Laura Rizzotto

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Laura de Carvalho Rizzotto (Latvian: Laura di Karvalu Rizoto; born 18 July 1994) is a Latvian-Brazilian singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist.

She released her debut studio album Made in Rio in 2011 through Universal Music Brazil, which included the single "Friend in Me".

In 2014, she independently released her second studio album Reason to Stay, and independently released the extended play RUBY in 2017. Rizzotto represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Funny Girl", but achieved the 12th place during the 2nd semifinal and didn't qualify to the final.

Early life and education

Rizzotto was born on 18 July 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has an older brother named Lucas Rizzotto, who's a VR/AR creator, and a younger sister named Carolina Rizzotto, who's a content creator, videographer, photographer and producer. Her father is a Brazilian of Latvian descent, with his mother being born in Liepāja and raised in Riga, and her mother is Brazilian with Portuguese roots.

Rizzotto and her family moved to the United States in 2005, and settled in Edina, Minnesota for a year. During that time, she learned how to speak English on the go, by going to school and being surrounded by American kids. In 2006 she moved back to Brazil with her family and spent the rest of her childhood in Ipanema, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.

Laura started studying music at only 8 years old, taking classical piano lessons until she was 17. She also studied classical ballet for 8 years in the Escola Estadual de Danças Maria Olenewa, a dance conservatory in Rio. She even competed as a ballet dancer, until she decided to dedicate herself to music full-time. At 14 years old, Laura started taking her first singing lessons.

In 2012, Laura received a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. She moved to the United States then to pursue her musical studies and an international career. In 2013, Rizzotto moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BFA degree in musical arts. Afterwards, she moved to New York City and received a master's degree in music from Columbia University in 2017.

Rizzotto currently lives in Los Angeles, US.

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Career

Rizzotto began performing her first professional shows as a singer/songwriter in Rio de Janeiro, 15 years old, when she first started performing her first professional shows as a musician/songwriter. She signed her first album deal with Universal Music Brazil a few months after. Laura's debut studio album Made in Rio, which featured 15 original songs (12 in English and 3 Portuguese versions), as well as others in collaboration with her older brother, Lucas. Paul Ralphes and the Grammy Award-winning maestro Eumir Deodato contributed to the album.

Rizzotto appeared as the opening act for Demi Lovato at her A Special Night with Demi Lovato in Brazil in 2012. Shortly after, the singer received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston and moved to the United States to pursue a foreign career.

Laura moved from Los Angeles, California, to work on her sophomore album by herself in 2013. Reason to Stay, she self-released her second studio album. In 2014, the borough of Lancaster was named in a book. The artist graduated from her BFA in Musical Arts at the University of the Arts and then moved to NYC to study a master's degree in Music and work on her third solo project.

Rizzotto began her studies at Columbia University in 2015 after being given a full scholarship for their Masters program in Music. She earned an MA in Music and Music Education from the Ivy League College in 2017. Jennifer Lopez, a Portuguese language coach, worked with her from 2016 to 2017 after being recruited by Sony Music.

Laura was the moderator of the Music and Culture panel at the Brazil Conference in April 2017. Gilberto Gil, Brazil's former culture minister, and Yamandu Costa, a virtuoso on the acoustic guitar, were on the panel.

Rizzotto released RUBY, her third solo project and first EP, in 2018. Laura also produced the soundtrack for "Where Thoughts Go," a multi-award-winning VR experience that was featured in many festivals around the world, including the coveted Tribeca Film Festival. She also appeared in Latvia at the Riga Jazz Festival and was invited to perform at the United Nations General Assembly.

Laura took first place in the Supernova 2018 competition in January 2018, the National Latvian Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Laura performed Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, the world's biggest music festival, where she performed her original song "Funny Girl" to a audience of nearly 100 million viewers.

Laura moved to Los Angeles to work on her 3rd studio album and continue on her career as an songwriter and singer after Eurovision.

Laura made history by partnering with METASTAGE, an Augmented Reality capture studio. Laura Rizzotto, an international singer/songwriter, is the first musician to have a 3D virtual appearance with Metastage, a holocapture stage based in Los Angeles, United States. Metastage's goal is to produce true-to-life immersive video by filming live performances and then presenting them in augmented or virtual reality. Laura's virtual tour with Metastage can be seen in iOS or Android. Laura Rizzotto has released her single "One More Night" in augmented reality as well as a virtual interpretation of her Eurovision Song "Funny Girl" on YouTube. On Forbes Magazine, the project was highlighted.

Laura became a registered voting member of the Recording Academy in 2020, enabling her to vote for the academy, suggest new talents for the academy, submit music for their awards, and attend their private functions.

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