“It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that female singers are their own genre.”

American singer-songwriter and musician

Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Born in 1983, she is known for a solo career and for fronting Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the band she formed in 2002. She has released six solo albums, beginning with Red Shoe Rebel and Original Soul, and continuing with Midnight, Daylight, Mother Road, and Trespasser. With Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, she released four studio albums before the group disbanded in 2015. Her work moves between rock, soul, and roots-inflected songs.