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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2018 18:52:40 GMT
In 2016, the aspiring musician decided to try her luck in the eleventh season of NBC’s popular talent competition, America’s Got Talent. Auditioning with her original song, I Don’t Know My Name, her performance ultimately led Judge Howie Mandel to press the golden buzzer, which brought her straight into the live quarterfinal round. Carried by her natural talents, she eventually won the competition with one final performance of I Don’t Know My Name during the finale, making her the second female winner in the show’s history. As the winner of the competition, VanderWaal was given a cash prize of $1 million, which she later used to buy two tree houses for herself and her sister.
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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2018 18:18:23 GMT
Eventually signing with Columbia Records in 2016, she released her debut EP, Perfectly Imperfect, later that year on December 2, 2016. Consisting of five tracks, it debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at number nine, with rave reviews from fans and critics.
Since then, the young singer has also released her debut studio album, Just the Beginning. Her first full-length project, it gave rise to twelve new songs including Darkness Keeps Chasing Me, Insane Sometimes, Escape My Mind, So Much More Than This, and Just a Crush, to name a few. An overall success, it went on to peak at number 22 on the Billboard Top 200.
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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2018 18:56:31 GMT
In addition to record sales, the teen has also embarked on a few concert tours, all of which would have presumably yielded her a significant amount of earnings.
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2018 4:43:44 GMT
Singer/songwriter Grace VanderWaal has released a new official video for “City Song” – watch HERE. The free-spirited visual was filmed in the East and West Village in New York City, was directed by Brian Petchers, and shows Grace taking in and celebrating all the hustle and bustle of the city. “City Song” is featured on Grace’s debut album Just the Beginning. The young star will continue her tour in support of the album next week. For a full list of tour dates, visit gracevanderwaal.com/tour. Over the past year, Grace won the Radio Disney Music Award for The Freshest – Best New Artist and the Teen Choice Award for Choice Next Big Thing, was tapped for Variety’s Youth Impact Report and Billboard’s 21 Under 21 for the second time, signed a modeling deal with IMG Models Worldwide, and was also honored with the ‘Rising Star’ award at the 2017 Billboard Women in Music ceremony.
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2018 18:34:21 GMT
Did you know that Paste owns the world’s largest collection of live music recordings? It’s true! And what’s even crazier, it’s all free—hundreds of thousands of exclusive songs, concerts and videos that you can listen to and watch right here at Paste.com, from Dizzy Gillespie to The Kinks to The Police to LCD Soundsystem. Every day, we’ll dig through the archive for the coolest recording we have from that date in history. Search and enjoy! On Jan. 23, 2017, 13-year-old Grace VanderWaal wandered into Paste Studio with a ukulele and a budding reputation as pop music’s next singing prodigy. Four months earlier, at age 12, she had won the 11th season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent by unleashing her stunning, smoky voice on a series of original songs. A debut EP, Perfectly Imperfect, quickly followed, collecting the AGT songs on one recording. At Paste, VanderWaal performed two of those songs, “Gossip Girl” and “I Don’t Know My Name,” with a wide-eyed frankness that somehow both accentuated and obfuscated her youth and inexperience. Her coup de grace, though, was a cover of Ed Sheeran’s “The A-Team,” which she played on the guitar for the very first time—that is, she was playing the guitar for the first time ever.
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