Press Kit
“HER UNIQUE MUSICAL STYLE- IS SOMETIMES WRY, SOMETIMES PUCKISH, SOMETIMES RAW, HER LYRICS POIGNANT AND CRAMMED WITH HER LIVED TRUTHS.”
-KC STUDIO
"FEARLESS IN ITS VULNERABILITY, AND ABLE TO PULL DISPARATE MUSICAL GENRES INTO A COHESIVE WHOLE WITHOUT ARTIFICE."
-KC METROPOLIS
“AN EXQUISITE BEAT MAKER, WITH AN INQUISITIVE EAR AND ASTUTE FACILITY WITH A COMPLICATED SYNTH SET UP OF KEYBOARD, PERCUSSION, VOICE, AND COMPUTER.”
-KC STUDIO
SHORT BIO
Stacy Busch is a composer/performer who utilizes her voice with electronics to build unique sound worlds. Her work is a meeting point between art pop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter.
Stacy is a 2022 OneBeat Virtual Fellow for Global Music Leaders and she received the 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Award. Stacy has received grants from Mid America Arts Alliance, Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund, ArtsKC, ArtSounds, Charlotte Street Foundation and the UMKC Women's Council. Stacy received her MM in composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and her BM in composition from Western Michigan University.
AWARDS & Achievements
2023 NEA/MAAA Artistic Innovations Grant Recipient
2023 Pinnacle Prize Finalist
2022 OneBeat Virtual International Fellow for Global Music Leaders
2022 ArtHouse Holland Resident
2020 ArtsKC Award Ceremony Featured Performer
2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Award
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TOP SONGS: Art Pop
All music composed, produced and performed by Stacy Busch
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All music composed, produced and performed by Stacy Busch