Why does the lp singer look like a man? Personal life

Laura Pergolizzi, or as it is known, LP, captivated the European charts, instantly making millions fall in love with her work, and it seems that she “shot” suddenly, appearing almost out of nowhere. However, this American singer and the songwriter has been on the road to success for a long time and has now received well-deserved fame.

Girl with a guitar

A strong voice, extravagant appearance, heartfelt lyrics and memorable melodies - all this became part of the success of the LP, whose biography is an example of perseverance and talent. The singer is also accompanied everywhere by a guitar and a ukulele - a Hawaiian four-string musical instrument. LP's vocal performance is truly unique, easily moving from velvety low notes to the highest trills of the upper registers. Her vocals are especially magnificent in studio videos, many of which become viral on the Internet, of course, because even without computer processing they sound cooler than the once popular former Union Vitas.

The future star was born into a family of immigrants from Italy; even at summer school, the nickname LP “stuck” to her, which she made her creative pseudonym. Also called future star and work colleagues at one of the restaurants in New York, where she moved after graduating from school. Later, LP moved to Los Angeles, and it was this city that became a cozy nest for her, such a freedom-loving bird.

Path to glory

Career professional singer The LP started back in 1998. Musician and manager of the Cracker group David Lowery, having accidentally heard the girl, was fascinated by her voice and invited her to sing in his new band. He also became the producer of her first album, “Scar in the Shape of a Heart,” which was released 16 years ago—in 2001.

Nevertheless, debut album did not bring the girl fame. The same thing awaited the second record, and now almost everyone knows the song about lost love and was completely rejected by the producers recording studio. As LP itself jokes now, it is not known how a person feels who has missed a hit with millions of views and downloads... Alas, it was only in 2016 that “Lost on you” became one of the most popular songs on the Shazam app.

On a long and intricate path to fame, LP composed songs for her colleagues on stage, and her works appeared in the repertoire of such stars as Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, Cher, and others. Then even Laura herself thought for a moment that songwriting might well be her thing. permanent job. But all the works of the talented girl are incredibly sincere, and the variety of genres only spurs the performer to new achievements. Therefore, LP worked hard and composed both for other artists and her own compositions.

Lost on you, well-deserved success

Today’s popular hit “Lost on you” is a song from the singer’s third album, released in 2016. A separate single with this track was released at the end of 2015, and in 2016 the LP performed at one of the festivals in her parents’ homeland, Italy. The composition is dedicated to LP’s ex-girlfriend, personal life, experiences and feelings, the singer put all this into the confessional song. As the singer admits, she wrote her main hit halfway through a storm in her soul, because she suffered a fiasco not only in love affairs, but also in work, her contract was terminated in another studio. The girl put all this into such a bright and emotional composition.

And the popularity itself unusual song came quite unexpectedly, after a cover of it was released in Greece and instantly caused a stir around the LP person.

Originality in everything

In addition to her vocal abilities, the LP is also distinguished by another trademark - artistic whistling, which she masters no less masterfully. And here, too, chance played a huge role; for LP, whistling in the studio, while writing songs and just thinking about something is a common thing, and only an attentive producer advised to make this a special feature in the singer’s work. The singer’s wide vocal range, original arrangements, and artistic whistling harmoniously merged together.

But as a child, LP was embarrassed by her unusual timbre and always turned on the vacuum cleaner or lawn mower at full power so that no one could hear her vocal exercises. However, even then the power of her voice drowned out any technique, but now this voice has brought her worldwide popularity.

No less original than her songs is appearance L.P. She calls her clothing style androgynous, and wears suits tailored exclusively to her figure. At the same time, the girl gives preference to short jackets, leather jackets, T-shirts, shirts, jeans, boots and hats. Gave her a cross earring old friend, and the earring previously belonged to Madonna. For LP, the cross is not a sacred sign; she does not identify herself with any religion, but considers Jesus to be a kind of rebel.

