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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nHOMETOWN:<\/strong> Los Feliz, Calif. Laura Jansen has done quite a bit of moving\u00a0around in her life\u2014from her birthplace of Breda, Holland, to Brussels, then Zurich, Connecticut, Tennessee and California. Along the way she studied at a music conservatory in Holland and at Berklee College of Music in Boston before finally launching her musical career in the Los Angeles area. Throughout her many travels, her constant companion has been her piano. \u201cMusic was my solace,\u201d she says, \u201cthe place I went when I didn\u2019t\u00a0understand the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Once she settled on the West Coast, Jansen began making her name with a regular gig at influential Hollywood venue the Hotel Caf\u00e9. Singer and songwriter Joshua Radin caught her show there and invited her to join his band in 2008. \u201cThat was amazing,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d never played outside of Los Angeles, and he gave me a boost and a huge shot of confidence.\u201d She eventually landed a solo deal in the Netherlands, where she released her debut album, Bells<\/em>, to great success in 2009. A cover of Kings of Leon\u2019s \u201cUse Somebody\u201d became her breakthrough hit overseas.\u00a0\u201cThe Kings of Leon guys can buy more cars because of the amount\u00a0of airplay it got,\u201d she jokes.<\/p>\n Still, the focus of Bells<\/em>\u2014which got a U.S. release in March\u2014is on Jansen\u2019s original songs. \u201cI write and play music to work stuff out,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you\u2019re a performer, part of that is a public process\u2014which is weird, that there\u2019s an exhibitionism to our therapy. But to me that\u2019s much more effective than popping some pills and talking to a shrink. It feels really good to get it out, and it feels even better to play the songs and look out at an audience and see someone whose face is saying, \u2018I totally get it.\u2019 That in itself is healing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LAURA JANSEN HOMETOWN: Los Feliz, Calif. INFLUENCES: Joni Mitchell, Queen, Barbra Streisand ALBUM: Bells, out now WEBSITE: laurajansen.com Laura Jansen has done quite a bit of moving\u00a0around in her life\u2014from her birthplace of Breda, Holland, to Brussels, then Zurich, Connecticut, Tennessee and California. Along the way she studied at a music conservatory in Holland and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[2250,2248,2249,1634,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nINFLUENCES<\/strong>:<\/strong> Joni Mitchell, Queen, Barbra Streisand
\nALBUM:<\/strong> Bells, <\/em>out now
\nWEBSITE:<\/strong> laurajansen.com<\/p>\n