LP (singer)

LP, 2014

LP at the ZMF 2018 in Freiburg

LP (born March 18, 1968 , according to other sources 1981 in Huntington , New York as L aura P ergolizzi , LP ) is an American singer and songwriter with Italian and Irish roots.

life and career

Laura A. Pergolizzi was born in Huntington, Long Island , on March 18, 1968, the second child of lawyer Richard Pergolizzi and former opera singer Marie Pergolizzi (who died of cancer in 1986). Her older brother Richard Pergolizzi is a radiologist in Fairfax, Virginia. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Huntington in 1986 , attended Albany University, SUNY and moved to London after graduating in English Literature where she met her friend (and bassist) Alicia Godsberg with whom she started songs in 1991 composed. Both moved back to New York and formed a band called Lionfish in 1995, based on both zodiac signs (Leo and Pisces). Too Much Love, the first Lionfish CD was released in 1997, followed by Concrete in 2000. During this time LP worked in bars and restaurants and took singing lessons to control her voice. David Lowery of the band Cracker saw LP in the Lionfish performance, hired her as the backing singer on "Cinderella", a hidden track on the band's 1998 album, Gentleman's Blues, and took her as a guest on a tour of his band, whereupon she left her band Lionfish. He also participated in the production of their first studio album Heart Shaped Scar , which was released in 2001 on Koch Records . This was followed in 2004 with the second album called Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol , which she had developed with the producer and composer Linda Perry (ex- 4 Non Blondes ). The album was released through Lightswitch Records . Despite some good reviews, the album was largely unsuccessful. The song Wasted was used as the theme song for seasons 2 and 3 of the television series South of Nowhere on TeenNick a few years later . The MTV series The Hills also used a song from the album called Damage Is Done .

In 2006 LP visited the music fair South by Southwest (SXSW), where various record companies expressed their interest and a real bidding war arose. Eventually she signed with Def Jam Music Group , where she only stayed a few months. After artistic differences, she switched to SoBe Entertainment in 2007 . The song Love Will Keep You Up All Night , which she wrote with Billy Mann , was used on the reunited Backstreet Boys album Unbreakable . In 2009 LP began working as a songwriter for various artists . Especially on the album Superficial by Heidi Montag originate several songs, including the single More Is More , from her pen. Other artists she worked for were Cathy Dennos and Erik Hassle .

In 2010 LP moved to Los Angeles and signed with RedOne . For Rihanna's fifth studio album, she wrote the hit single Cheers (Drink to That) . She also co-wrote Christina Aguilera's top hit Beautiful People from the soundtrack to the film Burlesque . In 2011 she worked for The Voice finalist Vicci Martinez . She wrote the song Afraid to Sleep . Her own song Into the Wild was used for a Citibank commercial in September 2011 and also made the artist known to a mainstream audience.

In 2012 she signed with Warner Bros Records . This was followed by her major debut in 2012, the EP Into the Wild: Live at the EastWest Studios . She then performed at various festivals such as SXSW and Lollapalooza . In 2012 she was named "Artist of the Week" in Vogue fashion magazine . She also signed an endorsement deal with Martin Guitar . She also released a number of cover versions on video. These were created under the title The Ukulele Sessions on YouTube .

On June 3, 2014 her third album Forever for Now was released , on which she worked with Billy Steinberg , Isabella Summers ( Florence and the Machine ), Josh Alexander, Claude Kelly, Justyn Pilbrow , Carl Ryden and Rob Kleiner, among others . The producer was Rob Cavallo , who previously worked with Green Day and My Chemical Romance . The album reached number 132 on the Billboard 200 , making it her first chart success .

Her single Lost on You was released in 2016 , which helped the singer achieve her international breakthrough: the song reached the top of the charts in Greece and France , and the single also reached top 5 positions in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. In addition, the song was awarded triple platinum in Italy . In 2016 she also sang the song Back Where I Belong by the Swedish music producers and DJs Avicii and Otto Knows .

Laura Pergolizzi is engaged to Lauren Ruth Ward, who kisses her passionately at the very end of the official video clip for Lost on You . Lauren Ruth Ward can also be seen in the videos for Thightrope , Other People and When We Are High .

Music genre

LP plays indie rock with influences from pop . On her first albums she focuses on the ukulele and voice, set in music reminiscent of Bob Dylan . Although she works in mainstream pop and contemporary R&B songwriting , such influences were rarely found in her own songs. It was only with their album Forever for Now that there were some echoes of pop, especially through the production of Cavallo. Some of the songs are accompanied by dance beats , while their singing continues to be more in the direction of the singer-songwriters of the 1970s and reminiscent of Van Morrison and Tim Buckley . The song Lost on You breaks with these characteristics.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2001	Heart-Shaped Scar	-	-	-	-	-	First published: 2001
2004	Suburban Sprawl and Alcohol	-	-	-	-	-	First published: June 29, 2004
2014	Forever For Now	-	-	-	-	US132 (1 week) US	Initial Release: June 2, 2014 Sales: US: 16,000
2016	Lost on You	DE50 (7 weeks) DE	AT34 (7 weeks) AT	CH7 (34 weeks) CH	UK17 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 9, 2016 Sales: + 155,000
2018	Heart to Mouth	-	-	CH22 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: December 7th, 2018 Sales: + 10,000

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2012	Into the Wild: Live at EastWest Studios	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 24, 2012
	Spotify sessions	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 2, 2012
2016	Death Valley	-	-	CH41 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: June 17, 2016 Sales: 13,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2015	Lost on You Lost on You	DE42 gold (15 weeks)DE	AT4 (17 weeks) AT	CH5 platinum (39 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: November 20, 2015 Sales: + 665,000

