Feeling inspired, but would even more inspired if the music video playing in the background of this clip would be made public, rather than unlisted. It is such a beautiful song, so it's just all kinds of wrong that it has 1/6th the number of views of this clip. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLqgm6ig37vPqJs.html

Team Fender!!! you guys make the worlds most solid reliable guitars that I'd gig with over a gibson anyday.

Steve. i know that theyre are. i own a gibson les paul and an american standard strat. ive always wanted a Real BC Rich. a good dean razorback and others. I just Like and Prefer fender for what I do

Steve as far as ukeleles go me personally id rather have a vintage mandolin. my girl can have the ukelele lol

very cool, I don't mean to take anything away from Grace, but come on Fender... Feng E FENG E!

millions of actually 😆she has fans from all over the world btw I'm from 🇵🇰

Love your comment!! Yes I do!! ‘Tens of thousands and decades’ and the company has been around for decades. They don’t just throw their hat in the ring for anyone. Some people over there see the writing on the wall. They see what we do, and are smart enough to know where she is heading. And for Grace to be first ukulele and youngest Fender, they REALLY see it. Such a validation for us who knew she was more wonderful than the usual

I had that feeling about her impact on the music business about 30 seconds into her AGT audition video from 2016. As a musician, you just know - She's on a different level-

I did too. I’m privileged to have watched her from that one night just like you. I remember hoping she was gonna do good just because of how much I loved when she said ‘thank you, my goodness’ to Mandel when he said she looked lovely. I thought to myself what a great and different little girl. And then just the second line in ‘I don’t play by the rules of the game’ I knew something special was going on

Well said all. And Thomas, Fender signed her on after a year, or even less. It's just taken them this long to get the ukes out to us. I'm not sure that Grace really knows how big having a Fender signature instrument is.

She's honestly over-hyped imo but good for her and glad she's happy I guess

I can do that too.

That’s not that big a deal. When you play and write for a little bit you start to hear things even when you aren’t playing them! But she is really talented!

im pretty sure most people can do that if they know anything about chords

To me she’s like the John Mayer of the ukulele in that John has that intricate knowledge of chords and can just pull some off the wall chord out of his head and put it to use. She has a good head for music

HotelPapa100 You cannot learn it they way she means it. You can be born with this ability to hear the chord inside your head or you can not be born with it and learn it to some degree.

OMG ! I hope Fender really knows what he get here! ..... Very few musicians are able to speak of the completeness of their art as Grace delivers us now.

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So emotional

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I am too!!!!! ☺

I love you and Grace so much Could you do ukulele reviews on them

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Very well said James.

John Steel I'll agree it's a slippery slope but Grace seems to have a handle on it. Here is part of her interview with Pop Crush : What advice would you give to young people who are considering auditioning for shows like AGT or The Voice? I think that it would just be to make sure that you're very, very secure with yourself. I've seen way too many insecure people get taken advantage of, and it's very, very sad because people can sniff that out so fast if you're unsure and insecure in yourself. They will take advantage of that. Just make sure you're really sure of yourself before you jump into anything, or else you might wake up and be like, "Who am I?" You might lose yourself, and that's a horrible feeling. Not letting people walk all over you, and learning boundaries, is a lifelong journey. Have you had experiences like that since getting into the music industry? Yeah, I mean, I think everyone has pretty much in the industry, but I feel like you just have to kind of set your ground because it is pretty current. It isn't like [it was in] the 2000s. They're not going to force you to be sexual, show your body, and do all these things that you don't want to do. If you stand your ground and show them who you are, like my label knows who I am ... America's Got Talent, when I was on that show, they started to know who I was and realized, "Okay, we can't touch her."

Well said! I think what we're seeing is Grace keeping less and giving away more. Where the Little Miracles come in. Fender taking credit for giving away ukes but the cost is coming from her share in this deal no doubt. This is just business to them and it has to make sense in their books. Fender is pretty new to the uke world. As Grace gets more and more popular this deal will only make them profit more. Fair to assume they are not doing this for the betterment of humanity. So in the end it is really credit to Grace that bringing back music to schools is an outcome of this partnership.

