Biography
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Born
24 November 1990 (age 33)
Laura Cox (born 24 November 1990) is an Anglo-French guitarist, singer and songwriter. Since 2008, she has achieved international recognition on YouTube as a guitarist. She is also the singer and lead guitarist of the Laura Cox Band, a rock band that she formed in 2013. See Laura Cox Band.
Right from birth, Laura’s cradle songs were played by The Band, ZZ Top, Johnny Cash, Dire Straits and so many others, plus Roger McGuinn’s Rickenbacker of course. She grew up discovering all this country, folk and rock culture from her English father…
Laura started playing the guitar relatively late, in 2005, at 14 years old, and soon acquired a following on the Net, through her early cover versions of a few great rock classics and mythical solos. She was so pleased and excited to be complimented by blues living-legend, Joe Bonamassa.
Laura Cox started posting her guitar solos on Youtube in 2008, and has since become one of the best-known girl guitar players on Internet. Laura is a rare blend of twenty-first century talent and traditional musical values, and she was among the first to work using 2.0 tools, mainly Youtube.
The figures alone are impressive:
-more than 47 million views and 200 000 subscribers on Youtube,
-more than 140 000 « Likes » on her Facebook page, since it was created in 2013.
But Laura had an increasing desire to play rock & roll live, the way it should be, and to get on the road, so she decided to make the change from « virtual » to « real », and form her own group.
At this point, Laura met Mathieu Albiac, another young and talented guitarist, with similar musical passions. In 2013, the two of them formed The Laura Cox Band, based in the Paris region, and the project was born… They were a little bit lost in what is certainly a very different French musical scene. They always prefer a good heavy riff to pop, and they wanted to devote their musical talents to creating a sound that’s becoming increasingly rare in France: pure classic and southern rock.
Discography
Laura Cox Band - Hard Blues Shot (2017)
Laura Cox - Burning Bright (2019)
Laura Cox - Head Above Water (2023)
See Laura Cox Band.
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