More singles

• 2012: Into the Wild
• 2014: Night Like This
• 2014: Someday
• 2015: Muddy Waters
• 2016: Other People
• 2018: N'oublie pas (with Mylène Farmer )
• 2018: Girls Go Wild
• 2018: recovery

Songwriting

Guest Posts

year	title	Artist	album	Label
2007	Love Will Keep You Up All Night	Backstreet Boys	Unbreakable	Jive
2010	Standing where you left me	Erik Hassle	Taken EP	Roxy / EMI / Universal
	More is more	Heidi Monday	Superficial	Warner bros.
	Twisted	Heidi Monday	Superficial	Warner bros.
	Hey boy	Heidi Monday	Superficial	Warner bros.
	Love It or Leave It	Heidi Monday	Superficial	Warner bros.
	Beautiful people	Christina Aguilera	Burlesque: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	RCA Records
2011	Cheers (Drink to That)	Rihanna	Loud	Island Def Jam
	You don't get to know	Hitomi		Avex / Japan
	Waiting Outside the Lines (Remix)	Greyson Chance feat. Charice		Geffen
	Afraid to Sleep	Vicci Martinez (The Voice)		Universal Republic
	I'm still hot	Luciana		Violent lips
2012	happening	Chiddy Bang		EMI Records
	Hi-roller baby	Joe Walsh	Analog Man	Concord Music
	Shine Ya Light	Rita Ora	Ora	Roc Nation
	Lolita	The Veronicas		Sire Records
	fingerprint	Leona Lewis	Glassheart	Sony Music
2013	Red	Cher	Closer to the truth	Warner bros.
	Pride	Cher	Closer to the truth	Warner bros.
2014	Tidal wave	Carmine	Pulse	Epic
	Human	Cher Lloyd	Sorry I'm late	Epic
	Line of Fire	The Veronicas	The Veronicas	Sony Music
2015	Mirror Man	Ella Henderson	Chapter One	Syco

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2013: for the author participation Cheers (Drink to That) ( Rihanna ) Golden record  Australia 2012: for the author participation Lolita ( The Veronicas )  Belgium 2016: for the single Lost on You  Italy 2019: for the single Girls Go Wild  Poland 2017: for the album Death Valley 2019: for the single Girls Go Wild 2019: for the album Heart to Mouth Platinum record  France 2017: for the album Lost on You  Italy 2017: for the single Other People 2018: for the album Lost on You  New Zealand 2011: for the author participation Cheers (Drink to That) (Rihanna)  Poland 2016: for the single Lost on You

2 × platinum record  Poland 2020: for the album Lost on You  United States 2015: for the author participation Cheers (Drink to That) (Rihanna) 3 × platinum record  Australia 2015: for the author participation Cheers (Drink to That) (Rihanna) 4 × platinum record  Italy 2016: for the single Lost on You Diamond record  France 2017: for the single Lost on You

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	-	245,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	platinum1	diamond1	350,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	6 × platinum6th	-	325,000	fimi.it
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	platinum1	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Poland (ZPAV)	-	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	-	90,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	-	30,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	7 × gold7th	17 × platinum17th	diamond1

Web links

Commons : LP (Laura Pergolizzi)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Official biography
• LP at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} LP - laut.de - band. Retrieved December 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Bio. In: LP Blog Official. March 17, 2018, Retrieved May 20, 2020 (American English). 
3. ↑ Martina Dessì: Concerti di LP in Italia nel 2020 from Torino a Marostica: biglietti in prevendita. December 17, 2019, accessed May 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Bio. In: LP Blog Official. March 17, 2018, Retrieved December 13, 2018 (American English). 
5. ^ ^{A b} Walt Whitman High School Class of 1986 - Walt Whitman High School Alumni Directory. Retrieved January 5, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jamie Gumbrecht: Songwriter LP goes into the wild - as a singer. CNN , April 26, 2012, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
7. ↑ These days. By Gordon Haber & Laura Pergolizzi, Maybe the rain, Back to Boston. Retrieved December 23, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Stephan Boissonneault: Indie songstress LP took opera lessons to control her wild voice | Vue Weekly. Retrieved December 23, 2018 (American English). 
9. ↑ Who Is LP? Former official website, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
10. ↑ News. Former Official Website, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Freddie Campion: Artist of the Week: LP. Vogue , May 30, 2012, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} LP at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 28, 2016.
13. ^ ^{A b} Gary Graff: LP Focuses on LP With First Album in a Decade. Billboard.com , June 3, 2014, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dan Hyman: Listen Up: LP. Elle , August 30, 2012, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Martin Ambassador. Martin Guitar, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Kelly McCartney: LP: Forever for Now. Popmatters.com, September 12, 2014, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} chart sources:
    • LP on the Billboard 200th Billboard , accessed September 29, 2016 . 
    • LP - Lost on You. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on October 2, 2016 . 
    • LP - Lost On You. In: ö3 Austria Top 40 . Hung Medien, accessed October 26, 2016 . 
    • Singles from LP. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on September 28, 2016 (CH). 
    • LP | full Official Chart history. In: Official Charts Company . Retrieved May 13, 2017 (English). 
18. ↑ Soundcloud: Otto Knows ft. Avicii - Back Where I Belong. Retrieved July 26, 2017 . 
19. ↑ LP: Forever for Now: AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 29, 2016.
20. ↑ Grant britt: LP - Forever for Now. (No longer available online.) NoDepression.com, June 19, 2014, archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.