Alyssa Grace revisits a painful memory from her teens on “washing skin,” released November 6 via Artist House. The single arrives as the 19-year-old singer-songwriter begins the North American leg of her wanna be singer tour, which the label says sold out in seconds.
Grace layers her voice into a choir before an acoustic guitar brings the song down to the scale of a private conversation. As the guitar picks up speed and the drums grow louder, she addresses the person who held her responsible for what happened when she was 17. “You never had the right to blame me,” she sings.
“For the longest time this wasn’t something I was ready to share,” Grace wrote when she announced the song. “But when I wrote it, I knew it was something I had to put out into the world.”
The Torrance, California, musician was still waiting tables when “bloodstream,” a single from her debut EP spilling my guts, entered the Billboard Hot 100 in June. The track went on to reach No. 45 and earned RIAA Gold certification in under three months, according to Artist House.
Grace recently returned to “bloodstream” after fans told her they sang “I am my father’s daughter” with their mothers in mind. She recorded “bloodstream (mother’s version)” with a new verse reflecting that shift.
In August, Grace played her first major show, opening for Alex Warren in front of 10,000 people in New Zealand. Her own North American headline dates run through December. She is also set to perform at Noah Kahan’s Out of the Blue Festival in Cancún in January 2027.
