Skylar Grey

ABOUT

With a voice like heaven and lyrics like bruises, pop provocateur Skylar Grey is illuminating the honest messy corners of being human. The Wisconsin native, five-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi platinum artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for her collaborations with Eminem, Dr. Dre, Macklemore, and Zedd, to name a few, as well as her contributions to films such as Venom 2, Aquaman, 50 Shades of Grey, and the Fast and Furious franchise, is slated to release her new album, WASTED POTENTIAL, in the Spring of 2026. WASTED POTENTIAL is a diary cracked open — an intimate, nostalgic, coming-of-age story told in 11 songs.

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"She's one of the top 5 most talented people I've worked with"

-EMINEM

"THERE WAS A SONG BY SKYLAR GREY CALLED ‘FINAL WARNING’; SHE'S FIRE.

THAT ONE AND ‘WEAR ME OUT,’ OH MY GOD, THAT SONG, WHEN I WAS 10, 11, ALL I WANTED WAS TO HAVE WRITTEN A SONG LIKE THAT. SHE'S SO BADASS. ‘FINAL WARNING’ TOTALLY INFLUENCED ‘BELLYACHE.’"

-BILLIE EILISH

"I think she's one of the greatest songwriters that's ever lived"

- Jelly Roll

CREDITS

The songstress has quietly cast a long shadow over popular music and culture. Her first foray into the Billboard Top 10 was in 2006, when going under her birth name, Holly Brook, she collaborated with Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda on a song called “Where’d You Go.” Her 2013 full-length debut as Skylar Grey, Don’t Look Down, bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200. In 2016, the follow-up Natural Causes generated tens of millions of streams. Simultaneously, she performed on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, TODAY, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Sought-after by top collaborators, she lent her voice to Dr. Dre’s double-platinum “I Need A Doctor” [feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey], Diddy-Dirty Money’s double-platinum “Coming Home” [feat. Skylar Grey], and Macklemore’s platinum “Glorious” [feat. Skylar Grey], which amassed enough streams to join Spotify's Billions Club in 2025, to name a few.

Eminem and Skylar Grey performing on SNL

Skylar and Nicki Minaj on the AMA's

Skylar Grey performing at Sofi Stadium with Kaskade & Deadmau5 July 17, 2021

Not to mention, her songwriting catalog spans the triple-platinum “Clarity” for Zedd, the platinum “Gangsta” for Kehlani, and more. Plus, she has contributed music to big screen franchises such as Fifty Shades of Grey, Aquaman, and The Fast and The Furious, among others.

To date, she has sold over 30 million units worldwide and earned the adoration of artists such as Billie Eilish. She also notably produced and featured on “Leaving Heaven” from Eminem’s 2020 #1 blockbuster Music To Be Murdered By. In 2021, she unleashed, “Last One Standing” [feat. Polo G, Mozzy, & Eminem], which served as the lead single from Venom: Let There Be Carnage and cracked the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her very first RIAA certified Gold song as the main artist. Most recently, in 2022, she collaborated with Illenium on “From The Ashes,” and with EDM legend Deadmau5 on, “My Heart Has Teeth,” for Netflix series, Resident Evil.