EMI Grace got into guitar the same way a lot of skaters do — she grew up skating in Southern California, fell for rock and punk through skate videos, and got obsessed with the instrument from there, pulling from Tom Morello, No Doubt, and Van Halen in roughly equal measure. Trashy Tone Thursday, the weekly guitar-freestyle clips she started posting on social media, is what actually built her audience, racking up millions of views and Guitar World coverage along the way.
She's opened for Fitz & the Tantrums and K.Flay and played Red Rocks alongside It's Murph, off a debut EP titled Oh, Honey Isn't It A Shame Now and the more recent single 'SMH' — a guitar-first career that started as skate-video fandom rather than any formal training.