· Brett Grace was born in Jackson, Mississippi on March 22nd, making him an Aries.

· Brett Grace’s surname pays homage to the maternal side of his family, as his grandmother Anna and mother Anne’s names mean “grace.”

· Though they don’t share the same last name, Grace’s father is Robert S. McElvaine, a renowned author and historian who is considered one of the world’s leading historians on the Great Depression. In 2022, McElvaine published his eleventh book “The Times They Were a-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn,” which the author dedicated to his son: “for Brett, a child of the sixties, born in 1988.”

· According to a Ms. Magazine profile, Brett’s mother, Anne McElvaine, grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island. A retired special-needs eduction teacher, Anne is also described as a humanitarian, an avid reader, and world traveler. She is the mother of four children, and grandmother of three children.

· Brett’s parents have been married for over 50 years, after having met at a New York club called The Hofbrau.

· A 3-year-old Brett Grace made his acting debut in a regional commercial for My Favorite Spaghetti, a take-out pasta restaurant which became a Jackson, Mississippi favorite for the ten years it was open.

· Brett Grace has remarked that his parents, along with singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani “made me who I am,” prompting Stefani to tweet a photo of herself with Brett and his parents, writing “Love u Brett Grace, cute parents=not surprised Gx”

· Since age 7, Brett has suffered from generalized depression and anxiety disorder.

· Brett is a melomaniac, having a great enthusiasm for music, for which he credits his three older sisters, from which he inherited much of his eclectic music collection. His middle sister Lauren would regularly play MTV for Brett when he was a toddler, and when his youngest sister Allison grew out of her grunge phase, she gave Brett her Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins albums, while his eldest sister Kerri introduced Brett to heavier acts like Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction.

· The first album Brett ever bought with his allowance was “One Hot Minute” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

· At age 9, Brett wrote his first song “Narnie Come Home,” inspired by an affectionate baby-nickname for his sister Lauren. The following year, he wrote and recored (albeit not professionally) a song called “A Dream In The World” on the home computer. Though he showed some lyrical promise, Brett struggled with accepting his lack of musical ability, and thus conceptualized a project under the moniker Kyle Madison--Kyle, a name his mother had considered naming Brett, proceeding to record himself singing out of key and strumming along on a guitar, making up an album’s worth of songs.

· After the Columbine High School massacre, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson became the only artist Brett Grace’s otherwise liberal parents wouldn’t allow him to listen to as a child.

·As editor of his school newspaper, Brett wrote a regular column titled “This Day In Music,” where he reflected on music released on the same date in previous years.

· In junior high, Brett would sometimes dress flamboyantly as a form of rebellion against his conservative hometown. He has never labeled his sexuality, previously explaining,“Sexuality doesn’t define me, so I don’t define it. I treat sexuality the way I think it should be treated—that everyone’s somewhere on the spectrum; with equality, not superiority.”

· Near the end of junior high, Brett developed a school avoidance phobia, where a cycle of anxiety and sleep disturbances led him to miss more than half of the school year.

· At 15, Brett moved to Los Angeles to live with his sister, Lauren, and to receive treatment for anxiety and panic disorder at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. After completing the program, UCLA recommended that Brett transfer to a nearby high school.

· Despite coming from an academic family, Brett wasn’t fond of school and ended up switching schools frequently. Over various periods, and sometimes repeatedly, he attended Saint Joseph Catholic School, Fairfax High School, City of Angels Alternative School, Downtown Magnets High School, The Westview School, and multiple online and independent study programs.

· Brett got the boot from a Los Angeles high school on his first day for wearing a t-shirt with the logo “FCUK,” French Connection United Kingdom’s controversial slogan.

· When he was 16, Brett Grace appeared alongside Judy Greer and French Stewart in the short film “Party Girl,” directed by actress Katherine LaNasa.

· When he was 18, Brett lived in Wellington, New Zealand with his parents while his father was a Fulbright Scholar researching at the National Library of New Zealand.

· When he was 19, Brett returned to Los Angeles where he has maintained primary residence ever since.

· Brett revealed in an Instagram post that he attended Malibu High School’s senior prom with his date Jennifer Allen.

· Brett has appeared as a background actor on several television shows including Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Greek.

· In July 2016, singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani dedicated a live performance of her song “Danger Zone” to Brett Grace.

· In addition to having appeared in music videos for Beck, Gwen Stefani, No Doubt, Shakespears Sister, Holly Miranda, and Billy Corgan, Brett has also worked extensively behind-the-scenes in the music video industry.

· Brett worked on controversial tour visuals for The Chicks - DCX MMXVI World Tour.

· Brett also worked on the tour visuals for Gwen Stefani’s This Is What The Truth Feels Like Tour.

· In October 2022, Brett released “The Emancipation of B.G. (Cally Fest),” a reggae dub he created on Logic Pro during a period of isolation. The title is a reference to Mariah Carey’s album “The Emancipation of Mimi.”

· In August 2024, Brett shared a sample of demo for a song called “Passenger (I Couldn’t Get It Right).”

· Brett Grace is in the process of writing his first book; a collection of short-stories and essays entitled “In Lieu of Real Life.”

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