Lauren Jenkins

Lauren Jenkins fused contemporary country and pop through her husky vocals and straightforward lyrics while working across singing, songwriting, filmmaking, and acting. She launched her music career on the road at fifteen. As an adult she divided her schedule among New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville, alternating film work with co-writing sessions and studio time. More than a decade into her musical efforts, her debut album No Saint appeared in 2019.

Texas-born and South Carolina-raised, she performed her own material in East Coast clubs from the age of fifteen and maintained a steady presence in New York City clubs by seventeen. She soon moved there to pursue both stage work and acting studies, later splitting her time between New York and Los Angeles. In 2009 she took on several crew roles for the film Cigarette Girl, then appeared onscreen as a bartender in the 2010 feature N-Secure and the TV movie Touch Trade. She landed a lead part in the 2012 film Deadline. While continuing to focus on music, she attracted the interest of Big Machine Records, which signed her in 2014 and released The Nashville Sessions EP in 2016.

In 2017 Jenkins directed the music video for singer/songwriter Ingrid Andress’ song “The Stranger.” The next year she starred in the short Western Running Out of Road, which she co-wrote with its director Cole Smith. By then maintaining a part-time residence in Nashville, she wrote her full-length debut with collaborators including Ross Copperman, Shane McAnally, Liz Rose, and Trey Bruce. Jenkins and Julian Raymond (Glen Campbell, Sugarland) produced most of the tracks, and Big Machine issued No Saint in March 2019.