Grace Chatto

Chatto was born and grew up in Crouch End, North London, later relocated to Shoreditch, before moving back to Crouch Hill, Crouch End. Chatto attended Latymer School and Westminster School, as well as the Royal Academy of Music. She studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge. ==Career==

Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson met while studying as undergraduates at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. 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. ==Personal life==

Chatto is the daughter of musician Ricky Chatto, a cello player for Massive Violins and Ruth Chatto. Chatto endorsed the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election. Chatto speaks Russian fluently. Chatto is a supporter of Premier League football club Arsenal. == Awards and achievements ==

, Sweden (2014) Clean Bandit's 2010 single "Mozart's House" reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart when re-released in 2013. 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. 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 for the track "Rather Be" and was nominated for two Brit Awards in 2015 and 2017. 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. 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. == Other projects ==

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. Chatto has produced and directed videos with Jack Patterson since the band's inception. Chatto, with her father, formed a band of singing cellists called the Massive Violins, with whom she still performs. 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. The single debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download Chart. ==Discography==