Live Breaking News & Updates on Singer Songwriter Courtney Swain

$25,000 grants open new vistas for RI composers
Donita Naylor, The Providence Journal
© Kris Craig/The Providence Journal
Singer-songwriter Courtney Swain, lead vocalist for the indie rock band Bent Knee, plans to use her $25,000 fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation to experiment with distorting sounds. She is holding her baritone ukulele, one of many instruments she plays.
PROVIDENCE Right away, Storm Ford started spending the $25,000 that came with her fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation.  
A songwriter since the age of 10, the 21-year-old has long known that she needed the privacy, security and availability of a recording studio at home. 
Last May, at a live national contest on social media, her voice of liquid silk got her noticed by celebrities of the hip-hop world. T-Pain commented on air: You can tell that in that girl’s heart, she loves music. It’s something she can’t live without, he said afterward. ....

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