Laura Jane Grace

Laura Jane Grace is an American musician best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me. Starting as a solo act in 1997, Against Me expanded into a quartet and released six studio albums, experiencing breakthrough success with 2007s New Wave and 2010s White Crosses. Grace also released a solo EP, Heart Burns, in 2008. In 2011, she founded the Total Treble recording studio and an accompanying record label, Total Treble Music.

Grace was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, the child of United States Army Major Thomas Gabel and Bonnie Gabel . The family moved frequently between military bases, living briefly in Fort Hood, Texas Pennsylvania Ohio Germany and at a NATO post in Italy during the Gulf War. When she wasyears old, , Grace bought her first guitar, and took guitar lessons from an army officer. Grace experienced feelings of gender dysphoria from an early age, playing with Barbie dolls and fantasizing about being Madonna.

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