1. Laine Hardy's father Barry is a general contractor for a construction company, and his mother Cindy Lou is a real estate agent.
11 Facts About Laine Hardy
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Laine Hardy has a brother Kyle, and an older sister, Brittany Banta.
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Laine Hardy's maternal grandmother is a Korean immigrant from Seoul.
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Laine Hardy attended French Settlement High School and graduated in 2018.
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Laine Hardy learned to play the guitar when he was eight, and by the time he was 14, he was performing in a band with his brother and cousins called the Band Hardy in local bars and restaurants.
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Laine Hardy first auditioned for the sixteenth season of American Idol, making it to the top 50.
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Laine Hardy did not intend to audition for the seventeenth season, but after accompanying his best friend's sister, Ashton Gill, as a guitar player for her audition, he was encouraged by judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie to audition again.
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Laine Hardy released a three-song EP, In the Bayou, in 2018.
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Laine Hardy performed the single on The View in May 2019.
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On September 20,2019, Laine Hardy announced his first headline tour, a 13-date tour taking place from November 14 through December 7,2019, across the US.
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The warrant alleged that Laine Hardy, who was not an LSU student, had confessed to the woman that he bugged the room while falsely claiming that he threw the device into a pond.