Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood (* in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American pop singer and songwriter. Her biggest hit was 1979 Please Do not Leave.
Biography
Lauren Wood began her music career in the mid 1970s when she initiated the psychedelic rock band ' Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers'. With her cousin Novi Novog and bassist Ernie Emerita They later founded under the pseudonym Chunky the group ' Chunky, Novi and Ernie ', the album was released in 1976. Wood took over the vocals and played keyboards.
Was 1979, which named after her debut album as a soloist in the shops, in the misleading "feat. Novi & Ernie " printed on the cover. Even the two band members were to be seen on the photo of the album cover. The single from the album Please Do not Leave, a duet with Michael McDonald, climbed into the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981 came the album Cat trick in the stores.
In the following years it became quiet around Wood. She wrote songs for other artists as well as for film and television soundtracks. Her clients included Gladys Knight, Philip Bailey, Cher, Dusty Springfield, Animotion, Tiffany, Nicolette Larson, Sammy Hagar and Montrose, Billy Preston and others. In addition, the American sang in some commercials. In the credits to the chart hit I'd Do It All Again by Sam Harris (1986 space 52 in the U.S.) it is mentioned as accompanying singer.
Another major success was Lauren Wood 1990 as a singer of the title Fallen, who came from the soundtrack to the film Pretty Woman. The song made it in June 1991 in the German airplay charts (No. 80).
In 1997, Wood her own label ' Bad Art Records' and released after a long break, a solo album, which, like her debut 1979, the title of Lauren Wood wore. Then there was, among other things, the original version of traps. Also the song Life Keeps Bringin 'Me Back to You, the theme music of the series Just Shoot Me - Just Shoot, was sung by Wood. 2007 appeared the fourth solo album Love, Death & Customer Service.