Laura Jansen

Laura Jansen was so close to giving it up before she even began. But a year after deciding to give music a try she tried to make waves with advance copies of her EP Trauma (released summer 2006). She has found her audience on MySpace and she continued to garner rave reviews and a legion of loyal fans. This dutch expatriate made the move out to sunny Los Angeles in 2005 and never looked back. Her shows in Hollywood are drawing bigger and bigger crowds and the response is positively overwhelming. Laura is already being compared to the Tori Amos/Fiona Apple/Regina Spektor school, but a dash of reggae and a touch of gospel set her apart from the rest. It doesn't hurt that her lyrics are nothing short of inspiration and reflect the place she is now in - hurled along by life, sometimes painfully, but always grounded in hope. June 12, 2009, she released her second EP, Bells, featuring single Single Girls, accompanied by a music video.