Kacee Clanton
American musician
Kacee Clanton (born Kellie Kristine Clanton) is an American, Nashville–based singer/songwriter, recording artist, stage actress, producer, and vocal and performance coach, who has worked as a background vocalist for recording artists Joe Cocker and Luis Miguel, and toured as lead vocalist with Big Brother and the Holding Company. She has played Janis Joplin in the musical Love, Janis and was the alternate lead on Broadway in the rock musical, A Night With Janis Joplin. She was also a vocal and performance instructor at Los Angeles College of Music. Both her music and vocals have been used in a variety of films, TV shows, and video games. She currently lives in the Nashville area and works as a singer, actor, producer and vocal coach.
Beginnings
She grew up in a musical home and was very involved in her church's music program. She began studying classical voice at the age of 15 and later studied at University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music. She moved to the Los Angeles area and began performing, modeling and doing commercial vocal work in the late 1980s. After 3 decades of building a successful career in Los Angeles, she relocated to Nashville in 2021, where she is currently a recording artist, actor and session singer.
Solo recordings
Clanton released her first independent solo CD entitled Seeing Red in 1996.
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