








New Artist ‘Gracie’ is here with her debut studio album ‘seeing stars’ + deluxe (2013)
Meet Gracie Holland, she was born on September 12th 1995, in New Jersey she was born from 2 unknown parents who gave her up for adoption due to not being able to take care of her due to their financial situation. She spent about a year of her life in the adoption centre before she was adopted by a family just a week before her 2nd birthday.
Growing up, she always felt like the odd one out, she was constantly reminded that she was adopted by her siblings. She would spend most of her childhood in isolation, but when she got to the age of 8, she met a girl by the name of Georgina who almost shielded Gracie as she was experiencing bullying at home and at school.
She would write songs as an escape but some bullies got a hold of it and would rewrite them to make fun of her and stick them all over her locker. this caused Gracie to stop going school and ended up getting homeschooled from the age of 10. he adopted father was a major record label execuive for Sony Music Group. and sometimes she use to do little performances for her father. she always had a mind for music.
when she was a teenager she fell in love with rock band ‘Sting’ and their makeup, she would do her makeup inspired by them. she would alsp do covers of their songs and would go around her home town doing covers of different songs. Her favourites was ‘Stay Down’ - Jazzy J, Human Nature - Black Velvet and many more. this got many people talking. On October 3rd 2011, while doing a performance, she sang one of her original songs called ‘solar’ and there was not a single dry eye in that bar.
This got her noticed by Columbia Records who wanted to give her a shot. she ended up performing 4 songs for them. 2 of which are still unreleased nd the other 2 are ‘tell me why’ and ‘selfish’ and in the words of ‘Georgia Addams’ (the label executive) she blew the roof off the place.
Gracie, now 17, was working on her debut studio album which shes decided to name ‘seeing stars’ as a nod to always aiming for the biggest things in life. By the time it was February 2013, Gracie was ready to release her first single which she decided to be solar as it was the song that changed her life. so it was set in stone that solar would release on March 3rd 2013.
That date soon came and solar failed to chart. however it blew her out of the waters. and on June 22nd 2013 the whole album soon followed. Gracie spent the next couple months with her family before going on her tour. this is where Gracie’s anxiety started to go crazy as she was doubting herself. that doubt soon faded as when June 22nd came ‘seeing stars’ was finally here.
Seeing Stars debuted at #96 and to many critics calling it ‘just abother sad lonely girl making music’. this really hurt Gracie as she really wanted this to be her career. She genuinely thought about giving it up. until she was scrolling on twitter and saw a rising artist by the name of Malcolm shouting her album out. this made her sooo happy soo much she wrote and recorded 10 new songs in the span of a month and decided to drop a deluxe.
The deluxe dropped about 3 months later and it sent Gracie to new heights. The Deluxe pushed the album to #26 and even gave her her first ever top 10 hit with angels chorus which peaked at #6. This pushed her to go on an arena tour at just 18. to which sold out.
The Stargazing tour gained over $19 million, and over the last 2 years, she's been grinding and perfecting her album, which is set to be released in 2016. It is also confirmed that Gracie and Malcolm are officially dating, to which Gracie calls it the happiest she’s ever been. Malcolm is her soulmate and nothing could ever change that.
Gracie has been featured heavily in Malcolm’s work. Her 2016 album, and of June 2015, is just over halfway done.