Also, one of the obligatory attributes of LP’s image is large sunglasses, and the singer likes them so much that she wears them almost everywhere. The singer’s numerous tattoos are no less original, the main one of which is the image sailing ship on the chest LP. The girl hardly uses makeup.

If you want to enjoy the work of this magnificent singer, you should visit the LP, you can buy tickets for it on our website. Here you can also find out the times of LP concerts, prices and tour schedule concerts of the singer in Ukraine.

Currently, the personal life and biography of Laura Pergolizzi is filled with various events that are really worth talking about. Laura Pergolizzi is quite famous foreign singer, author of music and lyrics for songs by many foreign performers.

Childhood and youth

The singer was born in 1981 in Long Island. Laura Pergolizzi's mother is successful Opera singer, father is from Sicily. The girl inherited from her mother musical abilities And powerful voice, from his father - a quick temper and interesting appearance.


Laura Pergolizzi: photo

The love for music began in early childhood. Little Laura loved to sing. She sang songs very loudly, so the neighbors often argued. From parents future singer it only caused tenderness. It’s safe to say that the biography and personal life of Laura Pergolizzi developed like many future performers.


IN school years Laura mastered playing the guitar. This instrument immediately became my favorite. Laura Pergolizzi decided to become famous singer and achieve great success. Having famous mother, she didn't have to spend great effort, but she still completed the training. In the future, only success awaited her.


Famous singer Laura Pergolizzi

Therefore, immediately after graduating from school, the girl goes to the city of great opportunities, New York. It was here that she became famous and popular throughout the world. This city for the biography and personal life of Laura Pirgolizzi has great importance. Here she began her career, became famous and continues to work only in New York.


Carier start

The girl dreamed that upon arrival in New York her career would immediately take off. An unknown singer was not expected in the huge city. Therefore, at first she collaborated with others musical groups. For example, for some time Laura Pergolizzi was the lead singer of The Plan. She successfully toured and at the same time did not stop writing her own poetry and music. At the same time she takes a sonorous creative pseudonym L.P.


Laura Pergolizzi at the beginning of her career

Having accumulated enough material, the singer decides to release her first music album. It was published in 2001. Many compositions from the collection are popular. The single “Kiss It All Goodbye” was featured in the film “Safety of Things.” Despite the popularity of some compositions, the girl does not become famous.


Laura Pergolizzi at a concert

In 2004, Laura released her second album, Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol. The work finally makes the singer famous. However, this is not at all the glory that Laura dreamed of. The fact is that work on this album was carried out jointly with another performer, Linda Perry, who is famous for her unconventional orientation. This fact attracted enormous attention from the press. The media paid great attention to the performer’s personal life, completely forgetting about the music.


The performer temporarily interrupts her singing career and begins to write music and poetry for others popular artists. She wrote a single for the album of singer Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Cher and several other musical groups.


Laura Pergolizzi on the set of the video

Today the Internet is very a large number of photos of Laura Pirgolizzi, stories from her personal life and biography about which she herself tries to remain silent. Working with celebrities is not always pleasant, so Laura herself has more than once had difficulties communicating with other representatives of the singing movement.

The pinnacle of a musical career

Since 2010, LP begins to tour various cities with its music program. Along with this, she participates in competitions and festivals. In 2014, the long-awaited new album “Forever for Now” was released. The compositions from this collection immediately took leading positions in the ranking of the most popular singles in the world. The long-awaited fame has finally come to the performer. The most popular composition of the LP is “Lost on you”. She dedicated this song to her former lover Temzin Brown.


Laura Pergolizzi at the pinnacle of her music career

This is exactly how the singer’s career took shape, who by today’s standards is still young and will achieve considerable results in the future. Today she has devoted her life to writing poetry and music for other singers, and these works are in great demand. A talented woman delights her fans almost every year with dozens of different works.


Laura Pergolizzi: photo

Personal life

At first creative career homosexual the singer was considered just rumors. Many creative people become hostages of events, machinations of funds mass media who publish such articles. But the problem is that Laura really turned out to be gay.


