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June 20, 20:00
Crocus City Hall Crocus City Hall

Part Feist and part Joan Jett, powerful, genre-defying, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter LP (Laura Pergolizzi) was raised in New York on a steady diet of Joni Mitchell, the Doors, the Pretenders, Nirvana, and Jeff Buckley. She spent her formative years honing her craft in other bands before releasing her 2001 solo album, Heart-Shaped Scar (produced by David Lowery [Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker]), and relocating to California. She began to hit her stride in 2004 with her second outing, Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol, which featured the track "Wasted," used as the theme song for seasons two and three of the Nickelodeon teen drama South of Nowhere. Her 2006 appearance at the South by Southwest Music Conference prompted a bidding war, resulting in a deal with Island Def Jam Music Group. With IDJMG, Pergolizzi began writing songs for other artists, including Heidi Montag, Rihanna, and Christina Aguilera.

She landed her first major breakthrough as a songwriter, co-writing Rihanna's song "Cheers (Drink to That)" featured on Rihanna's fifth studio album Loud, released on 12 November 2010 on Def Jam Recordings. "Cheers" features a vocal hook performed by L.P. (taken from Avril Lavigne's "I'm with You"). In a 2010 interview with MTV News, Rihanna said: "I love that song . That is one of my favorite songs on the album. It makes you feel like celebrating. It gives you a great feeling inside like you want to go out and have a drink. … People can't wait for the weekend."

L.P.'s major label songwriting breakthroughs continued, as she co-wrote "Beautiful People" performed by Christina Aguilera. The song is featured on the Burlesque: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album, which was released on 22 November 2010 through RCA Records. In June 2011, L.P. co-wrote "Afraid to Sleep" which was performed by NBC's The Voice finalist Vicci Martinez and reached #10 on iTunes Top Singles Chart. In September 2011, L.P. signed a deal with Warner Bros. Records. Shortly after, "Into the Wild", written and performed by LP, was prominently used in a Citibank national TV ad campaign.

In May 2012 she featured as Artist of the Week in Vogue magazine. Over the following two years, she completed the recording of her third album that included collaborations with Billy Steinberg, Isabella "Machine" Summers (from Florence and the Machine), Josh Alexander, Claude Kelly, Justyn Pilbrow, Carl Ryden and Rob Kleiner. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo, Warner Bros. Records' chairman and producer. On April 1, 2014, it was announced that LP's third full-length studio album would be titled Forever for Now, and was scheduled to be released on June 3, 2014. The album was promoted by the lead single "Night Like This". Following the album, a second single "Someday" was released in June 2014 in Canada. On September 16, 2014, a music video for "Tokyo Sunrise" officially premiered on Time magazine's website.

In September 2015, the song "Muddy Waters", the first single from LP's upcoming fourth studio album, was released. In June 2016, this song featured in the violent and emotionally charged closing scene of the season four finale of Netflix's original series Orange Is The New Black. In November, the second single, titled "Lost on You", was also released, while she held a residency at the No Vacancy club. Both songs originate from a collaboration with Mike Del Rio. An EP titled Death Valley was released on June 17, 2016.

After the stunning success of her chamber concert in Russia last year, the American singer LP returns to Moscow with a big solo program. The author of the hit "Lost on you" will perform on June 20 in Crocus City Hall.

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