Fanny Grace   -  Biography

From a very young age, Paul Reeves was passionate about music, writing and recording his songs and selling CDs and cassettes as he traveled around the U.S. with various bands. In 1994, he recorded a demo with a friend, vocalist Carmen Mejia. That demo became the first of five independently produced and released albums by Fanny Grace, as the duo came to be known. (Reeves serves as guitarist and principal songwriter.) Also in 1994, they decided it was time to leave Los Angeles for a more grounded environment. They picked a random midpoint on the U.S. map and showed up in Oklahoma City a few days later. From their "home base on the prairie," they traveled from coast to coast, playing street corners and bookstores by day and clubs and coffee houses by night.

In 1995, they performed in front of 150,000 people and on national television at a N.O.W. rally in Washington D.C. Later that year and into the next, they opened for the Allman Brothers Band, .38 Special, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Eddie Money while continuing to headline on the L.A. club scene. After several days of busking in 1997, they were given a set at a Lilith Fair concert in Spokane, Wash.

Fanny Grace won L.A. country station KZLA's most promising new unsigned artist of 2002 honor in a contest judged by David Foster and Clint Black. Since then, they have performed on the same bill as Kenny Chesney, Chris Cagle, Willie Nelson and Lonestar, among many others. Their songs have also appeared on the TV series Dawson's Creek, Felicity and The Shield, as well as Showtime's Resurrection Boulevard. The duo released the album 321 Broadway in 2004.

Reeves was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Mejia was born in San Fernando, Calif. They live in Nashville.