Laura Pergolizzi and Tamzin Brown

Many believed that in this way the girl was trying to attract attention to herself. However, LP soon stopped hiding her relationship with actress Tamzin Brown. In 2015, the couple broke up. It is unknown who the singer is dating now, as she tries not to give interviews on this matter.


”, which sank into my soul so much that I wanted to get to know its performer, the owner of an androgynous appearance and breathtaking curls, better. Like many others, I didn’t immediately understand whether it was a man or a woman singing, but this only piqued my interest.

Europe became acquainted with the LP only with the release of the song “Lost on you,” although its popularity in America came already in 2012, after the release of “ Into The Wild"

Those who heard the LP at least once were captivated by the beauty of her voice, her whistle (which she demonstrates in many songs), her lyrics filled with deep meaning and personal experiences, her energy, and even her manner of dressing. Not to mention the mesmerizing ukulele playing!

The LP has an attractive charm that, despite the singer's pronounced androgynous appearance, demonstrates great sensuality. Interested, we collected some information about LP, and are happy to share our findings with you. After the first few videos, the question of “is LP a guy or a girl” disappeared by itself. Her charming smile left no reason for doubt.

The nickname LP comes from the singer's real name (Laura Pergolizzi). Yes, she has Italian roots. She has been using this pseudonym for a very long time, since the time when, after graduating high school LP moved from the New York suburbs.


Laura has a talent for getting right into your soul, just try listening to acoustic versions of her performances.

Laura did not have the opportunity to tell her mother about her unconventional sexual views.

And dad for a long time I thought it was just a teenage hobby and only recently realized that it was not so. But in any case, I never received criticism or negativity from my parents. I still don't receive it.

LP began her career as a songwriter. Her collection includes songs for Rihanna and Christina Aguilera.

Beautiful People ( Beautiful people) was written for Christina Aguilera in collaboration with Nicole Scherzinger at her country house in the mountains. She was damn calm and lounging in bed, and I was working on a fluffy rug nearby and thinking: “Well, that’s strange. How surreal and damn cool everything turns out.”

LP says about his clothing style that everything happens naturally.

I have been honing my style for a long time and still strive to achieve maximum compliance with my internal state and appearance. IN this moment I am pleased that I feel very comfortable in my own skin, and this can be said about all areas of my life and creativity.

The LP look is complemented by ever-present sunglasses.

I don't know if I'll continue to wear sunglasses if... the world will stop scaring me. It always seemed to me that sunglasses it's part of me, as we perceive them to be part of Roy Orbison.

LP jokes without hesitation about the topic of looking like a man.

“I have many stories when I was mistaken for a guy,” says L.P., “women with daughters jumped out of the shower at the sight of me in the Midwest shouting “what are you doing in the women’s shower?” I reacted with a smile - “Easy, lady! Relax and calm down. Your daughter is not in danger."

LP has never hidden her relationship with (Tamzin Brown). They are currently separated. Everything indicates that the super hit "" tells the story of this particular breakup. “Baby, you broke my fucking heart, but I'll still wear a great suit and stay cheerful... You'll miss me, baby. A deep drag of a cigarette... Curtain.”

The entire album was written under inspiration from a lost love.

It was Starting point my inspiration. I felt lost and disoriented and frantically searched for answers to what was really going on.

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2017-07-15
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The video for “When We're High” became a wedding gift that LP singers Laura Pergolisi and Lauren Ruth Ward gave to each other. The video was published the day after they. It happened on July 12 2017 in Paris during the LP's European tour.

Laura, 36, and Lauren Ruth Ward, 29, have been together for almost two years. "This is true! We did it! Well, she did it, but I was going to do it anyway, so it's over! She asked, I said “Yes” and BOOM – we got married...,” Laura commented on the expressive Paris photo on his Instagram page.

In the video for “When We"re High” there are many beautiful women of all races and skin tones. And each one is trying to seduce the singer, the heroine of the video. All beauties sooner or later find themselves in an elevator that moves inexorably upward. But LP remains cool and sings about loving only one girl... Of course, the central role in this kaleidoscope of beauties is played by Lauren Ruth Ward.

