Tara Macri Asks “Who Is Your Grace?” With Emotionally Cinematic New Single

July 31, 2026 News

There’s a certain kind of person everyone carries with them — someone who shaped who they became, whether that person is still around or not. That idea sits at the centre of Tara Macri’s new single, “Grace,” arriving Friday, July 31, alongside a companion music video shot in New York.

Rather than writing another song built around heartbreak or loss, Macri takes on something broader and, arguably, harder to capture: the people who leave a permanent mark on us, whether we knew them for years or only briefly. “Grace” doesn’t dwell in grief so much as it sits with the idea that connection outlasts distance, absence, or even death. The song leaves listeners with one central question to sit with long after it ends — who is your Grace?

Where the Song Started

Macri has said the song began quietly, at her piano, during a period when she found herself wondering whether someone she deeply missed could somehow let her know they were okay. That personal starting point shifted as the writing process continued, growing from a single specific memory into something far more universal.

“I realized we all have those people,” Macri said. “The ones who shape us, stay with us, and become part of who we are.”

That shift, from one person’s private loss to a shared human experience, is what gives “Grace” its emotional pull. It doesn’t ask listeners to relate to a specific story so much as it hands them the space to think of their own.

A Career Built Across Stages and Screens

Macri arrives at this release with a résumé that spans far more than music. A Billboard-charting singer-songwriter, she’s also an award-winning actress and Broadway performer, with stage credits including “Hairspray,” “Jersey Boys,” and “The First Wives Club.” She’s also lent her voice to animation, appearing in DreamWorks’ “Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll.” Across all of it, though, Macri has pointed to songwriting as the place where she tells her own story most directly, rather than someone else’s character.

The Team Behind the Sound

“Grace” was produced by Jordan “AliasOne” Winfield and mixed by five-time GRAMMY-winning engineer Chris Lord-Alge, a pairing that shows in the finished track. The song builds from a stripped-down piano melody into a fuller, cinematic pop arrangement — the kind of production that works equally well through headphones, in a film’s closing scene, or in a quiet moment of reflection.

A Journey Through New York, on Screen

The single’s video, filmed on location in New York by directors Julia Baylis and Sam Guest, extends the song’s themes visually rather than illustrating them literally. According to the filmmakers, the video follows a group of strangers, initially disconnected from one another, who find themselves drawn together through a single shared, almost dreamlike moment on a city street — the kind of fleeting connection that happens constantly among strangers passing each other, usually unnoticed.

That visual concept mirrors the song’s emotional core directly: connection doesn’t require permanence to matter, and the people who briefly cross our path can still leave something behind.

Why “Grace” Resonates

What makes “Grace” land isn’t a dramatic narrative twist or an obvious hook — it’s the honesty of the question at its centre. Instead of framing loss or distance as something purely painful, Macri’s song reframes it as evidence of connection that never fully disappears. It’s a theme most listeners will recognise instantly, even if they’ve never put words to it themselves.

“Grace” is out everywhere Friday, July 31.