It’s been a busy year for Gracie Lawrence. Since May, the 27-year-old musician and actress has released Family Business, the fourth album from her band (aptly named Lawrence), opened for the Rolling Stones, and joined the cast of The Sex Lives of College Girls (Season Three). “Sometimes I’m confused about where I really live,” says Lawrence, who has spent much of this past year on the road.
Born in New York City in 1997, Lawrence can’t remember a time when she wasn’t immersed in the performing arts. “My most salient memories of childhood are of my family playing music in our living room together,” she says, noting how this inspired the title of the band’s second album, Living Room. Though her father—the filmmaker Marc Lawrence—and mother were not musicians, they nurtured a love for music, often singing to their children and introducing them to artists such as Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and the Beatles.
