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Lauren White is an accomplished Los Angeles-based jazz singer with a beautiful and versatile voice. Her first three CDs, Lauren White, Experiment, and Meant to Be, were well received and have enjoyed airplay on L.A.’s local jazz station KJAZZ as well as throughout the country. She performs twice yearly at the Metropolitan Room in New York City and can be heard in many jazz venues in the Los Angeles area, including Catalina Bar & Grill, Vitello’s, and the Cinegrill. Her newest CD, Out of the Past: Jazz & Noir, will be released in May, 2016. With updated jazz arrangements, the project brings to life songs featured in some of the most popular movies of the Film Noir genre.

Lauren was born and raised in in Great Neck, Long Island. Throughout a wide ranging life, she has long known that her true love was singing. Her first musical inspiration was an aunt who was an opera singer. Her parents also loved the theater and frequently took the family on outings to Broadway plays. Lauren was inspired to perform at an early age and appeared often in local musical theater.

When she got older, Lauren pursued an acting career, first attending NYU with a major in Liberal Arts, and then studying with the famed Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio. She became a working actress, playing leads on several daytime soap operas, including The Doctors and How to Survive a Marriage, and establishing herself as a versatile musical theater performer in shows like Is There Life After High School? (Broadway) and Company (Equity Library Theatre). She soon became a regular on the New York music scene, singing standards and contemporary music in clubs around the city.

After moving to Los Angeles, Lauren continued acting in episodic television and theater, but soon returned to singing, her first love, and began performing in local Southern California venues. She is currently a co- producer on the hit Showtime series, Homeland, and lives in Pacific Palisades with her husband Alex Gansa, a television writer/producer and creator of Homeland.

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Lauren White: Making It Up As We Go Along

Read "Making It Up As We Go Along" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


With this, her fifth album, Los Angeles-based Renaissance lady, Lauren White offers eleven intriguing selections across a range of styles and sources, backed up by some of the city's best. While shrewdly avoiding the tried, true and over-recorded, White uses her subtle skills with taste and maturity. Interestingly, the album plays sequentially as if it were a performance. That is one of its attractions. Launching things, Steely Dan's “I'm Not the Same Without You" is a coy ...

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Lauren White and the Quinn Johnson Trio: Ever Since The World Ended

Read "Ever Since The World Ended" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


There is an interesting take of “Ever Since the World Ended" on You Tube. It is an evocative video, a kind of visual essay on Mose Allison's blues which could serve as an anthem to the pandemic and accompanying mess we are in. Lauren White (accompanied by Dolores Scozzesi) is appropriately downbeat, and well complemented by the Quinn Johnson Trio. One could enjoy a stiff drink while reflecting on the last year and listening. And, mostly, ...

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Lauren White: Ever Since The World Ended

Read "Ever Since The World Ended" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


There is a cadre of West Coast jazz musicians who tacitly orbit one Mark Winkler. This embarrassing wealth of talent includes: Cheryl Bentyne, Dolores Scozzesi, Judy Wexler, Robyn Spangler, Gary Brumburgh, Jeffery Gimble, Ada Bird Wolfe, and our present subject, Lauren White. White, an original East Coast product, expatriated to Westward to act and sing...and record. Her previous recording, Life In The Modern World (Cafe pacific Records, 2019) was the (unknowing) opening bookend to a most curious cultural year we ...

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Lauren White: Life in the Modern World

Read "Life in the Modern World" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Vocalist, actress, producer.... Lauren White does it all. And, as befits a Renaissance artist, she not only excels, but also explores the unique, the compelling and the substantive. With Life in the Modern World she and her team of Los Angeles aces do precisely that, delivering 11 fine selections, most lesser-known, but each a certified gem. Things break with a lively take on Ivan Lins' “Life in the Modern World," with White complemented by energized solos by ...

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Vocalist Lauren White Releases 'Ever Since The World Ended' On Cafe Pacific Records, Coming March 26th

Vocalist Lauren White Releases 'Ever Since The World Ended' On Cafe Pacific Records, Coming March 26th

Source: Mouthpiece Music

Ever Since the World Ended, the newest album by vocalist Lauren White, is a family affair. It is not White’s consanguineous family but her extended music family to whom she turned for succor as the country deals with the Covid-19 pandemic. The loneliness and isolation caused by the quarantine are exacerbated by the disruption of our daily routines and uncertainty about the future. “Ever Since the World Ended" is a testament to the anodyne powers of making music as a ...

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Making It Up As We Go...

Cafe Pacific Records
2024

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Ever Since The World...

Cafe Pacific Records
2021

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Life in the Modern...

Cafe Pacific Records
2019

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Ever Since The World Ended

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