Grace VanderWaal was born on January 15, 2004, in Kansas and is now from Suffern, New York. She lives with her mother Tina, her father David, her older sister (also her best friend) by three years Olivia.
She
started singing at the age of three. She bought her first Ukulele with her
birthday money from her 11th birthday and a few months later, she began to
write songs. Her ukulele is the same size, but Grace VanderWaal has grown up
plenty since she first appeared on TV as a 12-year-old “America’s Got Talent”
champion in 2016. She was the winner of the competition, claiming the
$1,000,000 prize and the headlining of a show in Las Vegas.
Now,
after releasing music, touring the nation, and modeling, the singer/songwriter
has a new role as the titular star of the Disney movie “Stargirl”. Offscreen,
VanderWaal, now 16, is recording a follow-up to her 2019 EP, “Letters, Vol. 1.”
She
won the 2017 Radio Disney Music Award for Best New Artist and a Teen
Choice Award has been named to Billboard magazine's 21 Under 21
list of fast-rising young music stars in four consecutive years (2016–2019),
received the 2017 Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award, and is the
youngest person ever included in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Music List.
Trivia
- Grace is the first child act, and the first female to win since Bianca Ryan in Season 1.
- At 12 years of age when she won, Grace was the 2nd youngest act to win America's Got Talent.
- She is the first singing act to win since Season 6.
- She is the second consecutive Golden Buzzer act to win after Paul Zerdin, but she is the first winner to have received the Golden Buzzer in the auditions by one of the main judges.
- Grace was the first singing act to win AGT that performed original songs.
- The YouTube video of her audition is the most viewed in America's Got Talent history with over 100 million views. Her audition video was one of the top five trending YouTube videos of 2016.
- Grace was signed to IMG Models, the first AGT winner to make the transition to modeling.
- She made her film debut in Stargirl, which was released on Disney+ in 2020.
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