Jensen McRae

Jensen McRae

Pop singer, composer, vocalist, musician, artist, entertainer, performer, Instagram star, online content creator, social media personality, and songwriter who initially rose to fame with the release of her songs "White Boy" and "Wolves." Born in Santa Monica and raised in the Woodland Hills suburbs of Los Angeles, in a bi-racial black and Jewish family, McRae was immersed in music at a young age. While in high school, McRae attended GRAMMY Camp in Los Angeles and received a full ride to attend the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She later graduated with a degree in popular music performance. McRae describes herself as a worldly person and describes her music as folk alternative pop. In 2019 she released her first single, “White Boy,” which garnered attention from Refinery29, Earmilk, and Wonderland Magazine. In 2020 she released singles “Wolves” and “The Plague,” which were released at the beginning of the pandemic. McRae was named KCRW’s favorite new artists of 2020 and NPR’s Slingshot’s 2021 Artists To Watch. She has also been included in #YOUTUBEBLACK Voices Artist Class of 2021. She recently released a clip playing the imagined first few lines of a Phoebe Bridgers song from a potential album in 2023, spoofing on the Bridgers impeccable wordplay. The clip caught the attention of the "Bridgers" - the tribute clip went viral, streaming over 2.3M times. McRae went into the studio with executive producer Rahki (Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, EarthGang, Kari Faux, Syd, Rejjie Snow, Sampa The Great, etc.) and wrote and recorded a full version of “Immune,” out now. “Jensen McRae was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles in a mixed-race family immersed in music. She knew from the first time she heard Alicia Keys streaming through her mother’s stereo as a toddler that she would spend her life making music of her own. Now 23, McRae is poised for a monumental 2021, with her long-awaited debut album set to drop any minute now. Though she only has a few songs currently available, each

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ABOUT Pop singer, composer, vocalist, musician, artist, entertainer, performer, Instagram star, online content creator, social media personality, and songwriter who initially rose to fame with the release of her songs "White Boy" and "Wolves." BEFORE FAME She began to study the piano at the young age of seven. As a high school student, she attended the Grammy Camp. TRIVIA She holds a bachelor's degree in popular music performance. She earned the degree from the University of Southern California. Her popularity has led to her amassing more than 180,000 followers on her verified jensenmcrae Instagram account. FAMILY LIFE She is of black and Jewish descent. Born in Santa Monica and raised in the Woodland Hills suburbs of Los Angeles, in a bi-racial black and Jewish family, McRae was immersed in music at a young age. While in high school, McRae attended GRAMMY Camp in Los Angeles and received a full ride to attend the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She later graduated with a degree in popular music performance. McRae describes herself as a worldly person and describes her music as folk alternative pop. In 2019 she released her first single, “White Boy,” which garnered attention from Refinery29, Earmilk, and Wonderland Magazine. In 2020 she released singles “Wolves” and “The Plague,” which were released at the beginning of the pandemic. McRae was named KCRW’s favorite new artists of 2020 and NPR’s Slingshot’s 2021 Artists To Watch. She has also been included in #YOUTUBEBLACK Voices Artist Class of 2021. She recently released a clip playing the imagined first few lines of a Phoebe Bridgers song from a potential album in 2023, spoofing on the Bridgers impeccable wordplay. The clip caught the attention of the "Bridgers" - the tribute clip went viral, streaming over 2.3M times. McRae went into the studio with executive producer Rahki (Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, EarthGang, Kari Faux, Syd, Rejjie Snow, Sampa The Great, etc.) and wrote and recorded a full version of “Immune,” out now. “Jensen McRae was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles in a mixed-race family immersed in music. She knew from the first time she heard Alicia Keys streaming through her mother’s stereo as a toddler that she would spend her life making music of her own. Now 23, McRae is poised for a monumental 2021, with her long-awaited debut album set to drop any minute now. Though she only has a few songs currently available, each one reveals her to be a songwriter most adept at placing listeners inside her experience, and showing how universal that experience can be.” – Anne Litt, KCRW, NPR 2021 Artist To Watch From the very beginning, fans have fallen in love with Jensen McRae for the sharp, evocative and clear-eyed songwriting. McRae songwriting is vulnerable, yes, but it’s also powerful for not holding back. Now, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me! delivers McRae’s evolution from a promising young artist to a bona fide songwriter and star. "The most profound choices of my life,” says McRae, “have often felt like things I did before I was ready to do, and I had to grow into them.” I Don’t Know How But They Found Me! is about what follows when you have withstood what you thought might crush you. It’s about meeting your limits and learning what you’re capable of. “I connected with the idea that I could've easily collapsed beneath the weight of what happened to me, but I didn't. I didn't even know it,” she says, “but I was bulletproof the whole time." Born and raised in LA, Jensen McRae has studied and made music for most of her life. She attended Grammy Camp in high school and graduated from USC’s Thornton School of Music with a degree in Popular Music. McRae’s debut album, Are You Happy Now?, was written mostly when she was just 21, and was the first step in developing her now-devoted fanbase. Are You Happy Now? navigates identity from its deepest foundations – life as a young, bi-racial Black and Jewish woman – to its most personal musings – do I trust you, do I trust myself. McRae’s trust in herself has borne out on multiple occasions, most recently and maybe most famously in the form of "Massachusetts". McRae posted a solo verse and chorus, little more than a piece of a demo, and it caught fire online. Covers, duets, and an avalanche of new fans followed, and McRae capped the moment with a finished version and a summerlong tour supporting Noah Kahan. I Don’t Know How but They Found Me! Takes McRae’s now-considerable powers and hardwires them for mass appeal. Stealth single “Savannah” is one for the yearners. The pulsing, country-adjacent song immediately brings the best of Phoebe Bridgers to mind, with McRae singing in an acrobatic whisper over a feather light acoustic guitar. By the time “Savannah” hits its crescendo, it’s crystal clear McRae is an artist with her own singular power, as piano layers with guitar and McRae delivers a series of scathing indictments with grit and conviction: "You swore you'd raise our kids to end up just like you / well you're a false prophet / and that's a goddamn promise." Meanwhile “Let Me Be Wrong” is a bona fide anthem, a “buoyant ode to rejecting perfectionism.” Built once again on a simple vocal and acoustic guitar, “Let Me Be Wrong” builds step over step in its defiance; guitars layer, drums pick up the pace, and McRae makes space for everyone’s mistakes. When McRae growls “**** those girls got everything” it’s a punch of both power and vulnerability, begging to be shouted in unison the biggest possible crowd. The unusual title of her second album is taken from a line in McRae's favorite film, Back to the Future. A key protagonist survives a hail of bullets, and the image resonated with McRae because, she said, she often feels a connection to some future self guiding her decisions, especially in times of crisis. It also inspired the album’s cover, as McRae stands in a custom fireman’s coat with the job’s official marks and symbols stitched alongside abundant ones of herown. The effect caught her off-guard; “I was surprised how emotional it made me to be in the fire coat,” she says, “forced to stand still, stand powerfully. I could feel myself becoming a symbol of my own hero’s journey." If Are You Happy Now? was her coming of age, I Don't Know How But They Found Me! is Jensen McRae all grown up.