Gracie Abrams: 5 Things To Know About Singer Opening For Taylor Swift On Tour

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Image Credit: Shutterstock Gracie Abrams is simply a singer-songwriter. She opened for Olivia Rodrigo’s 2022 Sour Tour. She’s been an opening enactment connected Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

Gracie Abrams is lone 23 years aged and she’s already gone connected circuit with 2 of the biggest superstars successful music. Gracie was an opening enactment connected Olivia Rodrigo‘s 2022 Sour Tour that ran from April 2022 to July 2022. Gracie told her fans that she was “screaming crying” successful excitement erstwhile she recovered retired the quality from Olivia. Then successful 2023, Gracie opened for implicit a twelve shows connected the archetypal US limb of Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour.

Taylor announced connected August 3, 2023 that her circuit is returning to the U.S. and going to Canada successful the autumn with Gracie arsenic the peculiar impermanent performer. “IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE OVER😭,” Gracie wrote connected Instagram to observe the news. “@taylorswift I emotion you forever. I can’t adjacent …… HAPPY ERAS,” she added. Gracie volition execute astatine Taylor’s shows successful Miami, New Orleans, Indianapolis, and Toronto successful October 2023 and November 2023.

HollywoodLife has each the updates connected Gracie Abrams below. Keep speechmaking to larn each astir the talented singer, including who her celebrated begetter is.

Gracie Abrams is simply a singer-songwriter.

Gracie Madigan Abrams, calved Sept. 7, 1999, is an American singer-songwriter. She released her debut single, “Mean It,” successful 2019 and followed it up with “Stay.” In 2020, she released her debut ep, Minor, which included songs, “Long Sleeves,” “Friend,” “I Miss You, I’m Sorry’ and more. She promoted the merchandise with appearances connected late-night shows and continued to enactment connected her vocation during the pandemic months. She teamed with Benny Blanco for his Friends Keep Secrets 2 album, joining him connected the single, “Unlearn.” In 2021, she besides released Mess It Up,” “Feels Like,” and “Rockland,” a opus she wrote with Aaron Dresser (the subordinate of The National who co-wrote and produced Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore.).

Her Father Is J.J. Abrams.

Gracie is the girl of J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath. JJ is champion known for directing movies similar Cloverfield, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the 2009 Star Trek reboot, and more. He besides has created Alias, Lost, and Fringe and had his manus successful respective different projects. Katie is besides a producer, arsenic she’s worked with her and JJ’s Bad Robots Productions company, arsenic good arsenic the Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams Family Foundation.

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She Wanted Nothing To Do With The Family Business.

“Even the flimsy cognition that I had of it increasing up arsenic a kid made maine privation to person thing to bash with it astatine all,” Gracie said of her parents’ concern successful an interrogation with Riff Magazine. “When I started falling successful emotion with euphony autarkic of each different factors successful my life, it was benignant of a blessed surprise, conscionable due to the fact that I actively tried to debar thing that they were progressive in. I—with love—wanted thing to bash with them.”

At property 8, she signed up for drumming classes. She past learned piano, past guitar, uncovering them much conducive to her songwriting. Her protective parents lone allowed her to station the euphony to her SoundCloud and required that she support her Instagram private. When she made the relationship public, her vocation took disconnected – and it led to immoderate astonishing connections. Lorde even DM’d Gracie, asking for a download of 1 of her songs.

“She decidedly is an creator successful my beingness that I volition everlastingly consciousness similar I beryllium everything to,” Gracie told Riff erstwhile talking astir Lorde. “Sonically and thematically, [Pure Heroine] changed my life. I retrieve being with my household successful the surviving room, and I refresh my Instagram and spot that she followed me. I had a brainsick carnal reaction, like, sweating immediately.”

Olivia Rodrigo Is A Huge Fan Of Gracie

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“One of my favourite artists and 1 of the coolest radical ever is Gracie Abrams, who conscionable came retired with her debut EP a mates of months ago,” Olivia told Zane Lowe successful January 2021 (per ET Canada). “It’s called Minor, and she’s perfectly amazing, emotion that full record. She’s signed to my aforesaid grounds label, truthful they’re like, ‘Oh, we’ll person you meet.’ And I’m like, ‘I virtually don’t deliberation I tin conscionable her. I deliberation I would conscionable evaporate. I’m her biggest fan.’ I’ve heard the champion things, and I’ve been DMing her connected Instagram, and I told her that ‘Driver’s License’ was truthful inspired by her, and she’s like, ‘Oh, that’s amazing.'”

“This is my chamber songwriting oasis,” Olivia Rodrigo said successful a May 2021 interview with Elle. Olivia “created a small shrine” to each the “singer-songwriters she admires.” Among that makeshift ‘Hall of Fame’ were Taylor Swift, Gwen Stefani, Alanis Morissette, and, of course, Gracie Abrams.” Simon Riback, the caput of A&R astatine Interscope – portion of the institution that includes Geffen Records, which is Olivia’s statement – said helium was impressed by Olivia and however she named Gracie arsenic 1 of her favourite artists. “Gracie’s successful her infancy! She started referencing Fiona Apple, the Smashing Pumpkins. She liked the Taylor Swifts and each that, but you could archer determination was a left-of-center presumption to the mode she was approaching popular music.”

Gracie Is Politically Active

During the 2020 election, Gracie worked arsenic a canvass idiosyncratic successful her area, thing she told NME was inspired by her friends. “Unfortunately, for a truly agelong time, younger radical had assumed we would beryllium OK successful the manus of the older generation, but intelligibly we can’t trust connected them to signifier the aboriginal that we privation to see,” she told the publication. “Being progressive truly mattered to me.”

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