Joyce Grant, great-great niece of ragtime composer Scott Joplin, is a mezzo-soprano jazz singer that has been singing in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 28 years. For the past decade she has been the lead vocalist for City Swing, a San Francisco based 18-piece band. As a singer and songwriter she has put lyrics to several Scott Joplin pieces, and a collection of original songs ranging in style, from Jazz to Blues to R&B.