Graciela was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and since she was little has been surrounded by pencils and colors. At the age of fourteen she started a deeper exploration into the world of painting. She studied under Sonia Bottaioli for several years in Uruguay and grew creatively as she grew up.

In 1996 she was selected by the government of Uruguay to paint over thirty reproductions of paintings by the famous Uruguayan artist, Pedro Figari.

Perrone has studied under Janice "Bug" Uttde and Joan Judah and has been a great success at Louisville's nationally renowned St. James Art Fair. Her paintings have also been featured at the Kentucky Center for the Arts and are on exhibit in Caffé Classico in Louisville.

In 1995, Perrone emigrated to the United States where her continued quest to develop her art guided her to discover flamenco dancing. Flamenco dancing would become her most valuable source of inspiration. She eventually settled in Louisville, KY where she joined the Ballet Español. Ballet Español was a flamenco company directed by the acclaimed dancer, Mara Maldonado who single handedly brought flamenco to Louisville. Perrone taught and danced in the ballet for several years and has studied flamenco in Spain with Juan Parra. Graciela has studied in Granada, Carmen de las cuevas school, in Cadiz with Concha Baras, in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera.  

In 2007, coming back from Bilbao, Cadiz, Granada and Madrid, Spain, where she spent some days with Sara Baras and her company she realized more than ever the importance of the emotion in this art form, she wanted to explore that through her paintings, her dance, and the Video Art.

She wants for her paintings, dance and video art  to be a transformation for anybody that sees them. Sara Baras it's been such a great inspiration.  Baras, a legend in her native Spain , is ‘renowned for her thunderous footwork, commanding presence and sophisticated elegance’. The London Independent said of her live show: “…it’s Baras the crowd have come for…Sleek as a sphinx, fierce as an amazon, she motors through a martinete, drilling her heels like power tools while scything the air with her arms...”  

"When I dance I paint, when I paint I dance " (Graciela Perrone)

Seeing Graciela Perrone dance and sing her flamenco is a truly evocative experience. Her voice is majestically authentic and her body is aggressively graceful when dancing, the physical embodiment of the music it represents. Her music is not her only love; in fact she draws off it for her first love, painting. Bold and compelling, her oil paintings capture the expressions and movement of flamenco with passion. She has found a way to take these dramatically different art forms and blend them together as if they were always meant to coexist. "When I paint, the oil and the flamenco dance eclipse together transforming passions into other passions", Graciela said.  

Graciela has been performing  in several places Caffé Classico, Jazz factory, with the  Louisville orchestra, western university in Kentucky,, University of Louisville, Sand Diego Symphony, Louisville and Cincinnati opera, Conrad hotel in Punta del Este , Uruguay,  the Consulate of Uruguay in Chicago, representing her country, she has been performing, with Tim Rise (saxophonist of the rolling Stones) and his Rolling Stones Project, in Louisville KY and Chicago. She performed with Woodsongs old time radio hour. She has songs of her cd "Graciela" in two movies, "Keep your distance", directed by Stu Pollard and "Higher Ground", a mountain Culture film.

  
"The music started and she rose to dance, something changed within her that was at once fantastical and hyper-real, in the finest tradition of Latin art. Possessed by Lorca's  death-defying demon , she became the flesh of the music, the embodiment of its rhythms and phrasings. I can't  explain the metamorphosis, but I can offer you the words of the Nigerian writer, Ben Okri, from "Beyond Words", his essay on flamenco:

While she danced she became the dream of the freest and most creative people we had always wanted  to be, in whatever its we do. she was the sea we never ran away to, the spirit of wordless self-overcoming we never quite embrace... you can say in her own way, and in that moment, that she too was a dancer of god."

                                                                                                                      Dianne April