“I’m a neurodiverse phoenix rising — here to show that transformation is possible, resilience is real, and laughter is medicine.”
Tré Taylor
Born in Marin County and raised amid the rolling vineyards of Sonoma County, California, she first came into this world as Tracy Lyn Grigonis, but found her artistic wings as Tré Taylor — a name affectionately adopted for being “three times as sparkly.”
She grew up in the heart of wine country during the wild and wondrous 1970s and ’80s — an era of music, movement, and revolution—shaping her into both a rebel and a romantic. Rooted in the rhythms of the land and the spirit of change — equal parts tenderness and tenacity, blending grace, grit, and a lifelong devotion to song.
Tré Taylor is a singer, comedian, and spiritual multimedia artist whose roots run deep in gospel, Americana, jazz, and blues. Once dubbed “the white Etta James” for her soul-rich, torch-song delivery, she’s spent a lifetime transforming sacred rage, humor, and heartbreak into performances that make audiences weep, laugh, and heal all at once.
With a southern-souled heart and a New Orleans groove, Tré has always been a storyteller at her core — blending rhythm, truth, and laughter into something unmistakably her own. After decades on stage as a beloved jazz and Americana vocalist, she’s stepping into a bold new era as an original artist — one whose voice carries both the wisdom of experience and the wonder of reinvention. Ever-evolving, she continues to create and collaborate across genres and generations, crafting songs that celebrate the full, beautiful mess of being human.
Alongside her music, Tré built a serious career as a corporate event planner and executive assistant during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and later in San Francisco’s biotech sector. She worked behind the scenes with leadership teams, helping develop cutting-edge technologies in travel health medicine and research. But like many high-achieving professionals, she was consumed by hustle culture—working morning to midnight at her day job and nights and weekends on her own entrepreneurial dreams until her body broke down and kept her down.
She once called it “balance,” but let’s be real—it was burnout dressed in ambition. She worked across time zones, taking calls at 2 a.m., running on caffeine, adrenaline, and fear of losing everything she’d built. She loved her work—the teams, the purpose—but she loved it at her own expense. Over time, her body began to revolt: blackouts, heart attack symptoms, and total collapse. Her nervous system said what her lips wouldn’t: No more.
That crash became her awakening. Healing wasn’t optional—it was survival with a soul. She began the long climb back, learning to listen to her body, to slow down, to exist without the constant demand to produce or prove. Now, living simply and creatively, she’s rebuilding from the inside out—using her art, her humor, and her pain as tools for connection.
Her dream isn’t just to heal herself anymore—it’s to create sanctuaries for others like her: the neurodiverse, the sensitive, the misfits and mystics. A place where artists can park their vans, pitch their tents, share a meal, a song, a story, and remember what it feels like to belong. This isn’t about escaping the world—it’s about re-imagining it. One song, one soul, one gathering at a time.
What she discovered in that crucible was the key that had been hidden her whole life: neurodiversity. Late-diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, she finally understood why she always felt “different,” why she had lived with secret shame, and why she had kept her deepest gifts hidden. Rather than a deficit, she began to recognize her sensitivity, intuition, and creative problem-solving as extraordinary strengths — the very qualities that allowed her to survive, adapt, and ultimately thrive.
Today, Tré embraces her neurodiversity not as a mask to hide, but as a creative superpower. She writes music, comedy, and teaches deep empowering wisdom through stories, with the help of AI as an accessibility tool — not as a replacement for her voice, but as a bridge that helps her put into words and songs what once lived only inside.
She creates original work that blends jazz roots with electronic, meditative, and spiritual influences, and shares comedic characters, recipes, and reflections on her YouTube channel and blog.
Her work speaks directly to those struggling with anxiety, depression, burnout, and survival in today’s cutthroat, ever-changing world.
Through her own journey — from corporate boardrooms to art cars, from chronic pain to healing, from masking to authenticity — Tré offers both humor and hope. She reminds us that life may never be perfect, but with love, music, food, art, and community, it can still be deliciously fun.
This is the Gratitude Tour: a journey to uplift, to connect, and to celebrate the weird, the creative, and the brave.
Tré stands today at a threshold: her health reclaimed, her creativity overflowing, and her spirit awakened in ways she never expected. The work of survival has given way to the art of becoming — and now she is focused on building a future rooted in health, wealth, and love.
Where she will put down roots is still unfolding. It may be in California, or beyond, but the journey itself is part of the story — a step into the great unknown with faith, humor, and open hands. Along the way, she hopes to partner in both business and love, weaving together music, comedy, healing, and community into something larger than herself.
For now, Tré invites you to keep in touch: follow her writing, her music, her shows, and her Gratitude Tour.
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💛 Shine on, Sacred Weirdos ✨
✨ Additional Biography
In 2019, while she was still recovering from multiple surgeries and finding her way back to singing, award-winning writer Jean Bartlett interviewed Tré for a nine-page biography. Jean captured her journey as a professional jazz vocalist and storyteller at a time when she was still navigating pain, healing, and transformation. Her words reflect the spirit of a woman who refused to give up on music, laughter, or life itself.
