Louise Goffin
Louise Goffin is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Louise grew up bound by the DNA of great songwriting. She first appeared singing on records as a young girl, when she performed back-up vocals on Cheech and Chong's Basketball Jones, and on Carole King’s soundtrack for Maurice Sendak’s classic animated children’s movie, Really Rosie. Snagging record contracts over the years with Elektra-Asylum, Warner Bros. and Dreamworks, Louise’s debut album Kid Blue came out when she was 19. She prides herself on a balanced work/home life, yet remains prolific, having gone on to release nine more albums on both majors and her own independent Majority of One label. She also co-wrote and produced an album for Carole King that earned King a Grammy nomination in 2011.
Much respected by fellow artists and peers in the industry, she has been asked to bring her multi-instrumental skills to other projects. In the mid ‘90s, she toured as a guitarist and background vocalist in Tears for Fears, and appeared in a video playing banjo with Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. Even more famously, she sang alongside her iconic mother on the theme song for the wildly popular TV drama Gilmore Girls. At the start of her career, she was the youngest artist to appear on the soundtrack of the Cameron Crowe high school cult classic, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, with her original and infectious “Uptown Boys”.
And 2022 has Goffin appearing as a featured artist on the 50th Anniversary Tribute to Todd Rundgren’s Something/Anything? album. Her energetic, Motown-infused spin on Rundgren’s 1972 AM radio hit "I Saw the Light" pays tribute to the pop classic that opened his 1972 double album. Louise was called by co-producer Fernando Perdomo (Echo In The Canyon) to give the song a new spin. Darian Sahanaja (Brian Wilson), Marcella Detroit (Shakespeare's Sister, Eric Clapton), Kaitlin Wolfberg (Calico, The Monkees) and Scot Sax (Lucinda Williams, Tim McGraw) helped turn "I Saw the Light" into a feel-good stomper. The song is mixed by five-time Grammy-winning engineer Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Macy Gray, Shakira).
Her latest albums, All These Hellos and Two Different Movies, feature Van Dyke Parks with a classic Hollywood movie arrangement of the Goffin/Harvey penned “Chinatown'', and Goffin’s lyric and music composition, “Oh My God”. The two albums boast duets with Chris Difford from Squeeze, Rufus Wainwright, and oft-collaborator Billy Harvey.
Her recordings appear in film and television. Watching The Sky Turn Blue plays out the credits on the quirky indie film Carrie Pilby. Her self-penned Archives appears in the Gilmore Girls Netflix reboot. She covers a classic Christmas song in Bad Santa 2, and can be heard in an episode of Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce.
Louise’s songwriting has been praised by Doobie Brothers singer-songwriter Michael McDonald (NY Times interview 2009) and her songs have been recorded by artists of varying genres. Some of the artists performing her songs are her mother, Carole King, Vanessa Amorosi, Shawn Colvin, Nicole Atkins, Terry Reid, Amy Holland, Paul Thorn, and Sara Douga.
In 2016, Louise opened for Carole King’s first-ever live performance of the entire Tapestry album, along with Don Henley, for an historic British Summer Time show in Hyde Park, to a 65,000-full venue.
Louise is a storyteller who loves talking to legendary songwriters, musicians, and producers, giving listeners access to the behind-the-scenes artistic process with her podcast, Song Chronicles which she produces and hosts.
Goffin also dedicates time in her role as Founder and Creative Director of the Goffin-King Foundation, a not-for-profit entity dedicated to empowering songwriters and preserving the legacy of her legendary songwriting parents, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, providing songwriting retreats irrespective of ethnicity, income or age, as well as providing educational opportunities for middle and high schools lacking in arts funding to advance student’s self-expression as songwriters, performers, and musicians.
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