UK footballer/songwriter Chelcee Grimes finds her own popular voice

Sometimes people feel more comfortable behind the scenes in the entertainment world. Until recently, this has been the case with UK songwriter Chelcee Grimes. For the past ten years, she has written hit songs for stars such as Kylie Minogue, Dua Lipa, Kesha, Olly Murs, and a dozen other top performers.

“Kiss and Make Up” Dua Lipa

During this time, she was also playing British football with the Liverpool Ladies and a few other teams, most recently the Merseyrail Ladies.

Chelcee was born in Liverpool and began playing sports at age ten. Torn between her interest in music and sports, she was keen to incorporate both into her life. So, she did this all through high school. At eighteen, she signed a four-album deal with RCA Records but focused more on her growing songwriting career. Her first real hit was a Twenty Fourteen song, “Million Miles,” that she wrote for top-selling Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It premiered on Kylie’s twelfth studio album, Kiss Me Once.

Songwriting in Copenhagen with Cutfather

The success of this first public endeavor earned Chelcee an award for Best Up and Coming New Act at the Juice FM Style Awards, and she currently has more than forty writing credits under her belt.

In Twenty Sixteen, she wrote “11:11,” a song about her biological father, which was performed by South Korean singer Taeyeon.

This heavenly ballad is in Korean and received fifty million views on YouTube in its first year.

Then in Twenty Eighteen, having reached the ripe old age of twenty-six, Chelcee finally decided to step onto her performance stage. She began with a little tune called “Just Like That,” and the Internet went wild.

On the heels of that song, she wrote and performed a steady stream of singles under the RCA Records umbrella.

I Need a Night Out
Mother
Time to Talk
Girls

She also performs with other artists, and though she, as yet, has no album of her own, she is featured on theirs.

Wild with Jonas Blue
Looking to Love with Nick Talos

In addition to being a singer/songwriter, Chelcee is a noted, seasoned television presenter. She worked as a broadcaster for the BBC and COPA90 and covered the Twenty Nineteen FIFA Women’s World Cup for the BBC. And, since Twenty Nineteen, Chelcee has been the co-anchor of the Match of the Day spin-off show MOTDx, about the lifestyle of the Premier League, and has hosted her show on BBC Sport titled Chelcee Away. She’s also currently the ambassador for Barclays Women’s Super League.

Later, in Twenty Twenty-one, she commentated during the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom and presented several mini-series for BT Sport, including Para Football Adventures and Watch Us Rise. Throughout Twenty Twenty-two, she participated in several reality TV competition series such as Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof and The Games.

A proud lesbian, she is also the co-host of the BBC Sounds podcast Building Queertopia, which is about the lifestyle of LGBTQ celebrities. And if that’s not quite amazing enough, Chelcee also hosts her own personal Apple podcast called What We Coulda Been.

Here are a few extras to help you get to know this interesting artist and athlete.

In My Eyes Interview
The Guide Interview

Her newest single spawned from a date she once went on. “Tryna Not Fall in Love” is currently being released, and the video should be available soon.

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