lauv

 Early life

According to wikipedia

Leff(Lauv) was born in San Francisco, California. He spent his early childhood in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, before his family relocated to a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went to Radnor High School. As a child, he was interested in music and took piano and viola lessons before learning how to play the guitar at the age of 11. He started writing songs in middle school, at around 14 years old.[9] Many of his songs during this period focused on heartbreak and breakups, despite at the time, never having had a girlfriend. During his time in high school, he played in several bands and studied jazz before moving on to electronic music. He was so "fully obsessed" in making music and playing shows that he had no interest to "drink, or do drugs, or anything". He has said that his sister would drive him and his friends on tour, where they often played "to zero people." His early musical influences were Owl City and Never Shout Never. He would listen to Owl City's "Maybe I'm Dreaming" and study the production style and the abstract lyrical themes that use "dreamy" and "whimsical" images to describe love. He also adopted the artist name, "Somersault Sunday", and published some songs on his Myspace account.Lauv, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer based in Los Angeles

After graduating high school, Leff decided to pursue a behind-the-scenes role in music. He chose to study music technology at New York University's Steinhardt School. While at university, he studied abroad in Prague and was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. He spent two of his four years at NYU as a studio intern for Jungle City Studios, where artists such as Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Keys recorded. During his junior year, he signed a publishing deal after the success of his song "The Other" but he decided to finish university and "enjoy it" having only a year left and because he was also feeling "fortunate enough to be able to go there".

Career

Pre-2014: Leff formed his first band Somersault Sunday and released his first single “Say Hello to The Ground”. Leff was known for his basement concerts in his early middle and high school years.

On May 19, 2017, Leff released the single "I Like Me Better", an up-tempo track inspired by his relationship that began shortly after he moved to New York City. It peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, earned platinum certification in seven countries (including the US), and gold certification in three.

Life style

Lauv dated pop musician Julia Michaels for several months in 2018, before they broke up at the end of the year.

His mother and his maternal grandparents are Latvian and Lauv has frequently visited Latvia to visit relatives and spend summers in his grandfather's cottage in the seaside city of Jūrmala.

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