Cady Groves (July 30, 1989 – May 2, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter from Marlow, Oklahoma.
Cady Groves was born to Carol Pettit and Larry Groves and was the youngest of seven. After her parents divorced, she would turn on Christina Aguilera’s “Genie In A Bottle” and sing along from the inside of her closet, because she didn’t want any of her family members to hear her attempts to match Christina. One day, when her mother was outside cleaning the family’s pool in the backyard, Cady marched outside and told her mother she was going to be the next Britney Spears.
Cady graduated from high school when she was 16, and although she was really interested in song writing, her family discouraged her from making music a career, and she instead attended and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cady Groves was inspired to follow her dreams after the death of her brother, and began focusing on her song writing, initially not intending to sign but to present her work to other artists to record. But when a session vocalist failed to show up after Cady Groves booked time to record demos of her latest batch of songs, she sang them herself with the encouragement of the engineers on the session, and the material developed into Cady Groves’ first independent EP “A Month of Sundays” released in 2009. “The Life of a Pirate”, another EP followed in 2010, and as her social media pages began attracting impressive traffic, several major record labels began approaching her.
In 2010, Cady Groves signed with RCA, and set out on her first nationwide concert tour, opening a package show that featured Good Charlotte, Third Eye Blind, and All Time Low.
RCA paired Cady with several producers and songwriters, including Savan Kotecha, Carl Falk and Kristian Lundin, as she began work on her first major-label album. The song “Oh Darling” spent five weeks on the Billboard Rock Digital Songs Chart and peaked at number 36. In 2011, Cady Groves was featured on the single “You and I” by Secondhand Serenade and “All That I Need Is You” by Andrew de Torres.
Groves eventually left RCA and signed with New York-based independent label Vel Records, where the focus shifted to her writing music that she was truly passionate about. In May 2015, Cady Groves returned with a new self-released single and video for the song “Crying Game”, a dark, personal song inspired by her tumultuous childhood and strained family relationships. Cady Groves released her Vel Records debut EP “Dreams” for free download in October 2015, and it has been downloaded over 100,000 times via SoundCloud. A music video for the title track premiered at FUSE.tv in October 2015, and also saw success at CMT and MTV. Shortly after, Cady Groves embarked on a 30-market High School Nation Tour, where she performed for over 50,000 high school students.
Cady Groves mentioned on several occasions that she had a very rough childhood, her brother Casey Groves died on October 23, 2007, at the age of 28, and her brother Kelly Groves died on March 23, 2014, also 28 years old. In August 2014, Cady Groves released a song she wrote about Kelly entitled “Bring Back the Sun”.
Cady Groves died on May 2, 2020, at the age of 30. Her death was reported as being due to unspecified natural causes and that self-harm and foul play were ruled out.
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