Greyson Chance @ Three Links
Sun Mar 10, 8:00 PM - Mon Mar 11, 7:00 AM

“There are no second acts in American lives.”So said American literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald. But of course he’s wrong. Sadly, he never had the opportunity of meeting Greyson Chance.This uniquely gifted singer/songwriter/instrumentalist enjoyed a spectacular Chapter 1. After all, how many other artists drew 14 million views to their debut singles on YouTube, not to mention roughly 100 million views on their YouTube page? And performedmultiple times on Ellen and other national TV outlets? And headlined in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila and elsewhere in Far Eastern Asia —twice?All before he was 17 years old?As Fitzgerald surely knew, when your story opens with a bang, that can be hard to follow. But Chance is about to change all that, with new music that captures not only his musical growth but also his skill at surviving the backwash of premature fame, finding his true creative compass and redefining himself as an artist.Gentle yet painfully honest. Spare in texture, emotionally turbulent. The music of Greyson Chance blends insight and irresolution with a sensitivity many artist three times his age have yet to achieve. He is a virtuoso of understatement, a plain-speaking poet and an artist whose time has come.Yet to be titled, his upcoming EP stems from years of reflection. Life-changing choices had to be made to bring him to this point. One of them involved acknowledging and embracing his orientation as a gay man. Perhapseven more courageously, he escaped the mixed blessings of celebrity, moved back to his home state of Oklahoma and enrolled at the University of Tulsa, where he remains a student even now.“That was the hardest decision I’ve ever made,” Chance muses. “I recorded my last EP, Somewhere Over My Head, in 2016. I was really proud of it. We took it to every label in L.A., knocked on everybody’s door. But the industry completely rejected me because when you start off young a lot of people don’t take you seriouslywhen you’re older. I had a really popular video when I was 12 years old, so when we’d go to meetings people would say, ‘I remember that video!’’ That’s all they wanted to talk about, so I realized I had to start building myself up again until I was ready to pick up the pieces and sta