Greyson Chance
Greyson Michael Chance ( born August 16, 1997 Wichita Falls, Texas) is a singer, who achieved his cover of Lady Gaga hit Paparazzi in April 2010 on the video platform YouTube notoriety.
Since 1 June 2010, the video has reached over 48.8 million visitors on YouTube. He has written himself two original compositions: Stars and Broken Hearts. Both have also been published on his YouTube channel and reached respectively 5.3 and 8.2 million visits. On August 2, published in 2011 chance of his first album, Hold on 'til the night.
Life
Greyson Chance is the youngest child of Scott and Lisa and has two older sisters, Alexa and Tanner. Greyson Chance and his sister Alexa take piano lessons from a young age and sing duets together. His brother Tanner is musical and has become the guitar and piano playing self taught. The family lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, where chance in 2010 attended the sixth class of the Cheyenne Middle School. Since kindergarten he sings in different performances and education programs. 2010 took part in a chance his school talent show and sang the song 100 Years. His musical influences are Lady Gaga and the American rock band Augustana, as he states on his YouTube channel. Therefore, the choice of the song Paparazzi by Lady Gaga. As chance the appearance of Lady Gaga at the MTV Video Music Awards saw in 2008, he decided to tackle a career in the music industry. Chance sees himself as a pianist and songwriter, but not as a professional singer, he has never received singing lessons.
Services
In April 2010 he sang Lady Gaga's hit song Paparazzi at a school festival in his hometown and demonstrated musical talent. He had adapted the song for the piano and also modified the text as it sings from the perspective of a boy. On April 28, 2010 Chance has set by his performance at the school festival on YouTube the video.
Under the name Greyson97 he has his own channel on the video platform. On his YouTube channel also self-penned songs are heard, as Stars and Broken Hearts. Newer song have the name Waiting Outside the Lines, Light Up the Dark and Unfriend You. As with the Canadian singer Justin Bieber, the YouTube community has discovered the video and also the U.S. Talkerin Ellen DeGeneres has become aware of it. Even celebrity blogger Perez Hilton and actor Ashton Kutcher wrote in their blogs and on Twitter about chance and thus promoted its notoriety.
On May 12, the students had an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" with his version of Paparazzi. During the show, Lady Gaga called and gave the newcomers advice. Greyson Chance is Lady Gaga as his greatest role model.
In the two weeks that lay between the setting of the video and the presentation, Chances video was called a million times. The show finally awakened by the Internet community and the interests of print media such as the Wall Street Journal or the Los Angeles Times. On May 26, chance had his second appearance on the show of the U.S. Talkerin Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen founded a record label specially for Greyson Chance. The label is called eleveneleven; this name is, according to Ellen assume that chance in his football team wore the number eleven and she found him in a May 11.
Chance has signed a record deal with the label Interscope Records, which also Lady Gaga is under contract. Ellen DeGeneres specially founded the label " eleveneleven " to produce his songs. Guy Oseary, the manager of Madonna and Ashton Kutcher, and Troy Carter, manager of Lady Gaga, this take over the management of Greyson Michael Chance.
Meanwhile, his debut album Hold on 'til the Night has already been published. On the next famous songs such as Waiting Outside the Lines and Unfriend You also several other songs were published. The album was eleveneleven under the label, Maverick, Streamline and Geffen produced. It was recorded in Los Angeles. In the U.S., it took in the first week number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and number 14 in the digital album charts.
At the U.S. Open from 2011 chance in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York City joined UF. At the opening ceremony, he sang the American national anthem and Empire state of Mind by Alicia Keys and Jay -Z.
The singer Katy Perry has also expressed interest in working with chance.
Criticism
Although it appears that the video of Chance's school festival performance is authentic, calls his tremendous success story criticism concerning misleading marketing strategies and media manipulation forth. Some experts in the music industry do not believe in the accidental success of Greyson Michael Chance, but are of the opinion that a professional campaign is behind the rise.