Lauren also recently released a provocative video, “Make Love To Myself,” which she directed. In it, she changes many lovers from frame to frame - so that in the last frame she can see a smiling Laura...

The LP's tour is truly a triumphant result. At concerts in Kyiv, Moscow and St. Petersburg the reception was so warm that the amazed Laura Pergolisi got a tattoo on her left arm - Russian word"Love". Russian fans (mostly fans) even released a T-shirt with a drawing of a sailboat - exactly the same as the tattoo Laura wears on her chest. In Moscow they believe that LP is the American embodiment and invite Laura to sing a duet. The singer listened to the recordings and found them very interesting. What Zemfira thinks about this is unknown.

After Ukraine and Russia, until the end of July, the LP visited the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Israel with concerts.

When We're High
When we're high

Verse 1:
There was a time, there was a life, I was inside my head
There was a time, there was a life, I was all in my thoughts,
Then finally I rested in your bed
And then, finally, I lay in your bed.
The bars, the dives, the worst of vibes
Bars, hangouts, worst feelings -
I thought had come to pass
I thought it was all a thing of the past
But still I couldn't seem to make it last
But I still couldn't make it last.

Chant 1:
I"d swallow the moon and the stars
I would swallow the moon and stars
To follow the beat of your heart
To watch your heart beat.

Chorus:
Oh when we're high
When we're high
Oh my God, you blow my mind
Oh god, you're driving me crazy.
So let"s get high, let"s get high
So let's get high, let's get high
Live until we die, yeah
Live while we're alive, yeah!
Oh you and I, you and I
Oh, you and me, you and me,
Let's just do it one more time,one more time
Let's do it one more time, one more time
A million times
A million times.
Let's get high, let's get high
Let's get high, let's get high
Live until we die, yeah
Live while we're alive, yeah!

Verse 2:
A state of mind collected like
State of mind -
A slowly wounded bouquet
Like a slowly wounding bouquet
With memories of our favorite nights and days
Memories of our favorite nights and days.

2 chant:
Let's swallow the moon and the stars
Let's swallow the moon and stars
Let's wallow just right where we are
Let's enjoy here and now.

Chorus:

Transition:
Blow my mind
You're driving me crazy.
Blow my mind
You're driving me crazy.

Bridge:
Oh my, my, kiss the sky
Oh god, oh god, kiss the heavens
Jimmy, baby, you were right
Jimi, 1 darling, you were right:
She"s so fine, hips don"t lie*
She's so beautiful, her hips don't lie. **
Hit me baby one more time
Darling, put me down again.
Go ahead and insert any random ass line
Go ahead, come up with any random stupid line.
Go ahead, yeah, yeah
Come on, yeah, yeah!

Chorus:

*Reference to Jimi Hendrix's song "She"s So Fine."
** Reference to Shakira and Wyclef Jean's song "Hips Don't Lie".

Translation by Alex
© Linguistic laboratory "Amalgam"

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Biography

LP (real name Laura Pergolizzi, born in 1981) is an American singer, songwriter. The songs of her authorship were taken into their repertoire by such performers as Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Rita Ora, Backstreet Boys, Cher, Joe Walsh, Cher Lloyd, Ella Henderson and others. Laura Pergolisi graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1996 and moved to New York, where she began performing under...

Biography

LP(real name Laura Pergolisi, Laura Pergolizzi, b. in 1981) is an American singer, songwriter. The songs of her authorship were taken into their repertoire by such performers as Joe Walsh, Cher Lloyd, Ella Henderson and others.

Laura Pergolisi graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1996 and moved to New York City, where she began performing under the name LP. Her mother is from Naples, her father is half Sicilian, half Irish.

In 2010, after Laura wrote the song “Cheers (Drink to That)” for Rihanna, released on the singer’s fifth album Loud, she moved to Los Angeles. In an interview, Rihanna said that this song is one of her favorites.

