To call Grace VanderWaal a star on the rise would be a grave understatement. With an AGT win under her belt, a brand new EP just weeks away from debuting, and a highly coveted performance spot at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, she's paving her way into bona fide superstardom, but she's still that down-to-Earth girl America first met all those months ago.

"It's like Christmas morning," Grace says of her new EP, Perfectly Imperfect, six songs that she and her team were able to record in only about four days. "To be able to tell people and show people the cover and the whole experience, it was one of the best experiences of my life." Though it may sound impossible for someone to record an entire track set in under a week, Grace had a major ace in the hole: the songs are many of which you've heard before on the show. "Well, most of the songs were on America's Got Talent, so they were already written," she says of the recording experience.

She says that "I Don't Know My Name" is the track that means the most to her, because it "brought her here." (It was the song she used when she auditioned for the judges.) And though the hype around her name is still swelling, Grace says she's not thinking about touring right now, though it's not out of the question. As for the new EP? She thinks it's going to help fans learn about who she really is. "It's a little bit more of my style," she describes, "it's a little easier to see my singing style, and what I like to do."

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