Gracie Abrams American Singer Born 1999 in Los Angeles

Early life

Gracie Madigan Abrams was born on 7 September 1999 in Los Angeles and grew up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Her father is the filmmaker J. J. Abrams and her mother, Katie McGrath, is a film and television producer. Her grandparents Gerald W. Abrams and Carol Ann Abrams were also producers. She has two brothers.

She became interested in music as a child and wrote her first songs at the age of eight. She attended the Archer School for Girls in West Los Angeles, graduating in 2018, and then enrolled at Barnard College in New York to study international relations. After her first year she took a break from her studies to concentrate on a music career.

Career

Abrams signed with Interscope Records in 2019, and her first single, "Mean It", came out that October. Her debut extended play, Minor, followed in July 2020 and included work with the producers Joel Little and Blake Slatkin. The singles that accompanied it included "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". In 2021 she released the single "Mess It Up" and put out a second extended play, This Is What It Feels Like, on 12 November. One of its singles, "Rockland", was written with Aaron Dessner. She toured in support of that release from February to May 2022, from Salt Lake City to Stockholm, and during the same year she was the supporting act on Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour.

Her first full-length album, Good Riddance, was released on 24 February 2023, with "Difficult" as its lead single, and a deluxe edition appeared that June. She opened selected United States shows of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour during 2023 and returned for further shows in the United States and Canada in late 2024, including the second-to-last date of the tour, in Vancouver. In November 2023 she released "Cedar", which appeared on the soundtrack of the television series The Buccaneers. A remix of Noah Kahan's "Everywhere, Everything" with Abrams as a featured artist, released on 1 December 2023, gave her a first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, at number 79.

She announced her second album, The Secret of Us, on 29 April 2024 and released it on 21 June. Its singles included "Risk", "Close to You" and "I Love You, I'm Sorry". A deluxe edition added "That's So True", released on 6 November 2024. The song reached number one in the national charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, number four on the Billboard Global 200 and number six on the Hot 100. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. It also contains "Us", a duet with Taylor Swift. She toured in support of the album in the United States from September to October 2024, with further dates in 2025.

In January 2026 it was announced that she would make her acting debut in Please, an A24 film written and directed by Halina Reijn. Her third album, Daughter from Hell, was released on 17 July 2026, led by the single "Hit the Wall" in May and followed by "Look at My Life" in June. A tour named after the latter was scheduled to run from December 2026 to March 2027.

Her music has been described as pop, bedroom pop, folk-pop, indie pop and indie folk.

Recognition

Abrams was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, and "Us" was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th. Forbes included her on its 30 Under 30 list in 2023, and in 2025 she won the American Music Award for New Artist of the Year.

She has appeared in advertising for Pandora and Tumi in 2022. She became a brand ambassador for Chanel's Coco Crush jewelry collection in October 2024, and in January 2026 the company named her the new face of its Coco Crush fine jewelry line.

Public roles

In May 2022 Abrams was one of about 160 musicians who signed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times criticizing the planned reversal of Roe v. Wade. In July 2022 she sold a limited-edition T-shirt with all proceeds going to the National Network of Abortion Funds. In 2023 she joined the group Artists4Ceasefire, which called for a ceasefire in the Gaza war. She endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election and performed at a Harris rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on 30 October 2024. On 22 December 2025 she released the charity single "Sold Out" through Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to Everytown for Gun Safety.