2025 Competition Entry:
We Are Enough by Tracey Yarad
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Pop
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Tracey Yarad voice, Rhodes, Tony Mason, drums, Luca Benedetti, guitar, Ken Rich, bass
Description
We Are Enough is a song I wrote to include in a musical memoir I wrote, it’s a song of young love, of working together in a romantic partnership and how aligned a couple can be and in tune with each other. I perform it live in my one-way-show “all These Pretty Things’
Bio
Australia-born, New York-based Tracey Yarad is a pianist and singer-songwriter with jazz sensibilities. Her career has taken her from touring Australia with her original music and having a Top 40 single in the ’90s, to a seven-year residency singing in 5-star hotels in Japan, to running her own music school for 18 years in the Blue Mountains of Australia, to New York.
Blessed with a soulful, incredibly beautiful instrument and a talent for composing heartfelt and evocative songs, Tracey has produced multiple projects since relocating to New York City, performing at the 55 Bar, Soapbox Gallery, the Bitter End, Birdland, among others. She has collaborated with Grammy-nominated Chilean vocal star Claudia Acuna, Grammy-winning Jon Cowherd and avant garde saxophonist Dave Binney. Her duo performance with pianist Jim Ridl, ‘Lost in Translation’ (featuring stories and songs from her seven years as a hotel singer in Japan) was flagged by the New Yorker’s award-winning journalist Steve Futterman, who wrote, “If demanding experience leads to hard-won wisdom, Yarad and Ridl will have much to impart.”
In 2024 she took her her one-woman-show All These Pretty Things to the Edinburgh Fringe, a musical memoir based on her own experience of her 23 year marriage and it’s shocking demise. The show has received rave reviews and is touring extensivley in Australia and the UK in 2025. “Breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment, and the restorative power of music and love.” – Broadway World
As part of her re-invention in her new life in NYC she has added jazz photographer to her list of professional accomplishments, and is photographer of choice for many of New York’s leading jazz musicians. Her work has appeared in Downbeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
Blessed with a soulful, incredibly beautiful instrument and a talent for composing heartfelt and evocative songs, Tracey has produced multiple projects since relocating to New York City, performing at the 55 Bar, Soapbox Gallery, the Bitter End, Birdland, among others. She has collaborated with Grammy-nominated Chilean vocal star Claudia Acuna, Grammy-winning Jon Cowherd and avant garde saxophonist Dave Binney. Her duo performance with pianist Jim Ridl, ‘Lost in Translation’ (featuring stories and songs from her seven years as a hotel singer in Japan) was flagged by the New Yorker’s award-winning journalist Steve Futterman, who wrote, “If demanding experience leads to hard-won wisdom, Yarad and Ridl will have much to impart.”
In 2024 she took her her one-woman-show All These Pretty Things to the Edinburgh Fringe, a musical memoir based on her own experience of her 23 year marriage and it’s shocking demise. The show has received rave reviews and is touring extensivley in Australia and the UK in 2025. “Breathtakingly honest and gorgeously sung songs on the themes of loss and abandonment, and the restorative power of music and love.” – Broadway World
As part of her re-invention in her new life in NYC she has added jazz photographer to her list of professional accomplishments, and is photographer of choice for many of New York’s leading jazz musicians. Her work has appeared in Downbeat, Guitar Player, and Drum Scene magazines.
Lyrics
Song: We Are Enough
Music and lyrics by Tracey Yarad
SO GOOD TO BE HOME, BREATHING IN CLEAN AIR
& HUGGING EVERY TREE
GONNA KICK OFF OUR SHOES & RUN LIKE THE WIND INTO
CRYSTAL BLUE SEAS
ALL THE HIGH-RISE LIVING REALLY GOT TO ME
& I KNOW THAT IT GOT YOU TOO CAUSE I CAN SEE
FROM THE LOOK IN YOUR EYES I CAN SEE THAT
YOU ARE AS CONTENT AS I AM
JUST TO SMELL THE RAIN
AS IT FALLS ON THE GROUND
RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR OPEN DOORS
JUST TO WATCH THE FLOWERS
YOU ONCE IMAGINED
BLOOM IN OUR GARDEN
YOU’VE NOW PLANTED
WE PLACED AN AD IN THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE PAPER, SAYING
MUSIC LESSONS HERE
WATCHING OUR DREAMS MATERIALISING
RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
CAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS HAD THE SAME VISIONS
& WE’VE ALWAYS SHARED THE LOAD
NOW LOOK AT US SITTIN’ HERE IN OUR OWN LITTLE HOUSE
JUST LIKE THE ONE IN THE PAGES
FROM THE MAGAZINES
SITTING AT OUR TABLE EATING DINNER IN THE HALF LIGHT
FROM THE FIRE THAT’S BURNING IN OUR HEARTH
UNDERNEATH THE BLANKET OF THE MILKY WAY
IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
OF OUR LOVE
YOU FOR ME & ME FOR YOU
WE ARE ENOUGH
YES, WE ARE ENOUGH
Music and lyrics by Tracey Yarad
SO GOOD TO BE HOME, BREATHING IN CLEAN AIR
& HUGGING EVERY TREE
GONNA KICK OFF OUR SHOES & RUN LIKE THE WIND INTO
CRYSTAL BLUE SEAS
ALL THE HIGH-RISE LIVING REALLY GOT TO ME
& I KNOW THAT IT GOT YOU TOO CAUSE I CAN SEE
FROM THE LOOK IN YOUR EYES I CAN SEE THAT
YOU ARE AS CONTENT AS I AM
JUST TO SMELL THE RAIN
AS IT FALLS ON THE GROUND
RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR OPEN DOORS
JUST TO WATCH THE FLOWERS
YOU ONCE IMAGINED
BLOOM IN OUR GARDEN
YOU’VE NOW PLANTED
WE PLACED AN AD IN THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE PAPER, SAYING
MUSIC LESSONS HERE
WATCHING OUR DREAMS MATERIALISING
RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
CAUSE WE’VE ALWAYS HAD THE SAME VISIONS
& WE’VE ALWAYS SHARED THE LOAD
NOW LOOK AT US SITTIN’ HERE IN OUR OWN LITTLE HOUSE
JUST LIKE THE ONE IN THE PAGES
FROM THE MAGAZINES
SITTING AT OUR TABLE EATING DINNER IN THE HALF LIGHT
FROM THE FIRE THAT’S BURNING IN OUR HEARTH
UNDERNEATH THE BLANKET OF THE MILKY WAY
IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
OF OUR LOVE
YOU FOR ME & ME FOR YOU
WE ARE ENOUGH
YES, WE ARE ENOUGH
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