I think you're completely right although I don't feel the bussiness part so much, her signature uke's start at $99 (unlike gibsons new $3000 models). I think it's much more important to show kids what music is like and making sure kids in the future will also be playing instruments and making new music.

I think there has been a pretty good balance between profit and charity here on Fender's part. They aren't going to make a mint on ukes but their name will get put out there and there will be some young Fender uke players that will go on to be lifetime Fender players, just like Chevy owners that would never think to by a Ford. I was a bit shocked that the ukes were as inexpensive as the are. (BTW I have a concert on order). I do think that Fender realized that they needed to keep the price down because not too many kids, or their parents, are going to shell out much more than $100 on a uke. Even Grace's parents didn't get her one cuz they thought she wouldn't play it. So, she used her birthday money. She sure showed them. Last estimates I heard she's worth around $2M! I would like to believe that there is some humanity involved on Fender's part. I don't see them exploiting their donations. There aren't any, "Look what we're doing" commercials on TV, (although they could make a heckuva Superbowl commercial with Grace. Think Windex).

Completely agree, sure it's still a company which needs to make a profit out of everything they sell. But then again it's great they're letting music continue to be shown to kids. I remember my parents not willing to spend too much on my first guitar thinking I wouldn't play it anymore after a week, but I'm so glad now that they did cause I never had any musical classes before I picked up the guitar. I just knew a bud' of mine was playing guitar and I wanted to do so too, but for so many kids it won't go like that if no one encourages them to pick up an instrument and they end up never doing so either.

I cannot described it better :)

Well said I wish we had more adults like grace especially in the entertainment business

That statement might have been put there for marketing effect. I don't think she didn't know at that point. It has been mentioned multiple times over the process. Kinda like the phony treehouse "reveal". Come on, the build has gone on for weeks in her backyard, right outside her bedroom window, and you are telling me she sees it for the first time?

Hence "poker face" :)

Yep. And I'm sure she feels EXACTLY as you described. SOOO STINKIN' PROUD! And good on her, she has earned it.

Actually, this was probably filmed at the same time as the Better Life video, so probably a good six months back, judging by the fact that that one was uploaded June 1 and there are barely any leaves on the trees in the video. So who knows, maybe at that time she was not actually aware of this little detail?

Good point.

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That's so contradictive, huh? Why follow someone you hate? It's a lot like bullying. If you don't like someone, stay away from them. It only makes sense. If you feel the need to bully it's because of a personal character flaw and no fault of the bully-ee.

IKR! Well, they crucified Jesus. Why not hate on this young girl.

If you are not already aware, many of her early performances are on You Tube. Go to her channel, "Oh never mind it's just me", (watch her cover of Exes and Ohs for a special treat), or search Grace VanderWaal Bean Runner Café. You can literally watch her videos all day there are so many.

Yeah I know Grace well. You can watch my Grace playlists on my channel 😊 Actually those few seconds with the pink shirt is from August 8, 2016 at The Bean Runner Cafe. Definitely it isn't her first live performance.

Yep, but picked as a good illustration of the "shaking as a leaf" statement. I think the earliest BRC Video available is "Trouble", right?

True. That's how I take it. Well, "Trouble" is the first performance before an audience Grace posted, but it's known that on October 18, 2015 she performed at The Cool Beans open mic in Kindercomak Rd / Oradelle, although there's no video recording of that. There's only one pic playing the Uke in front of a mic. Also we know Grace got her Uke in early 2015, so surely she performed even before October 2015

is it?? it showed up in my recommended

really .....you did that omg that makes me guilty because I haven't beg for something that evolves my favorite artist now I want an undercut but its not allowed in our school 😢but still love love Grace vanderwaal 💕😍

really now I want undercut hair hahahaha 😂 all I have to do is beg my mom to I hope this works and by the way Grace is the reason why I buy my first ukulele and its coming soon 😍💖

It is. Many places are selling it. I don't know why Fender isn't plugging it more. I hope they start using it for their donations to schools, now.

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Completement en accord avec toi Jeannine, quel phénomene!

They're getting there. I've seen a huge increase in ukes used by rock artists in the last few years.

She was born in Kansas. She's lucky her music isn't flat.

Aww how can you not like grace