Skylar Grey

My great grandma was an opera singer.

So I just was like born into an extremely musical family.

And, um,

When I was like two, we were singing happy birthday to one of my aunts and I started singing a harmony.

And my mom was like, what is going on?

How's a two year old singing harmony?

I wasn't even able to like say all the words, but the notes I was singing were like the harmony part.

And then with all her bands that she was playing with all the time, I would be at the rehearsals and chiming in and then they would like bring me up on stage to do little guest appearances.

And it was just very clear that that's what I wanted to do.

Wow.

And so when I was six, we put together our first like hour long set and I played at a library, me and my mom together.

And it was a Mother's Day show, Madison, Wisconsin.

So I'm from Mazomania.

It's like a 1500 person, really small village, basically in Wisconsin.

And so then I just loved it.

And so we started touring around the Midwest and played a lot of music.

Really random venues like elementary schools, libraries, women's health conventions.

I think one of the biggest shows I ever did was actually a Boy Scouts thing.

And it was like 1,500 Boy Scouts.

How old were you?