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Grace Weber is an American soul singer and songwriter. Weber is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up near Milwaukee, WI. She gained widespread recognition in 2009, after performing on the Oprah Winfrey Show. In September 2011, Weber released her debut album, “Hope & Heart” which reached #8 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts in the US. Her sophomore album, “The Refinery” was released in October 2014 and reached #5 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts in the US. == Early life == Grace Weber was born on June 28 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Third of four children to Ralph Weber, a lawyer, and Patricia Mueller, a teacher, she grew up in a large and musical family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gass Weber Mullins - Classic Trial Lawyers )〕 Her grandfather required each of his 10 children to learn an instrument, so she was exposed to music from a young age from that family heritage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Weber )〕 At 12, she joined the Central City Youth Gospel Choir in Milwaukee and began singing gospel in earnest at churches and revivals around the city, as the choir gave her “instant validation that () voice could move people.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Weber )〕〔http://www.gmtoday.com/content/m_magazine/2011/April/m_042011_36.asp〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=amfm )〕 In 2004, at age 16, she performed on the nationally televised Showtime at the Apollo in Harlem, NY.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Weber Covers Warren Zevon's "Reconsider Me" - American Songwriter )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Weber On Mountain Stage )〕 She sang the gospel hymn “His Eye is on the Sparrow”. In the same year she was asked to perform at soccer icon Mia Hamm and baseball player Nomar Garciaparra’s wedding in Santa Barbara, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vox Magazine - Spring Preview 2012: Music )〕〔http://presidentialscholars.net/scholars_year.asp?scholar_year=2006&offset=100〕 In 2006, she was nominated for and became a Presidential Scholar for the Arts, through her receipt of the Silver Award in Popular Voice from the National Young Arts Foundation in the same year.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/arts/26gala.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0〕 As a part of the Presidential Scholars, Weber performed at the Kennedy Center shortly after.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Young Arts: Fall 2006 )〕 Also in 2006, Weber attended New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and created a major in Music Performance and Music Marketing with a minor in Studio Art. Weber graduated from NYU in May 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grace Weber + Robin Bacior + Merrily and the Poison Orchard and more )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grace Weber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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