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Greyson Chance Biography
Greyson Chance is an American pop rock singer and pianist whose April 2010 performance of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at a sixth-grade music festival became a hit on YouTube, gaining over forty-three million views. Two of his original compositions, "Stars" and "Broken Hearts", gained over five and seven million views severally on his YouTube channel. Waiting Outside the Lines was released in October 2010 as his debut single and Hold On 'til the Night --Greyson Chance's debut album-- was released on August 2011.Greyson Chance's Personal life
Greyson Michael Chance was born on August 16, 1997 in Wichita Falls, Texas, and presently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma. He began playing the piano at the age of eight and has had 3 years of piano lessons, he had no formal vocal training.He is emboldened by Lady Gaga; after seeing her performance of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, he was awestruck by her performance and love her sense of drama and theatricality. "Plus she’s an amazing singer and piano player," said Chance.
Chance is also inspired by John Lennon, Elton John, John Legend, Augustana, and Christina Aguilera.
Greyson Chance's Appearances
Greyson Chance's "Paparazzi" cover video was posted to YouTube on April 28, 2010. Ellen DeGeneres first saw the video after Tanner Chance --Chance's brother -- wrote to her show suggesting she watch it. The video had about ten thousand views when DeGeneres first saw it; while explaining her reasons for naming her new record label "eleveneleven", she listed as one reason the fact that she first saw Chance's Paparazzi cover on May 11, 2010. Also, she states that 11 is Greyson's soccer jersey number. On the afternoon of May 11, Yahoo! Music reported: "As of this writing, the video has more than 36,000 views so far, and he's even been invited to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show".Greyson Chance recorded an interview and performance of "Paparazzi" for Ellen in Los Angeles on May 12, 2010. It was broadcast on May 13. Chance received a phone call from Lady Gaga during the interview. This first appearance on Ellen was followed by a second appearance on the show, airing May 26, 2010, on which Chance performed his original song "Broken Hearts," received a $10,000.00 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 label eleveneleven.
Greyson Chance now has many fans on online social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. He is the twenty-eighth most subscribed musician of all time on YouTube. Greyson Chance also appeared at We Day in downtown Toronto at the Air Canada Centre, where he performed "Fire" by Augustana.
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