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Alyssa Grace: eleven months from a phone camera to Rod Laver Arena
Alyssa Grace Proffitt went from posting guitar-and-voice clips in October 2025 to a Billboard Hot 100 single, a debut EP and a twelve-night arena support run across Australia and New Zealand. Her own headline tour opens in Brooklyn on 21 September 2026 with most of it already sold.
Boise, then a phone camera
Alyssa Grace Proffitt was born in June 2007 in Boise, Idaho, and is now based in California. The musical training came early and formally: she was singing as a toddler, her parents arranged lessons by the time she was seven, and she sang the national anthem at events and did theatre before picking up a guitar at ten.
What she wrote as a child bears almost no relation to what she released. She has described those early efforts as Disney Channel-style feminist pop songs, one of them called "What's a Girl to You?". The shift came when she stopped smoothing her voice out. She credits the decision to keep the cracks and the odd inflection — rather than sand them off — with getting her to something that sounded like a person rather than a demo.
She began posting on TikTok and Instagram in October 2025. "dog with a bone" was the first song she deliberately put in front of strangers, and it became her recording debut when it was released in February 2026. The gap between the first upload and the first arena stage is under a year.
Four singles and a debut EP
"picking petals" followed on 23 April 2026 and reached No. 90 on the UK chart. Grace has been direct about where it came from: "That situation felt unresolved. I was stuck on someone I knew I needed to leave, but I kept going back." The song repeats its own structure to mirror that loop. Reviewing it a week after release, The Pop Break singled out the guitar-led plainness of the arrangement and the refusal to resolve the argument neatly. Grace framed the writing itself as the point rather than the outcome: "I'm the only one who can validate my feelings, and writing helps me actually listen to myself."
"bloodstream", also from April 2026, is the one that moved. It started as a song about a relationship and was rewritten once she saw listeners reading it as being about family, and she reworked it towards something broader. It reached No. 45 on the Billboard Hot 100, went top 20 in the UK, hit No. 17 in Australia and No. 84 in Germany. "washing skin" came after it.
The debut EP, spilling my guts, arrived on 24 July 2026 through Artist House. The sound across it is acoustic guitar first — indie folk with country phrasing and the close, unpolished recording habits of bedroom pop — and the material stays with teenage experience rather than trying to outgrow it. Speaking to Ones to Watch in June 2026, Grace was unapologetic about the mood: "I write when I'm in my hard times," and "I go through the things that teenage girls go through." She has said she is not aiming for happy songs, only for a listener feeling less alone, and she has spoken publicly about having ADHD and difficulties with reading comprehension.
What the numbers looked like by August
The figures published on 6 August 2026 explain why the booking moved as fast as it did. "bloodstream" had passed 96 million global streams. Grace was at 6.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, with placements on Spotify's Pop Rising and Apple Music's Alt CTRL. On TikTok the song had generated 7.2 million posts and 4.2 billion views — a ratio that matters more to a booking agent than the raw view count, because it means people were making things with the song rather than scrolling past it.
Three headline shows were announced on 5 August 2026 — Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on 21 September, The Lower Third in London on the 24th, and The Echo in Los Angeles on the 29th. Presale opened on 6 August and general sale at 10am local time on 7 August. All three had sold out by the time the September run came around.
These are small rooms by any measure, and that was the point: a deliberately undersized first headline run booked while she was still learning what her own show is.
Twelve arena nights in the support slot
On 30 July 2026, Alex Warren confirmed Grace as special guest for every Australian and New Zealand date of his Finding Family on the Road world tour — twelve shows in total. The run opened at Wolfbrook Arena in Christchurch on 21 and 22 August, went to Spark Arena in Auckland on 24 August, then Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on 28, 29 and 30 August, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 1 and 2 September, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 4, 5 and 6 September, and Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 9 September. The Sydney shows on 28 and 29 August and the Melbourne shows on 4 and 5 September were sold out before she was added to the bill.
The support set has been logged consistently. At Rod Laver Arena on 4 September she played seven songs between 7.45pm and 8.05pm; the same seven ran again on 6 September. The order was "dog with a bone", "spilling guts", "bones", "Sailor Song", "picking petals", "washing skin" and "bloodstream" — the hit held back to close, which is conventional for an opener but also leaves an arena crowd with the one song most of them came in already knowing.
Brisbane on 1 September ran to eight, adding "somebody to somebody" and "baby swim" and reordering the top of the set. That is the only substantial variation logged across the run: roughly twenty to twenty-five minutes, seven or eight songs, almost the entire released catalogue played in one go. With four singles and a short EP to draw on, a headline show has to be built out of something more than the recordings — which is the problem the autumn tour has to solve.
The Wanna Be Singer Tour
The headline tour proper runs from 5 November to 2 December 2026 and stays in clubs and theatres rather than following the arena crowd. It opens at the Ogden Theatre in Denver on 5 November, then Fine Line in Minneapolis on the 7th, Metro Chicago on the 8th and 9th, the Lincoln Theatre in Washington DC on the 11th, Brighton Music Hall in Boston on the 12th, The Mod Club in Toronto on the 15th, Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia on the 18th, Center Stage in Atlanta on the 20th, The Basement East in Nashville on the 21st, early and late shows at Bowery Ballroom in New York on the 23rd, Webster Hall on the 24th, the Troubadour in West Hollywood on the 30th, the El Rey on 1 December and the Troubadour again on 2 December.
Several of those were added after the original dates sold — the second Chicago night, the Washington show, the late Bowery set, the Webster Hall upgrade and both extra Los Angeles nights are all later additions. As of 20 September, most of the itinerary reads sold out, with tickets or VIP upgrades still listed for Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Webster Hall. No support acts have been announced.
The pattern is the interesting part. Rather than taking the arena exposure and booking bigger rooms, the tour doubles and triples up in the same cities — three separate Los Angeles nights across two venues, three New York performances across two. It is a promoter treating demand as real but untested, and a nineteen-year-old with one EP being given a lot of consecutive nights to work out what a ninety-minute show of her own actually contains.
The show, now
Until 21 September 2026 the only Alyssa Grace set that had been documented at length was the support slot on Alex Warren's Australian and New Zealand arena run, and it was short and fixed: seven songs in roughly twenty minutes at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 4 September, running 7.45pm to 8.05pm, and the same seven again on 6 September — "dog with a bone", "spilling guts", "bones", "Sailor Song", "picking petals", "washing skin" and "bloodstream" to finish. Brisbane on 1 September stretched to eight with "somebody to somebody" and "baby swim" added, which is close to everything she has recorded. The material is acoustic guitar and voice at its core, and with four singles and one EP to draw from, the arena sets amounted to the catalogue played straight through with the Hot 100 single held back to close. The headline run is a different proposition: Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on 21 September, The Lower Third in London on the 24th and The Echo in Los Angeles on the 29th all sold out, and the November–December Wanna Be Singer Tour plays clubs and theatres — the Ogden in Denver, Metro Chicago, Bowery Ballroom and the Troubadour — with no support acts announced and several cities doubled up after the first nights sold. No reviews of a full headline show had been published as of 20 September, because the first one had not yet happened.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · onestowatch.com · thepopbreak.com · broadwayworld.com · thatericalper.com · setlist.fm · livenation.com · alyssagrace.com
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