Harrison Candelario

Recording Academy™ member since 2024, Harrison Candelario is a DownBeat™ award-winning singer-songwriter, recording artist, jazz, pop, and R&B vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York, New York.

Harrison was named one of the New York State School Music Association's Songwriters of the Year in '23 for his original song, "What Did I Do?" and was a 2023 New York State Vocal Jazz All-State soloist. He is also the recipient of the Patricia Wilde Music Scholarship and the GRAMMY™ Museum's Quinn Coleman Scholarship. Harrison has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, and also toured internationally in France, Switzerland, and Monaco.

He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Jazz Performance at the Eastman School of Music under Recording GRAMMY™ award-winning jazz vocalist and band leader Sara Gazarek.

Harrison recently released his first widely released original vocal track, "Misunderstood," on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.