Lauren Hoffman

The album cover for her EP The Chemist Said It Would Be Alright But I’ve Never Been The Same, was designed by outsider artist Wes Freed. Another Song About the Darkness, from her album Choreography, is included on The Sound the Hare Heard album.

Hoffman produced her second album From The Blue House, which was released in 1999. Her major was Dance Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University — which inspired the name of her third album, Choreography. She left VCU in 2002. Throughout her travel experiences she eventually recorded The Lucknow Demos. These recordings also partly inspirited her 2006 album Choreography, preceded by the release of her fourth album Interplanetary Traveler. She recorded this album in a studio in Israel; it was released in 2010. Hoffman and her friends later formed a band in Charlottesville: The Secret Storm. After their first two EPs, In the Sun and The Dragon, they released Family Ghost in 2017 under a new name: Lauren Hoffman & The Secret Storm. She released several of her EPs and albums in both Europe and America on 7" and 12" vinyl and CD.

Five of Hoffman's songs from Choreography were played throughout the groundbreaking LGBT series South of Nowhere: Ghost You Know, Magic Stick, Hope You Don't Mind, Reasons to Fall, and Broken. Her song Rock Star appears on the soundtrack of the 1998 motion picture, Palmetto.

Lauren Hoffman is an American singer-songwriter. She released her debut album Megiddo through Virgin Records in 1997 to critical praise. In 1999 Hoffman independently issued her second LP From The Blue House, and an EP entitled A Harmless Little Kiss. Her third album Choreography was released through French record label Fargo Records in 2006, which includes her successful single "Broken." Between 2015 and 2017, Hoffman worked with a new band, The Secret Storm, and released two EPs and a fourth full-length album Family Ghost. Her most recent release, the Mercury Girls EP, was hailed as a "stunner" by Rolling Stone.

After her album Megiddo was released in 1997, Hoffman spent some time traveling India, Europe and Israel to tour and forego her musical endeavour. She later studied the art of dance and choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2002 she decided to move forward from the study of dance to pursue her passion of music, while also incorporating her talent as a dancer. With her fellow peers, Hoffman went on to produce several musical and dance video productions for some of her songs, including Solipsist and Another Song About the Darkness — Choreography (2006).

Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, in 1977. She moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 2 and started writing songs and playing guitar at 12 years old. She also played bass with Shannon Worrell and Kristin Asbury in a band called Monsoon, named after the Thai restaurant in which they played. She later left the band to focus on her career. Hoffman released her first full length album Megiddo when she was 19. She parted ways with Virgin Records while taking her full rights of the album — as it was poorly promoted. Megiddo was also largely recognized throughout Europe, especially France. Hoffman produced Megiddo with John Morand and David Lowery; the album was mixed by Ethan Johns and recorded at the Sound of Music studio in Richmond. During her early career, she was artistically inspired by Jeff Buckley.