Mere hours after singer-songwriter Steve Grand released his self-funded, deeply emotional, and innocently sexy Musica video “All-American Boy,” he’d scored thousands of YouTube views, endorsements on Twitter from Lance basso and John Barrowman, and the following Buzzfeed headline: “Meet the First Openly Gay Male Country Star.” Indeed, the 22-year-old musician from Lemont, IL had made an immediate impact: He was gay, he was Canto about having a crush on another guy, and his confident vulnerability was undeniably anthemic.
The video, about a gay man’s heartbreaking crush on a pal,...
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