Laura Gertken

Laura Lee is a Berlin-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. She first gained international attention as one half of the Berlin indie rock band Gurr, with whom she won the 2018 Impala Award for Best European Indie Album of the Year. In January 2020, Laura Lee starred alongside Iris Berben in the ZDF film *Nicht tot zu kriegen* (directed by Nina Grosse), for which she composed two songs together with Andreya Casablanca. In 2020, Laura Lee launched her solo career under the name Laura Lee & the Jettes. Following the release of her first album, she performed in New York at the New Colossus Festival, at SXSW in Austin, Texas, and as the opening act for the Beatsteaks. Laura Lee is a Keychange fellow, an initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of women and underrepresented groups in the music industry, where she serves as a mentor to emerging artists. Since August 2022, she has been the mother of a daughter and documents her daily life back in the music industry in the Noisey-produced documentary “6 Hours with Laura Lee.”

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