A New York Evening With Stella Cole

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome rising artist Stella Cole to The Greene Space in NYC to celebrate her latest project, It’s Magic, with a discussion about her creative process, career, and more, followed by a special live performance.

This event is part of the GRAMMY Museum’s New York City program series, which brings the Museum’s renowned education and public programs to the city. “A New York Evening With…” is generously supported by the Dawn and Brian Hoesterey Family Foundation. 

ABOUT STELLA COLE

Looking at the career of Stella Cole—whose third release, It’s Magic, is just about to be released by Decca Records US—you might perceive a kind of disconnect, as Marshall McLuhan would say, between the medium and her message. McLuhan, who died in 1980, had never heard of the internet, YouTube, or music streaming platforms—and neither did the vast majority of songwriters whose work she champions: Frank Loesser, Meredith Willson, Ray Noble, Sammy Cahn, or Jimmy Van Heusen.

Likewise, none of the great artists whose legacy she honors—like Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, or Rosemary Clooney—would know what it meant to “go viral.” Yet that’s exactly how Stella Cole first got noticed by the music industry and, more importantly, by the larger world beyond: by performing her own interpretations of classic American popular standards and using the internet to share them.

A closer look reveals that these iconic artists were no less eager to embrace new media. Long-playing recordings, television, stereophonic sound—these were all new technologies in the 1940s and ’50s. The idea of bringing classic American songs to new platforms didn’t begin with Stella, but she’s accomplished it more successfully than virtually any other artist working today.

Born in a small town in Illinois in 1999, Stella comes naturally to her repertoire—the material chose her as much as she chose it. “I grew up on old movie musicals,” she remembers. “When I was two years old, my parents sat me down in front of the TV and turned on the VHS of The Wizard of Oz. I loved it so much that after that, I asked them if I could watch it every single day for over a year. I’ve just been obsessed with that movie my whole life, and because of it, I started singing before I could even talk.”

“It IS Magic” – The TODAY Show’s Al Roker

“A JazzTok juggernaut” – ELLE

“Introducing younger generations to a timeless genre of music” – The Hollywood Reporter

“Powerhouse vocalist” – People Magazine

Check-In: 6:30pm

Show Time: 7:30pm

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