Hello, thanks for listening to the Learning English Conversations podcast.

This next episode is part of our music series, My Song, My Home, where we learn language from a different song each week.

In each episode, we visit a different city and meet a new musician.

It's a great way to practice listening to real English speakers and

you'll learn lots of English expressions from the music in the programme. We hope you enjoy it.

It's got such a musical history, the city. Obviously, you've got the Beatles, but there are

so many other amazing bands that have come from here, there's so much music coming out of Liverpool.

We're in an old library with wooden shelves full of old books and huge bright windows

in the centre of Liverpool, a city in the north-west of England.

My name is Grace Chloe. I am a singer and pianist and songwriter.

Like Grace says, Liverpool is probably most famous for being the home of the rock band The Beatles, who became famous in the 1960s.

But there's a lot more to see.

Welcome to My Song, My Home.

In this podcast, we visit a different place in each episode and meet a musician that lives there.

Today, Grace will explain why she decided to become a musician and tell us about living in Liverpool.

We'll also learn some vocabulary from her music later in the programme.

Find a transcript of this episode to read along on our website, BBC learning English.com.

Grace has always had an interest in music.

I knew like every word to every song that was on the radio,

all the sort of old songs and the news songs I'd always be singing along.

If we went to a restaurant, I'd sit there with my headphones in singing out loud,

annoying people at other tables. Grace has been singing as're great inside we did so straight up talking. Grace has been singing

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