Laurie Mayer (composer)

Laurie Mayer (born 1961) is an American born composer and songwriter who has spent much of her musical career in the UK. She majored in both music and fine art at UCLA before relocating to London. She was part of the group Torch Song.

Career

During the 1980s and 1990s she was part of the group Torch Song with Grant Gilbert, William Orbit and Rico Conning.[1] The band released four albums: Wish Thing, Ecstasy, Exhibit A, and Toward the Unknown Region. Together they ran Guerilla Studios, with Conning as the in-house sound engineer.[2]

She worked with Etienne Daho on his albums 'Pop Satori' and 'Pour nos vies martiennes'. During that time she released an EP, Bright Blue Night. The title track was covered as "Le seul cœur que je brise" by the Daho produced version recorded by Belgian pop artist Lio.

Mayer released a solo album, Black Lining in 2006.[3] The song "Falling Free" on Madonna's MDNA album (2012), was co-written by Mayer, Orbit, Madonna and Joe Henry.[4]

In 2009, she co-authored the book The Way We Were California: Nostalgic Images of the Golden State with M.J. Howard.[5]

gollark: This is not too difficult, I think it took me about 30 minutes.
gollark: If you were to do it from scratch it would also require setting up Grafana and Prometheus.
gollark: I basically just had to write 20 lines of bridge code (into my existing random stuff webserver) and add some code to the computers running stuff ingame.
gollark: Not very much as I had the majority in place already.
gollark: You don't need a domain whatsoever for this, but it's nice and quite cheap.

References
  1. "The Judges". BBC World Service. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. Murphy, Ben (25 April 2016). "Interview: Acid House and Post-Punk Engineer Rico Conning". Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. "Black Lining - Laurie Mayer". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  4. "MDNA by Madonna". Apple Music. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. Mayer, Laurie; Howard, M.J. (2009). The way we were California : nostalgic images of the Golden State. Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 9780762754526.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.