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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Laura Love| image =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Laura Jones| alias =| Born = 1960 Lincoln, Nebraska , United States | origin =| instrument =| genre = Folk (music)|Folk , Afro-Celtic| occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = 1990–present (singing) 2001–present (acting)| label =| associated_acts =| website =Laura Love (born 1960) is an United States|American singer and bass guitar player.
Biography
Love was born Laura Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1960.cite book |author=Bush, James |title=Encyclopedia of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings to Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide to the Best of the Region|publisher=Sasquatch Books|location=Seattle, Wash|year=1999|pages=249–250|isbn=1-57061-141-6 She is of African American , Native Americans in the United States|Native American , and White American|Caucasian descent.cite web |url= http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2528/Love-Laura.html|title=Laura Love Biography - Survived Group Suicide Planned by Mother, Formed Own Label after Negative Review|author=James M. Manheim|accessdate=2008-08-29 |year=2008 |publisher=Allmusiccite web |url= http://redblackscholars.wearetheones.org/scholarship.html|title=African-Native American Scholars|author= |accessdate=2008-07-30 |year=2008 |publisher=African-Native American Scholars Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in Foster care|foster homes . Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played sax with Count Basie, Lucky Millander and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s. Love's mother, Wini, had been a singer in Preston's jazz band.
Career
Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary .cite web| title = Laura Love Biography| work = Pandora Internet Radio| url = http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/laura+love| accessdate = 2008-01-10 Love relocated to Seattle, Washington , where she was a member of the late 1980s rock group Boom Boom G.I.Citation needed|date=January 2008 She was also a member of an all-female band , Venus Envy (U.S. band)|Venus Envy .
After Love released three albums on her own label, Quadroon|Octoroon Biography, Putumayo World Music|Putumayo released a collection of her songs. Her album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial song "I Want You Gone", about George W. Bush . She published an autobiography, ''You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes , with an accompanying album of the same name, in 2004. Her style has been described as "Afro-Celtic" and has also been influenced by Bluegrass music|bluegrass .
Love, Laura (2004). ''You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes . New York (Hyperion Books). ISBN 1-4013-0011-1
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External links
http://www.lauralove.net/ Official Website
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