Greyson Michael Chance was born on August 16,1997 and is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
30 Facts About Greyson Chance
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Greyson Chance rose to national attention in 2010 with his performance of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at a grade school music festival which went viral on YouTube, gaining over 72million views.
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Greyson Chance released his second extended play, Somewhere Over My Head, in May 2016.
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In March 2019, Greyson Chance released his second full-length album, Portraits with the lead single, "Shut Up", followed by "Timekeeper".
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Greyson Chance was born August 16,1997, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and grew up as a Catholic in Edmond, Oklahoma.
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The youngest child of Scott and Lisa Greyson Chance, he has an older sister, Alexa, and an older brother, Tanner, both of whom make music.
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Greyson Chance began playing the piano at age eight and had several years of piano lessons before he first went viral.
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Greyson Chance's cover of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" was posted to YouTube on April 28,2010, and for almost two weeks, the video generated low views.
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Greyson Chance taped an interview and performance of "Paparazzi" in Los Angeles.
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That morning, Ryan Seacrest posted another link on Twitter, this time to the video of Greyson Chance appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Greyson Chance made a second appearance on Ellen, airing May 26,2010, on which he performed his original song "Broken Hearts", received a $10,000 award for winning Ellen's Wonderful Web of Wonderment contest, a brand new Yamaha piano, and was announced as DeGeneres's first signed artist to her new recording label eleveneleven.
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On February 5,2011, Greyson Chance entered the National spotlight again with a performance of "Waiting Outside the Lines" on CBS's Early Show, while stopping through New York on Miranda Cosgrove's Dancing Crazy Tour.
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On May 17,2011, his second single, "Unfriend You", was released to iTunes and, on May 23, Greyson Chance visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show to premiere the single.
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In November 2011, Greyson Chance undertook a tour of Southeast Asia to promote his album, which had just been released in the region.
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The tour started in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where in addition to a showcase performance he was invited to perform at the Malaysian Music Industry Awards show with Malaysia YouTube sensation, Najwa Latif, Greyson Chance gave performances in Singapore; Kota Kinabalu ; Manila, Philippines; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
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In March 2012, Greyson Chance returned to Asia to support the release of a special edition of the album, which was released to the Asian market on March 20.
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Greyson Chance was accompanied by his full four-part band and gave full concert performances in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, and Manila, before going on without the band on a promotional tour to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Bangkok, Thailand.
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On January 13,2014, Greyson Chance released a new song named "Temptation" onto his SoundCloud.
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Greyson Chance performed the song at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Greyson Chance had a release party of his new EP in YouTube Space LA on May 13,2016.
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In June 2016, one month after releasing his new EP, Somewhere Over My Head, Greyson Chance returned to Asia for a short promo tour starting in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang in Malaysia, and Manila, Philippines.
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On December 23,2016, Greyson Chance released a song called "London".
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On May 6,2017, Greyson Chance is featured on Fabian Mazur's song called "Earn It".
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On May 12,2017, Greyson Chance's cover of "Hungry Eyes" was released as part of the soundtrack album for the television film remake of Dirty Dancing.
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On June 30,2017, Greyson Chance released a song called "Seasons".
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On January 15,2021, Greyson Chance released "Holy Feeling", the lead single from his upcoming extended play.
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Greyson Chance announced on April 29 that his third extended play, Trophies, would be released on June 25,2021.
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In March 2022, it was announced that Greyson Chance would make his feature film debut, starring in Maybelline Prince.
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In 2017, Greyson Chance was attending the University of Tulsa and majoring in history, but he later dropped out to focus on music.
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On July 19,2017, Greyson Chance came out as gay in an Instagram post.