Acclaimed Australian pianist, singer/songwriter Tracey Yarad has had a multifaceted career, touring Australia in her early years with original bands and a top 40 single in the ’90s. Following a seven-year music residency in Japan, she returned to Oz to focus on music education, running her music school for 18 years.
Earning a reputation as a renaissance woman after relocating to NYC in 2017, she reinvented herself as a jazz photographer with her works published in DownBeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
NYC serves as the inspiring backdrop for Tracey to fuel her creative musical spirit. In 2021 she recorded ‘All These Pretty Things,’ due for release in 2022 with Jon Cowherd, Tony Scherr, Josh Dion, Zach Brock, and Luca Benedetti. The album compiles songs, illustrations, and stories that chronicle her journey or, as she says, her ‘ejection’ from a longstanding marriage into a new life in the Big Apple.
Since moving to NYC, Tracey has produced two original music projects and concept shows with Jim Ridl and her all-female group, with Claudia Acuña, Jennifer Vincent, Elsa Nilsson, and Rosa Avila.
She lives in Brooklyn with her border collie, Billie Rae.
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