Lawrence (band)

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Lawrence the Band
OriginNew York City, New York, US
Genres
Years active2013–present
Labels
  • Warner Brothers
  • Beautiful Mind Records
Associated acts
Websitelawrencetheband.com
Members
  • Gracie Lawrence
  • Clyde Lawrence
  • Sam Askin
  • Sumner Becker
  • Jordan Cohen
  • Michael Karsh
  • Jonny Koh
  • Marc Langer

Lawrence is a US-based soul-pop group founded by New York City-raised sibling duo Clyde and Gracie Lawrence. The two who have been singing, performing, and writing songs together since their early childhood. Today, Lawrence is an eight-piece band that has released three studio albums, plus several live and acoustic albums.[1]

Lawrence family[]

Clyde and Gracie Lawrence, siblings aged three and a half years apart, have created music and performed together since childhood.[2][3] Their father, Marc Lawrence, is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and director, best known for movies such as Miss Congeniality and Music and Lyrics.[4] Their younger brother, Linus has also featured in songs such as "Come On, Brother" on their album Breakfast. He has also appeared in Lawrence music videos.[5]

Clyde Lawrence[]

Clyde is a singer, pianist, and songwriter. He began writing music soon after he started playing the piano at age 4. In the band he plays guitar, organ, and keyboard.[6] He graduated from the Dalton School in 2011 and completed an undergraduate degree at Brown University in 2015.[3]

When Marc Lawrence was working on the 2000 film Miss Congeniality and was not pleased with his options for the Miss United States pageant theme song, he turned to Clyde to see what he thought was wrong. At only 5, Clyde wrote his own version, and the film's other producers chose it without knowing its writer.[4] The Miss United States pageant anthem that Clyde composed is prominently featured in the film, and his composition led him to become the youngest member of the Songwriters Guild of America.[5] In recent years, a line from this song that Clyde wrote, "She's beauty, she's grace" has become widely used on the Internet.[7]

While attending high school at Dalton, Clyde continued to compose music for major motion pictures. He wrote parts of the original score for the 2007 film Music & Lyrics as well as "Dance With Me Tonight", a song that Hugh Grant performs.[6] He wrote two tracks, one of which he performed himself, for 2009 movie Did You Hear About the Morgans? Clyde has written songs for additional films including The Rewrite (2015) and Landline (2017).[8] He also composed the songs featured in the Season 2 episode of Instinct entitled "Broken Record" which aired on July 7, 2019.[9] Clyde, along with Cody Fitzgerald, composed the entire score for the 2019 Disney+ film, Noelle, starring Bill Hader and Anna Kendrick. They are the youngest people to serve as composers for a Disney film.[10]

Gracie Lawrence[]

Gracie is a singer and actress. She attended Dalton School, graduating in 2015.[3] She attended Brown after taking a gap year to tour with the band.[11] Gracie was set to graduate from Brown in 2020 but has since left college to play with Lawrence full time.[12]

Beyond music, she has acted on Broadway, television, and films for over a decade.[13] In 2009, she acted in the Broadway show Brighton Beach Memoirs and also played Lucy Granger in the film Did You Hear About The Morgans?. She has also acted in the 2011 film The Sitter as well as TV shows such as The Good Wife, The Americans, and Younger. In 2018, she played Julie Gardner on the main cast of thriller CBS-All Access series One Dollar, which also featured Leslie Odom Jr. and John Carroll Lynch.[13][14] She was featured in Town & Country magazine's "Modern Swans" September 2018 issue.[15]

Band formation[]

While studying at Brown University, Clyde started a band originally called The Clyde Lawrence Band for which he sang lead vocals and played keyboard. The band featured a rotating crew of Brown students as members. Gracie, still in high school, also travelled to perform with the band.[16][17] The Clyde Lawrence Band played events on campus as well as at colleges and venues across the Northeast.[3][11]

The Clyde Lawrence Band performed on Clyde's 2013 album, Homesick.[6] When Gracie became co-lead singer after many years playing together the band's name was changed to Lawrence.[4]

Seven of the eight members of Lawrence attended Brown.[12]

Music[]

Lawrence released its first full-length album, Breakfast, in 2016, which reached #6 on the iTunes R&B charts on its first day of release.[5] Produced by Grammy winner Eric Krasno, Breakfast includes musical appearances from members of Snarky Puppy and Lettuce.[2] Their hit single from the album, "Do You Wanna Do Nothing with Me?" has several million plays on Spotify.[18]

Their sophomore album, Living Room, was released in September 2018. Living Room reached #2 on the iTunes R&B/Soul chart, earned a featured placement on Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlist, and led the band to its late-night television debut on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly.[1] The album, which combines elements of Lawrence's old and new influences while featuring themes of childhood and family issues,[1] was co-produced by bandmates Jordan Cohen (tenor/baritone saxophone) and Jonny Koh (guitar), Brooklyn-based producer Eli Crews, and Clyde and Gracie themselves.[8]

