Lauren Minear — artist
With her singular blend of soul-laced folk-pop, Lauren Minear is a Nashville-raised singer-songwriter who released her debut album, Invisible Woman, on October 14th, 2022. Steeped in the vulnerability of Nashville soul, hers is the real deal; tender and emotive, yet raw and brutally honest songwriting in the lineage of Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, and Gillian Welch. Like these women, Lauren wears her heart on her sleeve as she explores the corners of love through a fragile lens of self-awareness, evoking the likes of Anais Mitchell, Taylor Swift, and Natalie Merchant. Born in Manhattan, Lauren’s family moved to Nashville where she grew up, spending her formative years sharing her parent’s love of Brooks & Dunn, KD Lang, Garth Brooks, and Patsy Cline; as well as being immersed in both the sounds coming from the country music radio stations they tuned into on their regular drives from the city to New Orleans to visit her grandparents and the southern soul there, radiating out of The Big Easy.