Greyson Chance

Greyson Chance crafts emotionally charged pop songs that often revolve around introspective lyrics and piano foundations. Online exposure first brought him notice, paving the way for his breakthrough with the 2011 release Hold on 'Til the Night, which reached number 29 on the Billboard 200. Over time his style evolved into more intricate territory, blending layered electronic elements with his acoustic roots on the 2019 album Portraits and the 2022 follow-up Palladium.

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1997 and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma, Chance started piano lessons at age eight. A recording of his middle-school talent show performance of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” posted to YouTube in April 2010, quickly spread online and drew the attention of Ellen DeGeneres. She invited the then-12-year-old onstage and later signed him to her newly formed eleveneleven imprint. An Interscope agreement came next, leading to the December 2010 single “Waiting Outside the Lines.” The full-length Hold on 'Til the Night appeared the following year and entered the Top 40 in its opening week, while the EP Truth Be Told, Pt. 1 surfaced in 2012.

He kept touring and writing in the years that followed. As his voice matured and lowered, his interests turned toward detailed indie rock and alternative electronic pop, a direction showcased on the 2016 EP Somewhere Over My Head. That project included the tracks “Afterlife,” “Hit & Run,” and “Back on the Wall.” Also in 2016 he appeared on the dance single “Oceans” by tyDi and Jack Novak. In July 2017 Chance publicly identified as gay through social media, describing himself as content and proud. The introspective single “Low” arrived that December. Additional releases followed throughout the next year, among them the Fabian Mazur collaboration “Lighthouse,” along with “Good as Gold” and “Twenty One.”

Chance returned in 2019 with his second studio album, Portraits, which carried production contributions from Willy Beaman, Christian Medice, and Todd Spadafore and featured the single “Shut Up.” The EP Trophies and the standalone song “Hellboy” both emerged in June 2021. His third full-length album, Palladium, arrived the year after, with a deluxe edition issued in 2023.