, and by the sea. Inspired to create and record in weird and wonderful places: a church from 1800s, a haunted schoolhouse, a seaplane port, tunnels with 17-second 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 do a residency in Louisville KY co-supported by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.