- Born on August 16th, 1997 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
- His birth name is Greyson Michael Chance
- Known as singer, pianist, and songwriter
- His Paparazzi's video cover became #3 YouTube most popular in 2010
- Two of his original compositions, "Stars" and "Broken Hearts", gained over 5 and 7 million views respectively on his YouTube channel
- His debut single, "Waiting Outside The Lines", was released in October 2010
- Edmond, Oklahoma is Greyson's hometown
- He is the youngest child of Scott and Lisa Chance
- He has a sister named Alexa Chance (17 years old) and a brother, Tanner Chance (20 years old)
- He's about 5' 4½" (1.64 m) height
- He attends 6th grade at Cheyenne Middle School, Edmond - Oklahoma
- Cheyenne become a title of a song on Hold On till the Night album
- Chance began playing the piano at the age of 8
- He has had three years of piano lessons but he had no formal vocal training
- His inspiration comes from Lady Gaga; after seeing her performance of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
- Chance also admires Christina Aguilera, the rock band Augustana, R&B singer John Legend, singer-songwriter Elton John and late Beatle John Lennon
- Chance's "Paparazzi" cover video was posted to YouTube, on April 28, 2010
- Ellen DeGeneres first saw Chance's video after his brother, Tanner Chance, wrote to her show suggesting she watch it. The video had about 10,000 views when DeGeneres first saw it
- DeGeneres said that she first saw Chance's Paparazzi cover on May 11, 2010
- Greyson's soccer jersey number is 11
- On May 12, 2010 Greyson Chance taped an interview and performance of "Paparazzi" for Ellen in Los Angeles. It was broadcast on May 13.
- Greyson 2nd appearance on Ellen (airing May 26, 2010) performed his original song "Broken Hearts," received a $10,000.00 award for winning Ellen's Wonderful Web of Wonderment contest, a brand new Yamaha piano, and was announced as DeGeneres's first signed artist to her new recording label eleveneleven
- He is the 28th most subscribed musician of all time on YouTube, with a 286,000 subscriber base as of January 3, 2011
- On the morning of May 11, 2010, Chance's cover video of "Paparazzi" was embedded at RyanSeacrest.com
- On May 14, singer, songwriter, and author David Archuletta linked the video on Twitter claiming that Greyson "is talented."
- On May 15, 2010, Greyson Chance created an official MySpace page and an official Twitter account.
- His debut single title "Waiting Outside the Lines" was released to iTunes on October 26, 2010. It was released digitally in the UK on December 9. The single also contained a studio version of his cover of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi".
- On May 17, 2011 his new single "Unfriend You" was released to iTunes.
- On April 9, he started the Waiting 4U tour with Australian pop/R&B singer Cody Simpson in Ivins, Utah. The tour ended on May 18, 2011 in Portland, Oregon.
- On May 23, Greyson visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show to premiere his new single, "Unfriend You".
- His debut album, Hold On 'Til the Night, was released on August 2, 2011
- Greyson won a "Teen Pick : YouTube Artist" on Hollywood Teen TV Awards
- His "Waiting Outside the Lines" music video directed by Sanaa Hamri while "Unfriend You" directed by Marc Klasfeld
- Ellen tweeted, "Never been more excited to have someone on my show." after Greyson accepted to appeared in her show
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