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*Perfectly Imperfect* is Grace’s VanderWaal’s debut EP. It features 4 songs of which she performed on *America's Got Talent* (*I Don’t Know My Name,* *Beautiful Thing, Light The Sky,* and *Clay*) and an additional song titled *Gossip Girl*. The Walmart edition includes the coffeehouse version of a song named *Missing You*. On November 14, 2016, Grace announced *Perfectly Imperfect* would be released on December 2, 2016.

## Background and the making of *Perfectly Imperfect*

Grace won *America's Got Talent* on September 14, 2016 at the age of 12. She then signed a contract to release *Perfectly Imperfect* with Columbia Records and Syco Music.

The EP was recorded and produced in a few days. Grace told *Billboard* "We wanted to strike while the iron was hot, and before some people forgot, We didn't want to release it and have people be like, 'Oh hey, isn’t that the girl from that show?' We wanted to keep the momentum going. So almost immediately, we tried to do it as fast as possible, and in a matter of days, this EP was finished.”

Greg Wells produced the EP. Grace wrote and composed the lyrics to all of the songs. “I wasn’t sure what I was walking into by working with Grace in the studio,” producer Greg Wells recalls of working with VanderWaal on *Perfectly Imperfect*. “It was her first time ever in a proper recording studio and I envisioned several different potential horror stories. Within the first 10 minutes of working on music together, I was happily surprised to find that I was working with a real artist who could speak the language of record making.” Greg Wells noted much of Grace's musical knowledge seemed innate saying, “There were many times in our recording sessions when Grace would suggest an idea that I wasn’t sure would work, but as soon as we tried it, it made the song better,that’s a skill that takes most of us years to hone and develop, yet somehow this was pouring out of her at age 12 during her first time in the studio.”

Grace told *USA Today* "I never really understood how you made a song, because I never really thought about it, but it was really cool to see the process. It was like watching your baby grow."

Grace told *Music Choice* she decided to name the EP *Perfectly Imperfect* based on something Simon Cowell had said, which was “Your voice is croaky and different, but that’s what makes it perfect.”

## Singles

Grace’s only single from *Perfectly Imperfect*, *I Don’t* *Know My Name*, was released on November 18, 2016.

## Lyric Videos

Grace VanderWaal - I Don't Know My Name (Lyric)Grace VanderWaal - Clay (Lyric)Grace VanderWaal - Light The Sky (Lyric)Grace VanderWaal - Beautiful Thing (Lyric)Grace VanderWaal - Gossip Girl (Lyric)
## Promotion

In between finishing the EP and releasing it, Grace sang *Light The Sky* at the NY Nicks Halftime show at the Madison Square Garden in New York, *I Don’t Know My Name* at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and *I Don’t Know My Name* on the Today Show. After *Perfectly Imperfect* was released, she did several interviews for radio stations like Radio Disney and sang *I Don’t Know My Name* at the iHeart Radio Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden in New York. In early 2017, she kept doing interviews for radio stations like the Elvis Duran show and kept performing songs from *Perfectly Imperfect* at events like WE Day. In June 2017, she traveled to Japan to promote *Perfectly Imperfect*.

## Release day

Grace celebrated the release of *Perfectly Imperfect* by doing a tea release party at Alice’s Tea Cup in New York City.

## Chart performance

On December 24, 2016, *Perfectly Imperfect* peaked at #9 on Billboard 200.