Louise Goffin

Louise Goffin observed her celebrated parents, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, as they shaped numerous enduring pop compositions during her childhood. Constant exposure to music defined her upbringing as their daughter. At six she began piano studies, and by eight she had started composing original material, yet performing vocals caused her considerable unease. Recording nevertheless became her focus with the 1979 appearance of Kid Blue. A self-titled album arrived in 1981, and the following year she supplied “Uptown Boys” to the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack. Her third album, This Is the Place, came out on Warner Bros. in 1988 without securing widespread recognition.

Nearly a decade afterward she felt compelled to resume her career. Refining her approach yielded a more polished and nuanced sound that aligned with Shawn Colvin’s directness and Aimee Mann’s understated ease. DreamWorks introduced her Sometimes a Circle in early 2002. She and her mother also revisited King’s well-known “Where You Lead” to create the theme for the WB series The Gilmore Girls. Bad Little Animals appeared in 2008 on her Majority of One label. Her sixth studio album, Songs from the Mine, returned in 2014 and featured Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp on the single “Watching the Sky Turn Blue.”