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Where It All Started

A quick look at his Wikipedia page shows that Conan Gray was born on December 5 in 1998, but far more interesting than his birth date are his roots. Conan was born in California to an Irish and Japanese mother, but his family moved to Japan for some years when he was a young kid. It wasn’t the first or last time he moved, because after his parents divorced, when he was three years old, he moved over ten times.

As a 15-year-old teenager, Conan started his own YouTube channel where he could share his stories and music. It was his first important step in becoming an artist and is still a very important source for inspiration because it learned him to open up to a big audience and taught him how he can articulate his emotions. 

Coming of Age

After relocating to California, Conan recorded his first single “Idle Town” in his bedroom with a $25 microphone he bought on Amazon and signed at Republic for his first EP Sunset Season. Conan wrote the five songs during his last year at high school, which eventually formed the apotheosis of his teen years and can be labeled as “coming of age”. Songs like “Generation Why” and “Crush Culture” are a representation of the misconception and misinterpretation the youth of the 21st generation has to face but foremost illustrates the vulnerability of Gray’s songwriting.