LP  Biography

Laura Pergolizzi (March 18, 1981) Singer and songwriter. She was born on Long Island, United States. She is artistically known as LP. She began singing in the late 90s and in 2001 she made her debut with the album Heart-Shaped Scar. This was followed by Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol in 2004 and Forever For Now in 2014. She is famous for having written songs like Love Will Keep You Up All Night by Backstreet Boys, More is More by Heidi Montag, and Cheers (Drink to That) by Rihanna.

In 2017, she rose to fame for her single Lost On You and since then she is considered one of the references of the pop-rock scene of the moment.

Early life

Her mother is Irish and her father Italian. She attended the Walt Whitman Institute in the 1990s and then moved to New York, where she began to become known as an artist by adopting the name LP (her initials). Back then, she would work with a band performing before 100 or 50 people per event. She finally made her debut, in 2001, with Heart-Shaped Scar, an eleven-song album that included songs like Love Somebody, Kiss It All Goodbye, and When I’m Not With You, among others.

Career

After her debut, LP made several appearances in the United States, achieving moderate success. In 2004, she released her second album Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol through Lightswitch Records. The album consisted of eleven songs, including tracks like Wasted, Get Over Yourself, and Change of Scenery.

Despite the tour she went on to promote the album and the good reviews it received, the work failed to stand out. Two years after its release, LP participated in the South by Southwest conference, drawing the attention of several record labels, among which she would choose Island Def Jam as her future home. However, a year later she moved to SoBe Entertainment, an independent label where she continued to work with what she had developed from her previous label. One of these songs was Love Will Keep You Up All Night, which was included in the Backstreet Boys album Unbreakable (2007).

Starting in 2009 she started writing songs for other artists. She co-wrote the single More is More and the tracks Hey Boy, Love It or Leave It and Twisted from Heidi Montag’s album Superficial (2010) and the song Standing Where You Left Me, included on Erik Hassle’s debut album Pieces ( 2010). That same year she signed a contract with the RedOne label and soon after gained recognition for Cheers,

a song included on Rihanna’s fifth album Loud (2010). She also worked with Cristiana Aguilera on the song Beautiful People.

In 2011 she co-wrote Afraid to Sleep, a song that was performed on The Voice by finalist Vicci Martinez, reaching number 10 on the iTunes top. That same year he left Red One and joined Warner Bros. Records, releasing under this a year later his live album Into the Wild: Live at EastWest Studios (2012). In this, they appeared subjects like Into the Wild, Levitaror, and Tokio Sunrise. With this new album, she performed at various music festivals such as Bonnaroo, SXSW, Bumbershoot, Lollapalooza, and Tropfest and also at Hyde Park in London and Sonic Boom in Tokyo.

Forever for Now and hit Lost on You

Thanks to the success that she achieved with the album, that year she would be chosen artist of the week by Vogue. In the next two years, she focused on the recordings of her next album, which would have several collaborations with Isabella Summers, Billy Steinberg, Claude Kelly, and Josh Alexander, among others. On June 3, 2014, she released her hit album Forever for Now, which was promoted with the singles Night Like This

and Someday. A year later, he returned with Muddy Waters, a promotional single from his fifth album Lost on You, released in December 2016. The album included songs like Strange, When We’re High, No Witness, and Lost on You, a song that went viral in Europe in early 2017. In addition to Lost on You, in 2016 LP released the EP Death Valley.

In 2017 she performed Otto Knows’s Back Where I Belong alongside Avicii for one of Netflix’s episodes of Sense8 and collaborated with Mylène Farmer on the single N’oublie pas. The single quickly became number 1 on the French music charts. In August 2018, she released the single Girls Go Wild, and a few months later, she released her sixth studio album Heart to Mouth (2018). This latter consisted of twelve songs, including the promotional theme Girls Go Wild and the hit Recovery. Upon its release, the album achieved good results, ranking No. 2 on the U.S. Heatseekers Albums and No. 6 on the Polish Albums and Czech Albums.

It was recently announced that LP would be participating in the tribute album to Chester Bennington (lead singer Linkin Park), performed by his previous band Gray Daze.

LP’s partner is fellow singer Lauren Ruth Ward since 2015.