Simon and Garfunkel, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Damien Rice, Anna Nalick, KT Tunstall, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Dido, Jewel, Keane, Led Zeppelin, Melissa Etheridge, Toby Lightman and many more! Basically all music that I hear has influenced my songwriting. From my favorite songs that I play over and over, to the songs I come across that I can't even stand to listen to...especially those bad ones...help me define what it is I love in music and what I don't want to sound like.
Sounds Like
I’ve gotten everything from...
Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Sheryll Crow, Jewel, Anna Nalick, KT Tunstall
She may look like a beauty queen, but sweet and saccharine she’s not.
A seventh-generation Texan, Laura Ault doesn’t sound like your typical Texas rose. Her songs are like soft slaps to the cheek - a half-caress with just enough force to leave you stinging. She sings of love - and oftentimes it’s lost –but she’s always laughing between the lines.
A true singer-songwriter, Laura is happiest when she’s collaborating – even her earliest memories are of singing Simon & Garfunkel in the car along with her mother, discussing the lyrical nuances of ‘Cecilia.’
Laura also credits her family with her diverse taste in music – a notorious spontaneous singer, Laura’s mother would often break out into song should she hear a snippet of conversation resembling popular song lyrics.
Combined with cross-country RV trips laced with John Denver sing-alongs, Laura’s songwriting direction became very clear: she would write songs that didn’t just paint a passive picture of life, but that seemed destined to be
sung like the song and dance numbers in the musicals she grew up watching: necessary expressions of life that couldn’t be conveyed in any other way. She began writing songs on the piano at age 17, composing soundtracks
for movie concepts she’d developed in her head. In college, she pursued theatre, thinking musicals would be her career direction – but voice lessons convinced her that singing and songwriting were her passions. Since moving
to New York, Laura continues to pursue her acting career, appearing in a number of stage, television, film and modeling projects, but her focus is firmly on her singing career. Her songs are currently being licensed for television and film placement, and she can be seen and heard performing throughout New York City.
With influences as diverse as Paul Simon (on of her songwriting idols) and legendary stars of the Broadway stage, Laura Ault is a singer like no other – as much a romantic as she is a charismatic firecracker, her songs speak softly of love yet refuse to back down from the prospect of heartbreak.
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Hey!! Come by my page today and have a listen to my six song tribute to the Beatles if for no other reason than to hear Girl Friday throw caution to the wind and jam a bit on Come Together! Hahaha!!!!! Thanks! Mwah!!
Great job at Sullivan Hall last week!!! I LOVED the song that was a play on French words. It was adorable. "Sil vous plais" me. haha!!! Where can I find that. I'm in TX, but originally from LA, so I'm all over the French!! :-) Have you recorded it?
Hey there! Would love to come to the show but I'll be performing in Paramus tomorrow night (doesn't that sound like a terrible song title, Performing in Paramus).
Hello lovely. I was just at Chris's and forgot to ask him to show me the pictures from your shoot:( Hope all is well, I'll be here until the 18th, so we must hook up.
