Background and career
Gracie Madigan Abrams (; born September 7, 1999) is an American singer and songwriter. She signed with Interscope Records in 2019 and gained recognition after releasing her debut extended play, Minor (2020), and its follow-up, This Is What It Feels Like (2021), alongside various singles including "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". Abrams released her debut album, Good Riddance (2023), and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She also performed as an opening act on Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour (2022) and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour (2023–2024). In 2023, Abrams featured on a remix to Noah Kahan's "Everywhere, Everything", which marked her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100. She was also featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list that year. Her second studio album, The Secret of Us (2024), debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 and was supported by the singles "Risk", "Close to You", "I Love You, I'm Sorry", and "That's So True"; the lattermost peaked at number four on the Billboard Global 200. Abrams collaborated with Taylor Swift on the album track "Us", which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. In 2025, Abrams won the American Music Award for New Artist of the Year.
Gracie Madigan Abrams was born on September 7, 1999, in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. She is the daughter of filmmaker J. J. Abrams and film and television producer Katie McGrath, and the granddaughter of producers Gerald W. Abrams and Carol Ann Abrams. Her paternal heritage is Ashkenazi Jewish, while her maternal background is Irish Catholic. Abrams has two brothers. Abrams developed an interest in music from a young age and began writing songs at the age of eight. She attended The Archer School for Girls in West Los Angeles, and she graduated in 2018. Following her graduation, Abrams enrolled at Barnard College in New York City to study international relations, but she chose to take a break after her first year to pursue a career in music.
In October 2019, Abrams released her debut single, "Mean It", under Interscope Records. In July 2020, Abrams released her debut extended play, Minor, which saw her collaborating with producers such as Joel Little and Blake Slatkin. The EP was supported by various singles, including "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". In March 2021, Abrams featured alongside Benny Blanco on "Unlearn". In May that year, she released the standalone single "Mess It Up". In October, Abrams announced her next EP, This Is What It Feels Like, which was released on November 12, 2021. The EP was preceded by the singles "Feels Like", and "Rockland"; with the latter created alongside Aaron Dessner. In support of the EP, she embarked on the This Is What It Feels Like Tour, which started on February 2, 2022, in Salt Lake City and concluded on May 31, 2022, in Stockholm. Along with her headlining tour, Abrams opened for Olivia Rodrigo as the supporting act for her Sour Tour. Abrams released "Difficult", the lead single to her then-upcoming debut album in October 2022. On February 24, 2023, Abrams released her debut album Good Riddance. A deluxe edition was released in June of that year. Throughout 2023, Abrams performed as an opening act at selected shows of the US leg of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, and returned as Swift's opening act for more US and Canadian shows in late 2024, also performing at the second to last show of the Eras Tour in Vancouver. She also embarked on the Good Riddance Tour, her third headlining concert tour. On November 8, 2023, she released the song "Cedar", which was featured on the soundtrack of The Buccaneers. She was nominated for Best New Artist for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. Abrams was featured on a remix of the song "Everywhere, Everything" by Noah Kahan, which was released on December 1, 2023 and marked her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 79. Late that year, Abrams featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
On April 29, 2024, Abrams announced her second album, The Secret of Us, which was released on June 21, 2024. The first single, titled "Risk", was released on May 1, 2024. To support the album, Abrams embarked on the Secret of Us Tour through the United States between September 5 and October 10, 2024. "Close to You" was released as the second single on June 7, 2024. The song was released after being previously teased seven years prior. Abrams released "I Love You, I'm Sorry" as the album's third single in October 2024, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Global 200 chart. "That's So True" was released as a single from the deluxe edition of The Secret of Us on November 6, 2024; it peaked atop the national charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The track reached number four on the Billboard Global 200 chart and number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Abrams collaborated with Taylor Swift on "Us", which was released as part of The Secret of Us, and was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. Abrams continued The Secret of Us Tour in 2025, starting on February 8 in Madrid and scheduled to end on August 27 in Mexico City. In June and July 2025, Abrams performed two unreleased songs, titled "Out of Nowhere" and "Crazy Girl", during her sets at the Glastonbury Festival 2025 and BST Hyde Park 2025, respectively. In January 2026, it was announced that Abrams will make her acting debut in the A24 film Please, written and directed by Halina Reijn. Abrams is being represented by the Creative Artists Agency. Her third studio album, Daughter from Hell was released on July 17, 2026, with the lead single, "Hit the Wall", released on May 14. On May 28, Abrams announced the Look at My Life Tour in support of the album, scheduled from December 2026 to March 2027. The album's second single, "Look at My Life" was released on June 25.
Abrams's musical style has been classified as pop, bedroom pop, folk-pop, indie pop, and indie folk. She has been described as having a soprano or mezzo-soprano vocal range, with Andrew Butcher of music is to blame describing her vocals as "breathy" and "fragile". Abrams has cited Taylor Swift, Joni Mitchell, Lorde, and Phoebe Bridgers as her biggest songwriting inspirations and musical idols. She has praised Swift as an "athlete, brilliant businessperson, and a genius writer" and has called Bridgers the "writer of our generation". She has a tattoo of the word "river" inspired by Mitchell's song of the same name. Abrams has also been inspired by her contemporaries such as Olivia Rodrigo. She has joined both Swift and Rodrigo on tours. Other artists that have inspired her include Robyn, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis Costello, Bon Iver, Elliott Smith, Kate Bush, Lana Del Rey, the 1975, James Blake, Metric, and the Killers.
Abrams was selected to be one of the faces of Pandora's 2022 ME campaign. She co-starred in Tumi's Fall 2022 Built for the Journey campaign in the same year. In October 2024, she became a brand ambassador for Chanel's Coco Crush jewelry collection. In January 2026, Chanel announced Abrams as the new face of their Coco Crush fine jewelry collection, positioning her alongside global ambassadors like Blackpink's Jennie Kim in a major worldwide campaign that debuted at the Chateau Marmont.
