Gracie Abrams

About Gracie Abrams

Gracie Madigan Abrams is an American singer-songwriter born on September 7, 1999, in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a highly creative Hollywood household, she developed a deep interest in music at a young age, beginning to write her own songs at age eight. She attended the Archer School for Girls and later studied international relations at Barnard College for three semesters before choosing to leave higher education to sign with Interscope Records and pursue a full-time professional musical career. 

Her music discography and hit singles outline a rapid ascent into the upper echelons of modern indie-pop and alternative music. She first built a dedicated online following with her debut independent singles "Mean It" in 2019 and "Stay" in 2019. She achieved critical breakthrough success with her emotionally intimate debut extended play "Minor" in 2020, which spawned the popular streaming hit singles "21" in 2020 and "I Miss You, I'm Sorry" in 2020. After releasing her sophomore extended play "This Is What It Feels Like" in 2021, she dropped her highly anticipated debut studio album "Good Riddance" in 2023, which resulted in a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist. Abrams achieved massive international commercial stardom with her sophomore studio album "The Secret of Us" in 2024, which peaked at number two on the United States Billboard 200 chart and featured the hit single "Risk" in 2024 and the Grammy-nominated Taylor Swift duet "Us" in 2024. She further expanded her artistic profile by co-producing and releasing her third studio album "Daughter from Hell" in 2026, a project driven by the cathartic hit singles "Hit the Wall" in 2026 and "Look at My Life" in 2026. 

Her film and television biography highlights her high-profile musical broadcasts and documentary appearances rather than traditional script acting. She made her prominent network television debut as a musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" in 2024. On the screen, she featured heavily as herself in the behind-the-scenes Disney+ concert docuseries event "Taylor Swift: The End of an Era" in 2025, which chronicled her experiences performing as a premier opening act on the historic global stadium tour. 

Personal information regarding her family and relationships highlights her prominent Hollywood lineage as the daughter of filmmaker and director J.J. Abrams and television producer Katie McGrath. She grew up alongside her two brothers, Henry and August. In her personal life, Abrams has never been married and has no children. She has been in a highly publicized, stable relationship with Oscar-nominated Irish actor Paul Mescal since June 2024, and the couple hard-launched their romance on the red carpet at the BAFTA Film Awards in 2026. Her cultural footprint also resulted in her being officially honored as the Songwriter of the Year at the Billboard Women in Music awards in 2025. 

Throughout her transition from a bedroom-pop artist to a global touring powerhouse, Abrams has been vocal about protecting her personal boundaries and the therapy of songwriting. A notable quote regarding her initial anxieties about entering a stable relationship while writing sad music underscores her creative evolution: "I was worried at first that feeling secure and stable was threatening my drive to write music, because that idea freaked me out, but I learned that a healthy partnership actually gives you more creative freedom." Reflecting on her refusal to get caught up in social media speculation or change her narrative for the public eye, she famously observed: "When people don't have a grasp on who you are, they tend to guess, and they tend to guess wrong. I write for myself, I sing for myself, and I try to find a beautiful way to live life completely outside of the online noise."