Miss London sings with a powerhouse of emotion, vocally she has a wide range — a big voice. She has the ability to sing virtually any style of music ranging from Jazz to Operatic music. Miss London is a published songwriter and at a very early age had the honor of composing with noted arranger, composer and conductor Lew Douglas. He wrote songs such as Pretend, Why Don't You Believe Me and Have You Heard recorded by the talents of Patti Page, Joni James, and The Duprees. Lori has opened for music legends such as The Duprees, The Brooklyn Bridge, Kenny Vance and The Planotones, Queen of Country Miss Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Ray Price, Mel Tillis, Queen of Bluegrass Miss Rhonda Vincent and The Rage, most recently for the annual APOL dinner dance and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and at the Chicago Cultural Center under the Tiffany Dome for a Friends of Animal Welfare fundraiser. Miss London has performed with Chicago's Ambassador of Music Franz Benteler and The Royal Strings Orchestra. She's performed at the historic landmark Tampa Theatre and Cuban Club in Ybor City — Tampa Florida. In New York for the 158th Birthday Celebration for genius inventor Nikola Tesla. Miss London recalls standing on the very site where the Tesla Tower had stood at Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory! Miss London performs as a tribute artist in "Patsy Meets Elvis" in which she gives an emotionally charged performance as the voice of Patsy Cline. She once performed tribute as the humorous June Carter Cash, in The Man In Black.
Although Miss London enjoys many styles and genres of music, she truly adores the music of Broadway and The American Songbook.
Her music has been heard on the radio in Nashville, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Internationally in Germany and Austria. Her music is played regularly at TLC radio in New Zealand and WDCB in Chicago. She has written commercial radio spots for WVLT 92.1FM New Jersey and was the voice-over talent for the ads. Visit Lori at the following sites to learn more and listen to her music. www.lorilondonmusic.com www.lorilondonentertainment.com
Miss London is a multiple award-winning children's book author. She creates the character voices, performs narration and is the voice of her creation — Tripi The Fly™
It's about a fly who can't fly, but one who longs for adventure! Tripi can talk, read and write; he can even dance and sing! He just can't do this one thing, fly! Since it's release it's won a Mom's Choice Award, and is an Honoree Silver Medal recipient, Pinnacle Achievement Award for her audiobooks and the illustrations! She just released the second installment — Tripi Visits France and will be submitting for a Ted Giesel Award! Soon there will be a 5-minute cartoon short for submission to Nickelodeon!! Lori believes that the stories are film, and that's the goal!
Check out her videos at her entertainment site! Both sites are linked to one another!
Watch for Tripi, landing in a city near you!
Just Google Tripi The Fly!!!
Lori has been in the motion pictures "Sweet Home Alabama, The Terminal and Surviving Christmas. Acting has always been at the heart of everything Miss London does. She was approached by a production company in Atlanta and in submission is a reality tv pilot in which she starred, wrote and directed called "Life With Lori" As a child she earned lead roles in classic productions of Alice In Wonderland, The Wizard Of Oz, and even as the cantankerous Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. White shoe polish in the hair, and cast as a man!! The roles she played were some of her first experiences on the stage and her love of acting was permanently fixed! She would not have traded those formative acting experiences for anything. Acting is at the heart of everything that she does! Lori London is a proud alumnus of The Second City in Chicago.
She has met and collaborated with some incredible people along her yellow brick road and is blessed to have worked with the talents of Lew Douglas, Harold Bradley, Carl Bonafede and Al Dvorin. She said they gave clarity and inspiration…
She wanted to include this message to anyone who would be inspired.
