Grentperez, who plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on May 5, 2025. Credit: Photo via hellogrentperez/Facebook

No one should be surprised that a Filipino turned his love of the microphone into stardom. Grant Perez—aka Grentperez—got his start on YouTube and now serves his bedroom-born bossa nova beats to close to 800,000 subscribers.

A new album, Backflips in a Restaurant, features the Australian songwriter’s almost-saccharine vocal, which has earned him a following loyal enough to sell-out large clubs across the country.

Tickets to see Grentperez play Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, May 5 are still available for $30.

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This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...