Young songwriter Gracie Schram interview by Kimberly Winter Stern

For Gracie Schram, an 11-year-old Leawood Middle School student, the shower is a creative laboratory where she hums original melodies and develops lyrics that become bona fide songs. The burgeoning young talent has penned songs since she was 7; her first ditty debuted on the school playground.

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