![]() ![]() You can watch a portion of the conversation above and read the full interview below. He also explains how hearing Lorde's and Adele's music for the first time inspired his own songwriting, what fans can expect on his forthcoming debut album and more. The "Generation Why" singer recently stopped by the Recording Academy headquarters for our latest episode of Up Close & Personal to share what he's most looking forward to for his upcoming Comfort Crowd Tour, and how he tends to visualize music videos as he writes songs. Despite his fast-growing fan base and rise towards pop stardom, the charismatic artist is incredibly humble and remains in awe of where he is today. It wasn't long after relocating to La La Land that he got signed to Republic Records, who released Sunset Season. I wasn't signed yet, either," Gray recently told the Recording Academy. I was going to college at UCLA and I was going to classes and I was recording at the same time. ![]() "I started making the EP the second I moved from my hometown in Texas to L.A. In 2017, the creative teen left his small-town life for Los Angeles to purse undergraduate film studies at UCLA. Spending his teen years growing up in quiet Georgetown, Texas, he began writing and singing songs and uploading them to what swiftly became his popular YouTube channel, which now (at the time of this writing) has 1.4 million subscribers. 20-year-old singer/songwriter/video director Conan Gray just released his first EP, Sunset Season, last year, but he's already making noise in the D.I.Y. ![]()
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