Alayna Thompson
Alayna Thompson, known on social media as Alayna Grace, is a singer and songwriter whose career launched on TikTok. In a Utah Business article, she said that “the phrase ‘overnight success’ is kind of overused, but there’s no other way to describe what happened to me.”[1]
Alayna grew up in Bountiful, Utah, and her friends would tweet about her high school performance. She recalls that one of those tweets was retweeted thousands of times, but she did not start posting herself until TikTok seemed like the rights spot for her. Her cover of a Sam Smith song went viral and soon led her to have 300,000 followers. When she saw that she could make a career out of her singing, she dropped some of her classes at Brigham Young University and set aside her goal of going to school to become a PA.
She and her husband also relocated to Los Angeles as opportunities came to collaborate with other artists.
Her Sam Smith cover has over a million streams on Spotify. She is also recording and mixing new music.
