Grace Potter
Grace Evelyn Potter (born June 20, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.[1] She has released five solo albums: Red Shoe Rebel (2002), Original Soul (2004), Midnight (2015), Daylight (2019), and Mother Road (2023). She has also released four studio albums with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a band she formed in 2002, which disbanded in 2015 upon her divorce from her bandmate: Nothing but the Water (2005), This Is Somewhere (2007), Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (2010), and The Lion the Beast the Beat (2012).[2]
Grace Potter
Grace Evelyn Potter
June 20, 1983
Waitsfield, Vermont
- Singer-songwriter
- musician
- Vocals
- keyboards
- guitar
2002–present
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Early life
Potter was born on June 20, 1983, in Waitsfield, Vermont. Both of her parents, Peggy and Sparky Potter, were involved in professional woodworking; her mother was also a piano teacher. Her older sister, Charlotte Potter, is an artist who works with glass.[3] She was exposed to the arts at a very young age[3] and was encouraged by her parents to work with her hands.[4] Potter grew up legally blind in one eye and got bad grades. She was expelled from bands because she could not read music.[5]
In 1999, while attending Harwood Union High School, Potter was chosen to attend the three-week Governor's Institute on the Arts session at Castleton University. There, she learned from artists such as poet Verandah Porche.[3]
She attended to St. Lawrence University, but dropped out after her sophomore year to pursue a career in music.[1]
Personal life
Potter married bandmate Matt Burr on May 11, 2013.[32] They divorced in 2015, at which time the Nocturnals disbanded.[18]
Potter married her current husband,[33] record producer Eric Valentine, in 2017. They have one son, Sagan Potter Valentine (born January 12, 2018).[34]
Potter identifies as bisexual.[35]
Potter lives in Topanga, California. She previously lived in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, where she owned a 1920s Spanish bungalow that she refurbished; she sold the house in 2017.[4]
Potter has supported and fundraised for the Alzheimer's Association in honor of her paternal grandfather's battle with Alzheimer's disease.[36][37]
In June 2015, Potter was presented the "ASCAP Harry Chapin Vanguard Award" by WhyHunger for her work towards defeating world hunger.[4]
Potter is legally blind in one eye.[38]
Potter said that she does not belong to any religious group but values a spiritual life.[39]
In 2011, Potter founded the Grand Point North music festival in Burlington, Vermont.[40]