We join Chad in being wowed by Greyson Michael Chance
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Greyson Michael Chance to appear on TheEllenShow today (Thursday)
Greyson is a USA Oklahoma boy.
Greyson's Paparazzi video currently records 7,563,886 hits on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDlC7YV5is
15,419 fans join Greyson Michael Chance's brand new section on Facebook.
Greyson Michael Chance: We Are Your Fans!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greyson-Michael-Chance-We-Are-Your-Fans/106704626040878?ref=ts
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It's Greyson Michael Chance, the Oklahoma Swooner
By Marc Schneider Posted May 12th 2010 05:20PM
PopEater.com
Greyson Michael Chance is the quintessential overnight sensation. A day
after a video showing the tween performing Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi' exploded
on YouTube, Chance is jetting around the country, rubbing elbows with Ellen
DeGeneres (he'll be on her talker on Thursday) and fielding a flood of
interview offers. Meredith Vieira's fingers must be tired from dialing all
day.
You've seen the video and you know what his acrobatic voice does to tween
girls. But who is Greyson? PopEater spoke with the 12-year-old virtuoso's
music teacher, Kelly Cheek, to get the skinny on the kid everyone's calling
the next Justin Bieber.
First things first, Greyson is a sixth-grader at Cheyenne Middle School in
Edmond, Oklahoma. The performance was part of a district-wide talent show at
a nearby middle school. Cheek tells us that, amazingly, Greyson has only
been in her choir class since January.
"I have to say, he has done pretty awesome [in class]!" she said, glowingly.
"I have never seen anyone with his level or type of talent."
His unique gift -- think Tori Amos if she were a 12-year-old boy from
Oklahoma -- has helped him rack up well over a million views for the video,
and has inspired a Facebook fan page, which currently has nearly 10,000
devotees screaming "WOW!" and "Sooooo Cool!" "It's amazing to see that level
of comfort from such a young performer," Cheek said.
But Greyson isn't the only star of the clip, of course. Seated behind him on
the risers, slack-jawed and staring, are a dozen or so young girls doing
their best to not faint on each other.
"He put the video up himself, and the reaction at the concert alone was
crazy," Cheek recalled of the scene. "All of the girls were screaming, they
just loved it!"
Cheek, who it should be noted is NOT the woman near the end of the video,
has high hopes for her pupil, but for now is just hoping he comes back to
class before summer break.
"I am unsure of his plans after this," she tells us. "We really hope he
comes back to school for the rest of the year, but after this video, who
knows what his future holds!"
Cheek says there's been "constant excitement" at the school all day
Wednesday and that "its been very hard to get any work done" with all the
Greyson-fever going around. "We have a very long list of people who have
called wanting to talk to Greyson!"
Greyson was Student of the Month last October. We're just gonna go out on a
limb and predict he'll reprise that honor for May.
So, what about Greyson's other talents? On his YouTube page, the only other
videos he's uploaded are self-penned and are a far cry from your normal
12-year-old pop fare. According to the child prodigy, one of the tracks,
'Stars,' is "about a wife who dies of cancer but then she goes to heaven ...
Then the husband shortly after her." Watch:
http://www.popeater.com/2010/05/12/greyson-michael-chance-oklahoma-youtube-singer/
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