Live a life of inspiration, keep your dreams and more importantly, to thine own self be true…
With a song in my heart………Lori London
MUSIC
Miss London is a published songwriter and several of her songs can be found on her first music cd titled "Wreckless Heart" On this cd she collaborated with composer, arranger, musician and orchestra leader Lew Douglas along with music producer Dan Belloc of the Billy May Orchestra and The Buckinghams. Her second cd titled "Songbird" is a compilation of Country music featuring the stylings of Patsy Cline. In the mix are several songs from movie musicals and a couple of Lori's originals. Her third and most recent is titled simply "Serenade." This is a pairing of early Jazz, some from the American Songbook and Broadway show tunes. Miss London recently sang at the beautiful Landmark Tampa Theatre in Florida. She closed the show with several Christmas favorites including White Christmas. Feb 21st Lori opened for The Duprees. They had #1 hits with Why Don't You Believe Me, Have You Heard and You Belong To Me. Two of which were co-written by Lori's dear friend Lew Douglas. Miss London performed for Nikola Tesla's 158th Birthday Celebration in Shoreham N. Y. on Long Island July 10th! The event was held at Wardenclyffe, the site of his laboratory. Now on the historic register, it will be home to the Tesla Science Center and Museum. She has had the honor of being the opening musical act for Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, Marty Robbins, Mel Tillis, The Brooklyn Bridge, and Kenny Vance and The Planotones and others. Last year performing at the annual Celebrate Sinatra Event at the historic Cuban Club in Ybor City in Tampa Florida. She has performed the music of Broadway, Opera, Big Band and movie musicals with "Chicago's Ambassador Of Music" Franz Benteler and The Royal Strings Orchestra. Her time in Chicago also had her collaborating with one of Chicago's own. "The Screaming Wildman" Carl Bonafede. Carl has recorded hits in the way of Werewolf and Story That's True. Carl promoted and recorded over 200 musical groups during the 50's and 60's as well as being the manager of The Buckinghams. Carl produced a compilation cd of Lori's work and his all-girl band The Daughters Of Eve. In 2014 Lori had the pleasure of opening for the very classy "Queen Of Bluegrass" herself! Miss Rhonda Vincent and The Rage! During her time in Nashville, Lori performed at the world famous Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, The Nashville Palace, Wildhorse Saloon, Gilley's and Rainbow Room at Printers Alley. Recently she had the pleasure of performing with the talents of Miss Kitty Daniels and Bobby G. Summers, two very diverse and incredibly talented pianists in Tampa Florida. Miss Kitty as she is fondly called has played with the talents of The Count Basie Orchestra, B.B. King, James Brown, Etta James and Dizzy Gillespie. Miss Kitty is such a gifted artist, she is the piano!! Bobby played 18 years with the fabulous Al Green!! Recently Lori performed as June Carter Cash along with Branson tribute artist Jackson Cash in Chicago. Lori continues to perform in as many different concerts as possible!
FILM AND TELEVISION
- Sweet Home Alabama – Festival dancer, Melanie's cousin – Touchstone Pictures
- The Terminal – United Airlines gate agent – Dreamworks Pictures
- Surviving Christmas – Holiday shopper – Dreamworks Pictures
- In My Life – Sixties racist protestor – Turner Network
- You Can Be A Star – Singing contestant – TNN Nashville Network
- Mornings On Fox – Guest performer – FOX17 Nashville Network
- Most Wanted Live – Guest performer – CMT Country Music Television
- V-Spann Christmas – Guest performer – CANTV 19 Chicago
- Written, Directed, Produced and Starred in "Life With Lori" a reality television pilot episode
RADIO
- The Drive At 5 – WVLT 92.1FM – New Jersey – Wrote commercial ads and performed voice over
- for the musical variety concert – "The Melodies Of Broadway"
- All Things Jazz – WDCB 90.0FM – Chicago – Guest performance and interview
- Pepper Paul Show – WVLT 92.1FM – New Jersey – Guest performance and interview
- Midwest Ballroom WDCB 90.9FM – Chicago – Guest performance and interview
- TLC Music Network TLCR 107.7FM Auckland New Zealand
TRAINING
- The Second City Improv – Chicago
- Act One Studio – Scene Work TV and Film Study – Chicago
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