Grace Sharington

Grace Sharington is an American songwriter, recording artist, model, host, and business woman. After co-writing a pair of songs for The Scorpions, she founded the band Dremana and has modeled for Playboy magazine.
Biography
Sharington was born on November 21, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, and was adopted as the youngest child of Dorothy and Allan Gilbertson, the owners of a family home-improvement business. She competed in the 1991 Miss Iowa pageant under the name of Ami Linn Gilbertson and placed as 1st runner-up. She soon withdrew from Mt. Mercy College and moved to Chicago to focus on her modeling career, signing with Elite Model Management. During this time, she met Rieckermann Ralph Riecermann, the bass player of The Scorpions. Over the next two years, Sharington contributed the lyrics and vocal melodies to their songs "Just One You" and "Emerald Nights."
This songwriting experience eventually brought her back to Chicago, where she worked as a songwriter and recording artist for Dead Dog Records, Tanglewood Studios, and ID Productions.
In 1997, she and then-boyfriend Andre "Spam" Klizentis formed the band Dremana. They recorded their self-titled debut CD and the line-up of the band became: Ziggy (drums), J.P. (bass), Karl Geckler (guitar), Jamie Principle (programming), Spam (guitar), and Sharington (vocals). Eventually drummer Ziggy was replaced by Greg York and bass player J.P. by Jason Habbley. Dremana's songs "Mandarin Martini" and "The Way I Want You" reached the #6 and #20 positions on XM Radio's most played unsigned bands.
Other pursuits
Playboy model
While shooting with Dremana, the photographer asked if he could submit the pictures to Playboy. Sharington agreed and she appeared in two Playboy newsstand specials: "Sexy Girls Next Door" (1999) and "Natural Beauties" (2001).
Host
After moving to Austin, Texas, Sharington attended and graduated from CSB Broadcasting School in 2008 and is currently scheduled to host this year's 2010 SXSW Austin Lifestyle podcast.
Dremana Productions, Inc.
Sharington is the co-owner of Dremana Productions, which originated as a recording studio in Chicago in 2000. It has grown into a multi-media company that specializes in high web design, branding, and corporate imaging.
Agent
In 2007, Sharington began traveling to Shanghai, China to work with Perfect Media (Pokeman, Oragami Warriors, Porroro) to help write a television theme song that would be fitting to a young Western audience. Through this process, she was introduced to BesTVV and The Shanghai Media Group where she now works as an independent agent by submitting American musical acts for programming consideration.

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