Lawrence has performed both in the United States and internationally. The band has headlined several tours across the USA and also has appeared at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, SXSW, Electric Forest, Firefly, Okeechobee, and Hangout festivals.[19] The band has also opened for Jon Bellion, Lake Street Dive, Vulfpeck, Soulive, Jacob Collier, Blues Traveler, O.A.R., and Bernhoft.[4]

Jon Bellion collaboration and record deal[]

In February 2019, Lawrence announced via social media that the band would be an opener for Jon Bellion on his summer 2019 national tour, the Glory Sound Prep Tour.[20] In June, Lawrence released its first of many Jon Bellion-produced singles, "Casualty". In July, Bellion and Lawrence announced that Bellion had launched his own record label, Beautiful Mind Records and had signed Lawrence as its first artist.[21][22][23] Bellion has stated that his intention with this new label is to "take care of artists for the rest of their careers" and to create a family of musical creators who he supports and with whom he collaborates.[24]

Band members[]

  • Gracie Lawrence – Lead Vocals/Tambourine
  • Clyde Lawrence – Lead Vocals/Keyboard
  • Sam Askin – Drums
  • Sumner Becker – Alto Sax
  • Jordan Cohen – Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Background Vocals
  • Michael Karsh – Bass, Background Vocals
  • Jonny Koh – Guitar, Background Vocals
  • Marc Langer – Trumpet


Discography[]

Studio albums[]

  • Homesick (EP) (2013)
  • Breakfast (2016)
  • Breakfast: Unscrambled (Acoustic Sessions) (2018)
  • Living Room (2018)
  • The Live Album (Part 1) (2020)
  • The Live Album (Part 2) (2021)
  • Hotel TV (2021)

Singles[]

  • Do You Wanna Do Nothing With Me? (2017)
  • Misty Morning (2017)
  • Probably Up (2018)
  • Make A Move (2018)
  • Casualty (2019)
  • Casualty (Acoustic) (2019)
  • It's Not All About You (2019)
  • The Weather (2020)
  • Quarantined With You (2020)
  • Freckles (2020)
  • Freckles (Live in LA) (2020)
  • Don't Lose Sight (2021)
  • False Alarms (with Jon Bellion) (2021)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Rathe, Adam (May 11, 2017). "Meet Lawrence, the World Economic Forum's Favorite Rock Band". Town & Country. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Bio — Lawrence the Band". Lawrence. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Gracie and Clyde of "Lawrence" Return to Perform for High School Assembly". Dalton School. January 11, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d Goodman, Lawrence (August 15, 2015). "Music Is What I Do". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Downtown Magazine (April 27, 2016). "Lawrence Founders Clyde and Gracie Lawrence to Headline Rockwood Music Hall on May 6". Downtown Magazine. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Homesick, by Clyde Lawrence". Clyde Lawrence. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "Shop Shes Beauty Shes Grace T-Shirts online". Spreadshirt. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  8. ^ a b Cala, Christina (April 13, 2017). "Siblings Gracie And Clyde Lawrence On Touring And The Meaning Of Home". NPR. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  9. ^ "Clyde Lawrence". IMDb. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  10. ^ "Clyde Lawrence, Cody Fitzgerald - Noelle (Behind the Scenes)". YouTube. February 13, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ a b "Sounding Off". Brown Daily Herald Features. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  12. ^ a b "SOLD OUT: Brown student/alumni band, Lawrence, rocks the Bowery Ballroom!". www.brownnyc.org. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  13. ^ a b Gracie Lawrence - One Dollar Cast Member, archived from the original on February 2, 2020, retrieved November 17, 2021
  14. ^ "Gracie Lawrence". IMDb. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  15. ^ The Editors (August 1, 2018). "Meet Gracie Lawrence, Actress and Half of a Sibling Pop Duo". Town & Country. Retrieved August 1, 2019. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  16. ^ "Music Is What I Do". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  17. ^ Rathe, Adam (May 11, 2017). "Meet Lawrence, the World Economic Forum's Favorite Rock Band". Town & Country. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  18. ^ "Lawrence". Spotify. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  19. ^ Zak, Mimi (January 16, 2016). "Let's make pop music cool again: A conversation with the band Lawrence". Michigan Daily. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  20. ^ "Lawrence". www.facebook.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  21. ^ "Beautiful Mind Records (@BMindRecords) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  22. ^ Lawrence – Casualty, retrieved August 6, 2019
  23. ^ Lawrence (June 7, 2019). "HERE'S THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: We've been in the studio with @jonbellion making a whole bunch of new Lawrence songs!! The first single is called "Casualty" and it comes out June 21st pic.twitter.com/bc4FNXk8Q6". @lawrencetheband. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  24. ^ Stephan, Tiara (July 23, 2019). "Review – Jon Bellion Electrified and Improvised at the Fillmore". 303 Magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2019.

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