La Roux is an English synthpop act formed in 2008 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid.
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18 Facts About La Roux
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The act's debut album La Roux was a critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy Award and producing hit singles such as "In for the Kill" and "Bulletproof".
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La Roux released her third album, Supervision, independently in 2020.
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The band's debut album, La Roux, was released on 26 June 2009 to generally favourable reviews.
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La Roux then headlined the NME Radar Tour alongside Magistrates and Heartbreak, performed at the Glastonbury and Reading and Leeds festivals as well as London's Scala.
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La Roux performed on Chromeo's third album Business Casual, providing chorus vocals for the track "Hot Mess" which was released as a single in early 2011.
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La Roux started a low-key comeback tour on 28 March 2013 in Brighton during which she premiered four new songs.
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La Roux toured North America in July 2014, including two opening shows for New Order in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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La Roux then continued the tour alternating between Europe and North America, before embarking on the Australian leg at the end of the year.
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La Roux's touring band consisted of four musicians, including keyboardist and backing vocalist Mickey O'Brien.
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La Roux filmed a cameo appearance for the film Absolutely Fabulous, released the following year, in which she performed "Sexotheque" and "Uptight Downtown".
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La Roux announced a concert tour in Europe in February and North America in March 2020 to support Supervision, having recruited new touring musicians.
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La Roux featured on Boulevards' single "Too Far" and CASisDEAD's single and video "Park Assist".
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La Roux appeared in the Sky Arts documentary Blitzed: The 80's Blitz Kids' Story in which she discussed the cultural effects of the New Romantic movement on younger performers like herself.
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La Roux was particularly interested in Carole King and Nick Drake whose music she discovered in her parents' record collection.
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In July 2010, La Roux curated and mixed a volume of Sidetracked, a compilation series from Renaissance that allows artists from the electronic field free rein to showcase their musical interests.
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