Alana Grier

Alana is a songwriter, vocalist, bass player and dancer. With musical influences like Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, Joan Armitrading, Nanci Griffith, Carlos Jobeem, Bill Whithers, James Taylor, Rickie Lee Jones, Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley (to name a few), she has a rather eclectic sound.

When she was young, she studied and performed dance at several contemporary dance schools. Leaving that world behind, she traveled from Australia, to Europe and across the US, she was exposed to new forms of dance and started playing music and writing her first songs. She writes from a wealth of life experience that ranges from teenage homelessness and raising her five children as a single mother to more common inspirations like falling in and out of love.

Looking for a way to profit from her music career and have it work for her family, she started her own record label, Embraced In Grace. It’s a label designed to support other artists who are trying to make a positive impact through music. She’s hoping to create a successful record label with a reputation for social responsibility, fairness with artists and family atmosphere, focussing on putting out music with a conscious message.

Embraced In Grace is a label dedicated to serving artists and contributing to organizations that are effective in solving humanities problems. Locally and globally, we are concerned with getting clean water to everyone as well as supporting other basic human rights such as food, shelter, education for peace, health, and a healthy environment. She plans on collaborating with non-profit organizations that are making the most effective impact in these areas with fund-raising concerts as well as giving 10% of profits earned towards local and global solutions both socially and ecologically”.

Record label owner, songwriter and music publisher, Alana is doing it all, marketing, web design, and recording in her home studio. To start, she plans to record a strong single with a music producer who takes her music to the next level and make a great video.

Having recently moved to Albuquerque from Hawaii, she’s just beginning to step out into the local music scene. She is currently playing around the Albuquerque area with Geoffrey Escandon on electric guitar and Charles Avery on the doumbek. The trio are playing their unique arrangements of jazz standards, other popular songs and originals written by Alana.

“It’s a dream come true to play with talented musicians who are such a joy to have in mine and my children’s lives. After all I’ve been through to support my family, I really appreciate the opportunity to do what I love and it feels like Albuquerque is the right community to plant my musical roots in and grow from here”.