That’s all good-and-well for the aspiring star. Although Steve is still without a manager or label, those are likely inevitable next steps considering all the hype he’s experiencing. Within days of its release, the song has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube. In a time when Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake produce videos with naked ladies, Steve’s is considered salacious for a whole different reason: It is all about his unrequited love for another man. I’m putting it all out there.”Īnd that’s exactly what he did in his self-funded, debut music video, “All-American Boy.” “I decided this is who I’m gonna be to the world.
“I think that we’re at a time now where there’s no room to be anything but totally honest and totally who you are,” the 23-year-old Chicago native told Buzzfeed.
Country music has one of its first out-and-proud vocalist in Steve Grand and - despite the limitations his sexuality would have posed in another era - Steve is well on his way to stardom.
