My name is Kyle Lacy, and I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. I have made New York City my home for 12 years now, and I can’t think of any other place I’d rather live and work. As an artist I have released two studio albums of original music: “The Road to Tomorrow” (2020) and “Pleasurecraft” (2023). I am also the bandleader for the Grammy-nominated group Harlem Gospel Travelers.

 

For high school, I attended DeKalb School of the Arts in Atlanta, GA, and that is where I began to learn the craft of playing music & performing. I did musicals and sang in choir, acted in plays, wrote music for my own bands and helped to organize Fringe activities around the school. My teachers were professionals in the Arts who encouraged me to pursue a professional artistic career and with that in mind, I majored in Musical Theatre and attained a Bachelor’s of Music from Oklahoma City University.  

 

I came to New York and began auditioning and writing my own music. In musical theatre I have worked for Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse, and The Muny (in “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story”) as well as Alhambra Theatre and Arts Center of Coastal Carolina (in “Pump Boys and Dinettes”). In 2014, I released my first original song “Playing in My Head”, followed by a music video for another original in 2016, “One Trick Pony.” These songs were heavily inspired by rockabilly and blues music that I grew up loving as a kid: The Stray Cats, JD McPherson, Chuck Berry. 

 

From 2017-2019 I toured full time with a rockabilly band, playing small clubs and festivals around the country, such as Viva Las Vegas 2019. it was time to step into my own name as a singer & songwriter, so I partnered with Dala Records to release my first solo album. “The Road to Tomorrow” entered the world on February 14, 2020. My musical influences are wide ranging and included soul cats like Otis Redding and Lake Street Dive, as well as jazz cats like Les McCann and Eddie Harris.

 

During and after the pandemic, I started writing songs for a new project. My band and I attained residencies at clubs around NYC and workshopped our new material, which became our new album “Pleasurecraft” - the first album of original music under my own name that I have entirely self-produced. It features 9 original songs. The idea behind the album was to take the sounds of 80’s pop-soul (George Michael, Luther Vandross, the Pointer Sisters) and to make a danceable record that evoked those feelings of love and joy while sounding entirely new. 

 

I also own my own label, Lacy Records, and I am proud to have built a great roster of artists, including Mel and the Tall Boys, Ifedayo, Gibson Malone, Chris Q. Murphy and the Automat, and Warren Malone. When I’m not performing I’m likely spending time with my partner Amanda, a talented actress, singer & performer, cooking some of the southern dishes I grew up with, watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, or explaining the NYC Subway track maps (someone has to do it). 

 

I remain grateful as ever, for your presence, support, and listening ears.