Birth name Laura Jones Role Singer Name Laura Love | Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter Genres Folk, Afro-Celtic Parents Preston Love | |
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Years active 1990–present (singing)
2001–present (acting) Albums NeGrass, Helvetica Bold, Fourteen Days, Octoroon People also search for Preston Love, Jo Miller, Alice Gerrard | ||
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Laura Love (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and bass guitar player. Her style has been described as "Afro-Celtic" and has also been influenced by bluegrass.
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- Laura love band entire set magnoliafest main stage 10 18 02
- Laura love i m a givin way
- Personal life
- Career
- Discography
- References
Laura love i m a givin way
Personal life
Love was born Laura Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1960. She is of African American, Native American, and Caucasian descent. Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes. Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played the saxophone with Count Basie, Lucky Millinder and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s. Love's mother, Wini, had been a singer in Preston's jazz band.
Career
Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Love relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the 1980s rock group Boom Boom G.I.(Here's your citation - as a founding member of the group, I can assure you Laura Love was an official member of the band Boom Boom G.I., on top of that, here's a link to the cover photo of the band's second album. Laura is pictured here in white - [1]). She was also a member of an all-female band, Venus Envy.
After Love released three albums on her own label, Octoroon Biography, Putumayo released a collection of her songs. Her 2003 album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial song "I Want You Gone", about George W. Bush. In 2004 she published an autobiography, You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes, with an accompanying album of the same name.