Maude Latour is an American singer-songwriter.
Early life and education
Latour was born in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
.
Her father is
Almar Latour, former executive editor of ''
The Wall Street Journal'' and CEO of
Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour.
The company publishes ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Barron's'', ''MarketWatch'', ''Mansion Global'', ''Financial News'' and ''Private Equ ...
, and her mother is a journalist for
S&P Global. She lived in
London and attended
Hong Kong International School before attending the
Brearley School in
Manhattan. Latour graduated from
Columbia University in 2022 as a philosophy major.
Career
Latour began songwriting at 15 and uploading her music to Spotify at 17. She released her first EP, "High School High" in 2018, however it has been taken off streaming platforms. She released her second EP, ''Starsick'', in 2019, which includes songs such as “Superfruit”, “Shoot and Run”, and “Lovesick”
Latour is currently signed to
Warner Records. She released her breakout single “One More Weekend” in July 2020 and it has amassed over 29 million streams on Spotify.
Latour released her second EP ''Strangers Forever'' in October 2021
and in the spring of 2022 she headlined her first tour,
performing in 13 cities across North America.
In 2022, Latour released singles “Headphones”, “Lola”, and “Trees”.
She performed at
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago. It originally started as a touring event in 1991 but several years later made Chicago the permanent location for the annual music festival. Musi ...
in July 2022. Ahead of the festival, she released a new single, "Probabilities". In addition to headlining her "What is This Feeling?" tour, Latour performed at multiple music festivals in the fall, including
Austin City Limits Music Festival,
All Things Go Fall Classic
The All Things Go Fall Classic is a Washington D.C.-based annual outdoor music festival. The festival started in 2014 and is produced by the company All Things Go.
The festival was first held at the Union Market in D.C. It expanded to the 15, ...
, and
Music Midtown.
On September 16, 2022, Latour shared on Instagram that she covered
Kim Wilde's "
Kids in America" for 2022 Netflix film "
Do Revenge". 3 days later, Latour announced her newest EP, ''001'', was to be released on September 30, 2022.
On ''001,'' 2 new songs were released, "001" and "Living It". Later on December 9, 2022 a new song "Reality television" was added to ''001''.
Discography
EPs
Singles
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American pop musicians
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Brearley School alumni
Warner Records artists
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
American indie pop musicians
American people of Dutch descent