On Sunday BSC Kids caught up with Greyson Chance and interviewed him on tour!
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Sarah Peel from BSC was the lucky interviewer who had the opportunity to sit down with Greyson and discuss things like his upbringing, his place in the music industry and a few other fun topics. You can find the interview below courtesy of BSCKids.com. Be sure to checkout their website!
BSC: You got your start by someone posting a video of you singing Lady Gaga’s song “Papparazzi” at a music festival. How does it feel that somebody posted a video up of you before you became famous?
Greyson: I pushed it to be all by myself. I pushed it, nobody else did. Yeah, it feels great, and you know I love “Papparazzi.” And I was just very lucky and blessed that Ellen found it.BSC: Your brother sent her the link, didn’t he?
Greyson: Well, my brother sent her the link, but they contacted my mom, actually first.BSC: Okay. And from there, she signed you, correct?
Greyson: Yeah, I’m signed to Ellen’s label eleveneleven, and also I’m signed to Maverick and Geffen Records, as well.BSC: You released your first single in October. Do have plans for an album coming out or a tour? What are your plans for your music career this year?
Greyson: Well, I’m on tour right now. I’m on tour for Miranda Cosgrove. We’re in Houston right now, actually, and the tour is winding up. We have 3 more shows after tonight. And yeah, the record is going to come out this year, and hopefully I’ll be going on another tour and putting out another single and just keep on building and building.BSC: Do you hope to have headlining tour of your own soon?
Greyson: Maybe. We’re gonna have to see. (Laughs a little.)BSC: You also won an award earlier this year, I believe. The People’s Choice Award?
Greyson: I was nominated. I didn’t win.BSC: Okay, cause it said on Wikipedia you won.
Greyson: Oh, no I didn’t win.BSC: That’s Wikipedia for you. But how did it feel to be nominated on an award so early in your career?
Greyson: Well, it feels great, you know, and I felt honored to be nominated. It was so great, you know, and I thank my fans for getting me there and for voting. Even though we didn’t win, we still got nominated, so it was very incredible.BSC: Do you hope one day to get nominated for a Grammy Award?
Greyson: Of course. That’s one of my biggest dreams.BSC: Yeah, I think that is probably a big dream for any singer or celebrity at this point.
Greyson: Exactly!BSC: You recenty met Jusin Beiber and Jaden Smith. Um, how did it feel to meet them and to meet a fellow YouTube star who got his start on YouTube?
Greyson: Well, Justin is an incredibly, really nice guy, and so it was great to meet him and Jaden. Yeah, it was really cool, and they’re both very nice guys.BSC: Do you like being compared to Justin?
Greyson: Yeah, you know, we’re often compared, but my music is more pop-rock thing, so its different.BSC: Do you think that YouTube has changed the music industry forever by allowing people to be get their start by posting videos? How do you feel about it?
Greyson: Well, I think that YouTube has definitely changed the way artists are discovered now. It’s a great thing, I think, you know, having young artists and people full of talent being discovered by YouTube. It’s a great way to be discovered. You can find a lot of talent on YouTube.BSC: You’ve often said that you would like to work with Lady Gaga before, but who else would like to work with in the future?
Greyson: Well, I’m bag fans of lots of artists. I love Christina Aguilera, I love Gaga, of course, I love Hayley Williams, so I don’t know, maybe I’ll throw a duet in the mix here pretty soon.BSC: Any advice to young future stars who want to break out into the music industry?
Greyson: Young celebrities or just young people?BSC: Young people who want to break out into the music industry.
Greyson: Oh, okay. Well, you know, you have to just keep following your dreams, and let nobody bring you down because, you know, when I was a kid I said I wanted to be a singer, I wanted to be signed and go on tour. And everyone would tell me, “Oh you’re never going to make it, you’re from Oklahoma, you’re not gonna get there.” These kids have huge dreams, you just gotta keep on.BSC: Okay! Do you have any last words or thoughts for your fans who will read the interview?
Greyson: Well, you know, I love my fans so much, they mean the world to me. They’re the reason why I’m here. Just thank you for all the love and support.
A big thanks goes out to BSC Kids for taking the time to interview Greyson and posting it online for us! Awesome chat!
Greyson Chance gave us a behind the scenes look inside his tour rehearsals through a recent video released by Fanlala.
Greyson Chance hung out with Big D from KDWB radio while at the Mall of America back on January 25th.
Greyson Chance has been in the studio for months now, hard at work recording his debut album. Since landing a record deal with both ElevenEleven and Interscope records, Los Angeles has become Greyson’s home away from home and the base for his recording.
First Greyson talked about his record labels, ElevenEleven and Geffen/Interscope records. We learned that Greyson hasn’t been working with ElevenEleven very much due to the fact that it’s such a new label and still getting its feet wet. It’s expected that Greyson will work a lot more with the label in the years to come as it becomes more established. Interscope has definitely been taking the lead with Greyson on the album and Ron Fair, the veteran Interscope record producer and songwriter (with over 25 years in the industry) has been right next to him during the process.
Greyson then talked a little about the methodology behind his writing style. Greyson said himself, “It’s kind of weird how I work when it comes to writing”. Greyson admits that he doesn’t have the capability to just sit down at any time and start writing. Instead the ideas must be there, usually from something that he’s been inspired by. The biggest inspiration’s Greyson has pulled from during this process have been the likes of Lady Gaga, Elton John, John Lennon, John Legend and Christina Aguilera.
Digging deeper into the details of the album Greyson talked about the style of music we should expect to hear. We learned that the album will consist of an interesting mix of tracks that will include songs with a band as well as solo piano tracks performed by Greyson himself. What we shouldn’t expect to hear are love songs; Greyson tells us that he really didn’t focus the album on that topic and says that he tends to write a lot of sad songs but tried to mix them with an up-tempo beat.
So what about Greyson Chance music videos? Well Greyson says that he’ll be recording some music videos “pretty soon”, much to the surprise of Dana Ward. Dana asked Greyson if he was a dancer; he responded by laughing and indicating that he would do his best!
Ellen DeGeneres continues her search for the world’s “Next Greyson Chance”.
Greyson Chance let the haters hate!
You can take anyone who has made something of themselves and find at least one person who has tried to bring them down. This fact became apparent to Greyson very early on; with his huge fan following came a small group of haters who tagged along, trying to hold him back from achieving his dreams. Greyson has pushed on though, ignoring them and focusing on his music and his fans.
