Soulful songstress, Astra Kelly, strings sentences together that connect as something universal. Her music is a rich fusion of her Chicago roots in acid jazz, funk, and soul, merged with acoustic rock and folk elements.Many times armed with only an acoustic guitar, her delivery is an intensly powerful expression of equal parts joy and pain, balance and struggle.

She has toured extensively over the years as a solo performer and with other various projects all throughout Chicago and surrounding areas, as well as the western and southern states. In 2001, she completed a fourteen month, 85,000 mile tour that ended when she skidded on some black ice on the way to a gig in Colorado. Her tour van rolled and she landed upside down on a set of train tracks. In the light of the full moon, her posters and CDs scattered along the highway, she got her and her guitar to safety just in time to watch a train charge down the tracks and crash into her van. This symbolic moment on her musical path launched her into a new wave of creativity and she has emerged with strong new material for these curious times.

She has released three records on her own label and is presently promoting a new EP while working on the completion of the album and garnering support for its release.