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GREYSON CHANCE Live In Malaysia on April 17th at 8.30 pm at KL Live
Greyson Chance charmed Malaysians in November 2011 on his first promo tour stint. Now he is back on his first major concert tour of Asia which includes Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Greyson will perform in Malaysia on April 17 at KL Live at 8.30 pm.
Chance hit instant fame when TV talkshow host Ellen DeGeneres caught the video of his piano cover of Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi on YouTube in April last year. The video went viral (with over 44 million views and counting) and became the No. 3 most-watched video on the social network site last year.Chance is the first artiste signed to Degeneres’ music label eleveneleven and has performed several times on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Chance began playing the piano at the age of 8 and has had three years of piano lessons. He, however, had no formal vocal training. He was emboldened by Lady Gaga after seeing her performance of Paparazzi at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. He stated, “I was awestruck by her performance. I love her sense of drama and theatricality.
Chance’s “Paparazzi” cover video was posted to YouTube, on April 28, 2010, and for almost two weeks the video generated low views. At least two social websites, GossipBoy.ca and reddit.com, posted video embeds on May 10, 2010. Ellen DeGeneres first saw the video after Chance’s brother, Tanner Chance, wrote to her show suggesting she watch it. The video had about 10,000 views when DeGeneres first saw it. While explaining her reasons for naming her new record label eleveneleven, she listed as one reason the fact that she first saw Chance’s Paparazzi cover on May 11, 2010. Also, she states that 11 is Greyson’s soccer jersey number. On the afternoon of May 11, Yahoo! Music reported: “As of this writing, the video has got more than 36,000 views so far, and he’s even been invited to perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On May 12, 2010 Greyson Chance taped an interview and performance of “Paparazzi” for Ellen in Los Angeles.It was broadcast on May 13. During the interview, Chance received a phone call from Lady Gaga,[ whom he says is his “true inspiration.”
On the morning of May 11, 2010, Chance’s cover video of “Paparazzi” was embedded at RyanSeacrest.com, which reported finding the video via BuzzFeed, a website that attempts to track and predict emerging viral internet memes Later in the day, TVGuide, The Huffington Post, and Yahoo! Music’s video blog, Video Ga Ga, also posted articles embedding the video; TVGuide mentioned in its article that a Facebook fan page had already been started for Chance. That afternoon, Ryan Seacrest and DeGeneres linked the video on their Twitter accounts, as did celebrity Ashton Kutcher later that evening.
On May 12, 2010, DeGeneres’ announcement of Chance’s booking, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, was broadcast at different times across the U.S. and posted to her website. Wall Street Journal\ and Los Angeles Times, among other mainstream media, posted articles embedding the video and announcing the forthcoming appearance. That evening, ABC World News broadcast a report on Chance which was introduced by Diane Sawyer, who said the story struck ABC News as “part Billy Elliot and part Glee.” That evening, Guy Oseary, an L.A.-based entertainment manager whose clients include Madonna, Demi Moore, and Ashton Kutcher, recommended Greyson’s “Paparazzi” video on Twitter.
On May 13, 2010, Chance’s appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show was broadcast, and mainstream media, including CBS and People, reported on the appearance. That morning, Ryan Seacrest posted another link on Twitter, this time to the video of Chance appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Not only has he received attention from DeGeneres and Seacrest but also, on May 14, singer, songwriter, David Archuleta linked the video on Twitter claiming that Greyson “is talented.”
This first appearance on Ellen was followed by a second appearance on the show, airing May 26, 2010, on which Chance performed his original song “Broken Hearts,” received a $10,000 award for winning Ellen’s Wonderful Web of Wonderment contest, a brand new Yamaha piano, and was announced as DeGeneres’s first signed artist to her new recording label eleveneleven.
On May 25, Ellen DeGeneres announced that she had formed a record label called eleveneleven and Chance was her first artist. Guy Oseary who manages Madonna’s career and Troy Carter, who manages Lady Gaga’s career, would be co-managers of Greyson Chance’s career,
To date Greyson Chance’s performance of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” on YouTube, as of December 3, 2011 has gained over 45 million views. Two of his original compositions, “Stars” and “Broken Hearts”, has now gained over 5 and 7 million views respectively on his YouTube channel. Chance now has many fans on online social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. He is the 28th most subscribed musician of all time on YouTube, with a 286,000 subscriber base, as of January 3, 2011.
His debut single title “Waiting Outside the Lines” was released to iTunes on October 26, 2010. It was released digitally in the UK on December 9. The single also contained a studio version of his cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi”. In early December 2010 he visited both Paris and London, appearing on local radio stations and giving private concerts in both cities.
On February 5, Greyson Chance entered the National spotlight again with an appearance/performance of “Waiting Outside The Lines” on the CBS Early Show, while stopping through New York on his tour with Miranda Cosgrove.
On May 17, 2011 his new single “Unfriend You” was released to iTunes. On April 9, he started the Waiting 4U tour with Australian pop/R&B singer Cody Simpson in Ivins, Utah. The tour ended on May 18, 2011 in Portland, Oregon.
On May 23, Greyson visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show to premiere his new single, “Unfriend You”. After the performance, Greyson revealed a solid release date for his upcoming debut album, Hold On ‘Til the Night, which was released on August 2, 2011. It is the first album released under Ellen DeGeneres’ record label eleveneleven.
On September 15, he again appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about his album, and also revealed that he had taken his first steps into acting, portraying a younger version of Jimmy Chance, the protagonist of Raising Hope, in the series’ second season premiere.
In November 2011 Greyson undertook a tour of Southeast Asia to promote his album, which had just been released in the region. Starting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where in addition to a showcase performance he was invited to perform at the Anugerah Industri Muzik (Malaysian Music Industry Awards) show (the first foreign artist so invited since 1999), Greyson also gave performances in Singapore; Kota Kinabalu (East Malaysia); Manila, Philippines; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
He has released his remix of“Waiting Outside the Lines.” as a duet with Charice where both were discovered on YouTube by Ellen DeGeneres and they both became international recording artists right after that eventually.
Now Greyson Chance embarks on a concert tour of Asia of Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia. Greyson will perform in Malaysia on April 17th at 8.30 pm at KL Live.
Tickets go on sale from Friday, February 9th and one can purchase concert tickets at the following outlet; Rock Corner KLCC, Subang Parade, The Gardens, Midvalley Megamall, The Curve; Victoria Music Centre, The Guitar Store outlets and at KL Live and is priced @ RM 188 (JS Zone); RM138 ( Party Zone) ; RM 88 (Regular).
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