New York's Grace VanderWaal is a heartfelt pop singer who broke through by winning the 11th season of NBC's performance competition America's Got Talent with her ukulele songs. After her first EP, Perfectly Imperfect, hit the Billboard 200 Top Ten, she issued her Top 30-charting, more fully arranged debut full-length, Just the Beginning, in 2017. The leading role in a pair of Disney music-themed films, Stargirl (2020) and Hollywood Stargirl (2022) were up next for VanderWaal, who continued to release non-soundtrack singles like 2022's "Lion's Den."
Born in Kansas in 2004, Van...