33 Facts About Lauv

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Lauv has written songs for other artists such as "Boys" by Charli XCX and "No Promises" by Cheat Codes and Demi Lovato.

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Lauv spent his early childhood in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and then his family relocated to a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Lauv started writing songs in middle school, at around 14 years old.

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Lauv was so "fully obsessed" in making music and playing shows that he had no interest to "drink, or do drugs, or anything".

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Lauv has said that his sister, Aiva would drive him and his friends on tour, where they often played "to zero people".

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Lauv adopted the artist name, Somersault Sunday, and published some songs and extended plays on his Myspace account.

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Lauv chose to study music technology at New York University's Steinhardt School.

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Lauv spent two of his four years at NYU as a studio intern for Jungle City Studios, where artists such as Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Keys recorded.

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Lauv started it first "as a side project, just for fun," but continued it after receiving enthusiastic online response.

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Lauv posted his songs on MySpace along with some song covers, and kept close contact with his fans through the platform.

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Lauv had a band playing with him during live shows and concerts.

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On September 25,2015, Lauv released his debut EP, Lost in the Light, which featured "The Other".

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Lauv performed at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 3,2018.

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Lauv released the single "There's No Way", a collaboration with Julia Michaels, on September 27,2018.

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In November 2018, Lauv announced his first headlining tour starting the next year in Asia, including India, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Japan.

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Lauv announced that month that he would unveil his debut album How I'm Feeling track by track as it is being recorded, simultaneously with the tour.

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Lauv debuted "Sad Forever" during the show, which gave way to becoming the music video for the single.

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Eleven days later, on May 31,2019, Lauv released the single and music video for "Sad Forever".

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Lauv will be supported in the Asian leg of the tour by American singer-songwriter and social media personality mxmtoon.

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On September 19,2019, Lauv released "Feelings", Two weeks later, on October 3, Lauv released the single "Sims".

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On October 18,2019, Lauv made his debut in K-pop through his collaboration with BTS for the song "Make It Right", which is an ode to ARMY.

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On November 14,2019, Lauv teamed up with LANY for Mean It, with the music video following up on December 17.

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On December 22,2019, Lauv made his debut in Bollywood through a collaboration with composer Rochak Kohli for the song "Dil Na Jaaneya", which features on the soundtrack of Bollywood film Good Newwz.

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On January 2,2020, Lauv released the eighth single and music video for his debut album How I'm Feeling, titled "Changes".

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Two weeks later, on January 16,2020, Lauv released the ninth single and music video for How I'm Feeling, titled "Tattoos Together".

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On February 20,2020, Lauv released the tenth single and visualizer for How I'm Feeling, titled "Modern Loneliness".

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On March 6,2020, Lauv released How I'm Feeling, unveiling three collaborations.

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Exactly two months later, on May 6,2020, Lauv followed up with an additional song which he stated was "going to be on the album", titled "Love Like That", which is a song about how Lauv struggles with reciprocating love.

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On May 1,2020, Lauv marked the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month by teaming up with Alessia Cara, Anne-Marie and Sofia Reyes for a conversation regarding mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, titled "Breaking Modern Loneliness".

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Six days later, on June 30,2020, Lauv collaborated with Ellie Goulding for "Slow Grenade".

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On October 10,2020, in honor of World Mental Health Day, Lauv teamed up with artists, creators and experts from around the world as part of an effort to erase stigma surrounding mental health with a series of livestreamed conversations which can be found on Lauv's YouTube Channel.

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On December 31,2020, Lauv dropped the surprise single "2021" as a New Years Eve special.

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On January 18,2022, Lauv announced his second studio album is "done", with the lead single titled "26" released on January 28.