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Grace Chatto

Grace Chatto is an English musician and co-founder of electronic music bands Clean Bandit and Massive Violins.[2]

Grace Chatto
Chatto in 2019
Chatto in 2019
Background information
Born
North London, England[1]
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer
Instruments
  • Cello
  • violin
  • keyboards
  • percussion
  • vocals
Years active1997–present
Member of

Early life

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Chatto in 2014

Chatto was born in North London[1] and grew up in Crouch End, later relocating to Shoreditch.[3] She attended Latymer School[4] and Westminster School,[5] as well as the Royal Academy of Music. She studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Career

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Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson met while studying as undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge.[6] Patterson was interested in Chatto’s classical string quartet, The Chatto Quartet, led at the time by violinist Neil Amin-Smith, and began making samples using recordings of the string quartet’s concerts. Patterson then enlisted his younger brother Luke Patterson on the drums. Grace and Jack’s friend Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka (also known as Love Ssega) joined as the original vocalist, but later left to undertake a PhD in laser analytics. Love Ssega later appeared on Clean Bandit song "Telephone Banking" from their debut album New Eyes. Chatto also contributed vocals on the song "Come Over" featuring Stylo G.[5]

The band's name, Clean Bandit, comes from a translation of a Russian phrase from Chatto's friend, Maria Lisogorskaya; the meaning is similar to the English phrase "complete bastard", though Patterson later stated that it is actually a more affectionate term similar to "utter rascal".[7][8]

Personal life

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Chatto endorsed the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.[9]

Chatto has a degree in Russian literature, language and history.[10]

Awards and achievements

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Grace Chatto at Way Out West, Sweden (2014)

Clean Bandit's 2010 single "Mozart's House" reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart when re-released in 2013.[citation needed] In January 2014, they scored their first UK chart topping single with "Rather Be", a collaboration with Jess Glynne, featuring elements of both classical and dance music.[11] The song also reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Together with the other members of Clean Bandit, Jack Patterson and Luke Patterson, she has won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording 2015[12] for the track "Rather Be" and was nominated for two Brit Awards in 2015 and 2017.[13]

Chatto directed the video for Clean Bandit's 2016 single "Rockabye", which features rapper Sean Paul and singer Anne-Marie, and became their second number-one hit in the UK, becoming the Christmas number one single for 2016 in its seventh consecutive week at number-one.[14] Chatto also directed the video for Clean Bandit's single Symphony in March 2017, which contained an entire orchestra, with Clean Bandit members playing among them with Zara Larsson on lead vocals.[15]

Other projects

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Grace Chatto with Clean Bandit in concert at Rome, Italy on 28 June 2017.

Chatto and Jack Patterson formed their own film production company, Cleanfilm, to make music videos for themselves and other artists.[16] Chatto has produced and directed videos with Jack Patterson since the band's inception.

Chatto, with her father Ricky, formed a band of singing cellists called the Massive Violins, with whom she still performs.

On 10 November 2014, Chatto, along with Neil Amin-Smith was part of Band Aid 30[17] and featured on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" charity single to raise money towards the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.[18]

On 13 November 2020, Chatto was featured on "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" as part of the BBC Radio 2's Allstars' Children in Need charity single.[19] The single debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart[20] and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download Chart.[21]

Discography

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Charity singles

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Notes
UK
2014 "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
(as part of Band Aid 30)[22]		 1
2020 "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"
(as part of BBC Radio 2's Allstars)[25]		 7 To support BBC Children in Need's 2020 appeal.[26]

Filmography

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Films
Year Title Role Notes
1998 Hilary and Jackie Teena

References

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  1. 1 2 "Clean Bandit's Grace Chatto talks Jamaican dancehall workouts and her rainbow hair colours". 25 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Clean Bandit | Artist | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "At home with Clean Bandit's Grace Chatto: 'I have a Grammy in my toilet'".
  4. ↑ Bellotti, Alex. "Highly-strung sounds of success for Clean Bandit". Hampstead Highgate Express. Archived from the original on 29 December 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  5. 1 2 Parrish, Charlie (21 July 2015). "Clean Bandit on Cambridge, being shameless, and turning down MI6". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Interview: Clean Bandit". Varsity, the independent student newspaper for the University of Cambridge. 30 September 2011.
  7. ↑ "Clean Bandit: A classical approach to pop music". BBC News. 26 May 2014.
  8. ↑ Augustin, Camille (19 June 2014). "5 Facts You Should Know About Clean Bandit". Vibe. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Milne, Oliver (8 June 2017). "Who are celebrities voting for in 2017 General Election? The A-Z of famous names supporting Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems and Greens". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Clean Bandit: 'When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  11. ↑ Ryan, Patrick. "'Rather Be': From global hit to Grammy nominee". USA TODAY. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  12. ↑ "Grammys 2015: Complete list of winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. 8 February 2015. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  13. ↑ "Brit Awards 2017: the winners and stars in pictures, from Ed Sheeran to Little Mix". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  14. ↑ "Clean Bandit's Rockabye reaches Number 1 in the UK". Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  15. ↑ "Fuse". Fuse. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  16. ↑ "Interview: Clean Bandit". Varsity Online. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  17. ↑ "Band Aid 30: One Direction among celebrity line-up". The Daily Telegraph. 10 November 2014.
  18. ↑ "Elbow and Ed Sheeran among Band Aid 30 artists". BBC News Online. 10 November 2014.
  19. ↑ "BBC Radio 2 record star-studded official charity single to support BBC Children in Need's 2020 Appeal, featuring Cher, Kylie Minogue, Gregory Porter and many more". Children in Need.
  20. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100 – 20 November 2020 – 26 November 2020". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  21. ↑ "Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100 – 20 November 2020 – 26 November 2020". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  22. ↑ "Bob Geldof tells the public to download Band Aid 30 single: 'Whether you like it or not'". NME. 15 November 2014.
  23. ↑ "British certifications – Do They Know It's Christmas". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 8 March 2022. Type Do They Know It's Christmas in the "Search:" field.
  24. ↑ Li-mei, Hoang (10 November 2014). "Geldof to fire up charity hit 30 years on to fight Ebola". Reuters. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  25. ↑ "All-star BBC Children in Need charity single announced". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  26. ↑ "BBC Radio 2's Allstars including Cher, Kylie and Robbie Williams to release Stop Crying Your Heart Out cover for BBC Children in Need". Official Charts Company. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
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