“The challenge of the song is to not scare America. I’m changing ‘Amazing Grace,’ everybody. Fair warning.”
So said Team Kelly’s 16-year-old blues ingenue, Sarah Grace, on Monday’s top 10 episode of The Voice. Religious songs usually are popular on The Voice — last week, when Kymberli Joye did Tasha Cobbs’s “Break Every Chain,” she was the top-charting contestant on iTunes — but most contestants don’t take as many creative liberties as Sarah did this week. Besides playing “dirty” trumpet, Sarah also sang the traditional hymn with the “House of the Rising Sun” production under it — basically, she did a skronky, Blind Boys of Alabama-inspired “Amazing Grace”/”Rising Sun” mashup.
“This idea is the coolest idea that anyone I ever worked with on The Voice has ever come to the table with,” said Sarah’s coach, Kelly Clarkson.
“This is an insanely cool version of ‘Amazing Grace.’ It’s my favorite I’ve ever heard.
Sarah Grace & The Soul is a band comprised of sisters Sarah Grace (Vocals, Keys), Reagan (Drums), and Daniel (Bass), and Erich (Guitar). They hail from Houston, TX where they have grown up and flourished in the rich Blues, Rock and Soul scene.
Drawing from many influences, they combine powerful vocals and rootsy musicianship to create their own original sound. Already veterans of the local and regional scene they have been recognized as one of the “Top Ten Bands Under 21” in Houston as well as multiple representatives of Houston in the International Blues Challenge, Youth Showcase in Memphis, TN. 2018, finds them hard at work in the Studio recording their debut CD featuring all original music.