Grace VanderWaal

Grace was born January 15, 2004 and  is an American singer, songwriter and ukuleleist from Suffern, New York. In September 2016, at age 12, she won the eleventh season of the NBC TV competition show America's Got Talent. She soon signed a record deal with Columbia Records and released her first EP, Perfectly Imperfect, in December 2016. VanderWaal also creates videos of her original songs and covers for YouTube, and she continues to perform

her parents, David and Tina VanderWaal, lived in Lenexa at the time. The family later moved to Suffern, New York. Since winning AGT, VanderWaal has been home-schooled and enrolled in online courses.