who wrote the song i dont know my name
Grace VanderWaal On the June 7, 2016, broadcast during the eleventh season of NBC's AGT, VanderWaal auditioned with her original song, "I Don't Know My Name", and was Howie Mandel's "golden buzzer" act.[14][18] Simon Cowell called VanderWaal "the next Taylor Swift."[19] Brittany Spanos in Rolling Stone magazine termed the song an "emotional, catchy, quirky tune".[20] VanderWaal continued to perform only original songs on the show, including her next performance at the quarterfinals on August 23, 2016, titled "Beautiful Thing", a song written for her sister; USA Today characterized VanderWaal's voice as "endearingly croaky".[21] Others have called it "raspy"[22] and "timelessly soulful".[23] For the semifinals on August 30, she performed "Light the Sky",[14] and for the September 13 finals, she sang "Clay", a song about dealing with bullies.[24] Lindsay Peoples wrote for New York Magazine: "The songs she wrote and performed on AGT were not only catchy but emotional and unique to her own sound, a mix of raw and folk".[25] AGT's video of VanderWaal's audition has accumulated more than 70 million views.[26] It was ranked as the No. 5 trending YouTube video of 2016.[27]