In 2012 the LP was named Best Performer of the week (“Artist of the Week”) by Vogue magazine.

In July 2016, the singer successfully performed with the song “Lost On You” (“You Don’t Understand”) in Rome at the Coca Cola Summer Festival 2016. The composition took first place in the charts in Greece and Israel, and also became number 3 in Italy.

On July 12, 2017, in Paris during a European tour, Laura Pergolisi with her friend, folk singer Lauren Ruth Ward.

Currently, the personal life and biography of Laura Pergolizzi is filled with various events that are really worth talking about. Laura Pergolizzi is a fairly well-known foreign singer, author of music and lyrics for songs by many foreign performers.

The singer was born in 1981 in Long Island. Laura Pergolizzi's mother is a successful opera singer, her father is from Sicily. The girl inherited musical abilities and a strong voice from her mother, and a quick-tempered character and interesting appearance from her father.

The love for music appeared in very early childhood. Little Laura loved to sing. She sang songs very loudly, so the neighbors often argued. For the parents of the future singer, this only caused tenderness. It’s safe to say that the biography and personal life of Laura Pergolizzi developed like many future performers.

During her school years, Laura mastered playing the guitar. This instrument immediately became my favorite. Laura Pergolizzi decided to become a famous singer and achieve great success. Having a famous mother, she did not have to expend much effort, but she still completed the training. In the future, only success awaited her.

Therefore, immediately after graduating from school, the girl goes to the city of great opportunities, New York. It was here that she became famous and popular throughout the world. This city is of great importance for the biography and personal life of Laura Pirgolizzi. Here she began her career, became famous and continues to work only in New York.

Carier start

The girl dreamed that upon arrival in New York her career would immediately take off. An unknown singer was not expected in the huge city. Therefore, at first she collaborated with other musical groups. For example, for some time Laura Pergolizzi was the lead singer of The Plan. She successfully toured and at the same time did not stop writing her own poetry and music. At the same time, she took the sonorous creative pseudonym LP.

Having accumulated enough material, the singer decides to release her first music album. It was published in 2001. Many compositions from the collection are popular. The single “Kiss It All Goodbye” was featured in the film “Safety of Things.” Despite the popularity of some compositions, the girl does not become famous.

In 2004, Laura released her second album, Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol. The work finally makes the singer famous. However, this is not at all the glory that Laura dreamed of. The fact is that work on this album was carried out jointly with another performer, Linda Perry, who is famous for her unconventional orientation. This fact attracted enormous attention from the press. The media paid great attention to the performer’s personal life, completely forgetting about the music.

For a while, the performer interrupts her singing career and begins to write music and poetry for other popular performers. She wrote a single for the album of singer Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Cher and several other musical groups.

Today on the Internet there are a very large number of photos of Laura Pirgolizzi, stories from her personal life and biography about which she herself tries to keep silent. Working with celebrities is not always pleasant, so Laura herself has more than once had difficulties communicating with other representatives of the singing movement.

The pinnacle of a musical career

Since 2010, LP begins to tour various cities with its musical program. Along with this, she participates in competitions and festivals. In 2014, the long-awaited new album “Forever for Now” was released. The compositions from this collection immediately took leading positions in the ranking of the most popular singles in the world. The long-awaited fame has finally come to the performer. The most popular composition of the LP is “Lost on you”. She dedicated this song to her former lover Temzin Brown.

This is exactly how the singer’s career took shape, who by today’s standards is still young and will achieve considerable results in the future. Today she has devoted her life to writing poetry and music for other singers, and these works are in great demand. A talented woman delights her fans almost every year with dozens of different works.

Personal life

At the beginning of her creative career, the singer’s unconventional orientation was considered just rumors. Many creative people become hostages of events, the machinations of the media that publish such articles. But the problem is that Laura really turned out to be gay.

Many believed that in this way the girl was trying to attract attention to herself. However, LP soon stopped hiding her relationship with actress Tamzin Brown. In 2015, the couple broke up. It is unknown who the singer is dating now, as she tries not to give interviews on this matter.