Grace VanderWaal

Grace VanderWaal (born January 1, 2004) is an American singer and songwriter who plays the ukulele. She was the winner of the eleventh season of America's Got Talent.[1]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Music 3 America's Got Talent 4 References

Early life
Grace was born on January 1, 2004 in Suffern, New York, US. She lives with her mother, Tina; father, Dave; older brother, Jakob; and older sister Olivia. The family also has two dogs.[2]

She reportedly first started to write songs when she was 3 years old, on a toy microphone set, and bought her first ukulele with money from her 11th birthday.[3] She also has a YouTube channel she performs on.[4]

Music
Grace has several of her own original songs (including those sung on AGT) on her YouTube channel.[5]

Grace also sings covers of popular songs and uploads them to her channel, they include "Exes and Oh's" by Elle King and "Pity Party" by Melanie Martinez.

America's Got Talent
VanderWaal won the eleventh season of NBC's America's Got Talent. She auditioned with her original song, "I don't know my name",[4] and was Howie Mandel's "golden buzzer" act.[4] Simon Cowell also commented that she might be "the next Taylor Swift".[6][7] Her next performance at the quarterfinals was of another of her originals, "Beautiful Thing", a song written for her sister.[4] For the semifinals, VanderWaal performed another original called "Light The Sky"[4] and followed it up with the last original "Clay" for the finals.[7]