Grace Chatto

Chatto was born in North London^[1] and grew up in Crouch End, later relocating to Shoreditch.^[3] She attended Latymer School^[4] and Westminster School,^[5] as well as the Royal Academy of Music. She studied Modern Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Grace Chatto and Jack Patterson met while studying as undergraduates at Jesus College, Cambridge.^[6] 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.^[5]

The band's name, Clean Bandit, comes from a translation of a Russian phrase from Chatto's friend, Maria Lisogorskaya; the meaning is similar to the English phrase "complete bastard", though Patterson later stated that it is actually a more affectionate term similar to "utter rascal".^[7][8]

Chatto endorsed the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.^[9]

Chatto has a degree in Russian literature, language and history.^[10]

Clean Bandit's 2010 single "Mozart's House" reached number 17 on the UK Singles Chart when re-released in 2013.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[11] 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^[12] for the track "Rather Be" and was nominated for two Brit Awards in 2015 and 2017.^[13]

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.^[14] 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.^[15]

Chatto and Jack Patterson formed their own film production company, Cleanfilm, to make music videos for themselves and other artists.^[16] Chatto has produced and directed videos with Jack Patterson since the band's inception.

Chatto, with her father Ricky, formed a band of singing cellists called the Massive Violins, with whom she still performs.

On 10 November 2014, Chatto, along with Neil Amin-Smith was part of Band Aid 30^[17] and featured on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" charity single to raise money towards the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.^[18]

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.^[19] The single debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart^[20] and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download Chart.^[21]

Charity singles

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Year	Title	Peak chart positions	Certifications	Notes
		UK
2014	"Do They Know It's Christmas?" (as part of Band Aid 30)[22]	1	BPI: Gold[23]	To raise money for the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.[24]
2020	"Stop Crying Your Heart Out" (as part of BBC Radio 2's Allstars)[25]	7		To support BBC Children in Need's 2020 appeal.[26]

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