Sometimes life can change completely in a matter of months. Just ask Alyssa Grace. At the beginning of 2026, the nineteen-year-old Californian was waiting tables at The Cheesecake Factory. Now, with 450 million global streams, over eleven million monthly Spotify listeners and a Billboard Hot 100 hit, she’s headlining her own tour.
We catch her in one of the busiest months of her life. Her first North American headline tour, wanna be singer, sold out in just five seconds, leaving her overwhelmed with gratitude. She even intervened when bots and resellers targeted several dates, cancelling tickets offered at inflated prices to protect her fans. But between rehearsals, travelling and performing, she’s found time to release new music.
Her latest single, washing skin, is arguably her most vulnerable work to date. Beginning with intimate acoustic melodies, the track gradually builds into layers of vocals, urgent guitars and thunderous drums. “You never had the right to blame me, I was young, mad, and 17,” she sings, revisiting painful memories with a mixture of anger and newfound strength.
“For the longest time, this wasn’t something I was ready to share,” she admitted. It’s another glimpse into the emotional honesty that defined her debut EP, spilling my guts, and helped turn bloodstream into a gold-certified hit.
Since performing her first major show in August before 10,000 people in New Zealand alongside Alex Warren, Grace has barely stopped. Her current tour continues across North America through December, with stops in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, before she heads to Cancún for Noah Kahan’s Out of the Blue Festival in January. With so much happening at once, washing skin reminds us that behind the extraordinary numbers is a young artist still discovering how much she has to say.
