Lauv Trivia | 40 facts about the famous singer

Lauv is a successful singer known for his distinctive style and his particular songs.

Let’s find out more about Lauv!

1. His full name is Ari Staprans Leff.
2. Ari means lion in Hebrew.
3. His star sign is Leo, which is represented by the lion.
4. The name Lauv is the Latvian word for lion.
5. He chose to use this name as his stage name because of family links with Latvia.
6. His mother Silvija Staprāns was a vaccine researcher and has Latvian heritage. Lauv’s father Stuart Leff, was a teacher.
7. Lauv has 2 older sisters.
8. Lauv is his professional name.
9. He was born on born August 8, 1994.
10. Lauv is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
11. He is best known for his compilation albumI Met You When I Was 18 (The Playlist), which was released in 2018.
12. His debut album, How I’m Feeling, was released on March 6, 2020.
13. It actually debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200.
14. Lauv has also written songs for other artists including the singles “Boys” by Charli XCX, “No Promises” by Cheat Codes and Demi Lovato and “Imperfections” by Celine Dion.
15. Leff was born in San Francisco, California.
16. He spent his early childhood in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, before his family relocated to a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went to Radnor High School.
17. As a child, he was interested in music and took piano and viola lessons before learning how to play the guitar at the age of 11.
18. Leff studied guitar, recording, sound design, production, voice, and songwriting with Jason Brook Zimmerman, co-owner and founder of the music lesson organization, Traveling Musician.
19. He started writing songs in middle school, at around 14 years old.
20. Many of his songs during this period focused on heartbreak and breakups, despite at the time, never having had a girlfriend.
21. During his time in high school, he played in several bands and studied jazz before moving on to electronic music.
22. He was so “fully obsessed” in making music and playing shows that he had no interest to “drink, or do drugs, or anything”.
23. He has said that his sister, Aiva would drive him and his friends on tour, where they often played “to zero people”.
24. His early musical influences were Owl City and Never Shout Never.
25. He would listen to Owl City’s “Maybe I’m Dreaming” and study the production style and the abstract lyrical themes that use “dreamy” and “whimsical” images to describe love.
26. He also adopted the artist name, Somersault Sunday, and published some songs and extended plays on his Myspace account.
27. After graduating high school, Leff decided to pursue a behind-the-scenes role in music seeing that his career was not taking off. He chose to study music technology at New York University’s Steinhardt School.
28. While at university, he studied abroad in Prague and was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
29. He spent two of his four years at NYU as a studio intern for Jungle City Studios, where artists such as Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Keys recorded.
30. During his junior year, he signed a publishing deal after the success of his song “The Other” but he decided to finish university and “enjoy it” having only a year left and because he was also feeling “fortunate enough to be able to go there”.
31. In 2019, singer-songwriter Lauv created a game like Flappy Bird called “Billy Meets World”, which he named after his pet dog.
32. In his early childhood, his family moved from California to Atlanta, Georgia before they settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
33. As a child Lauv developed a passion for music, so he started by learning to play the piano and viola. This developed into his learning guitar when he turned 11.
34. Somersault Sunday was Lauv’s first stage name and band. Under this name, he started posting his songs on MySpace. His first self-produced release was “Say Hello To The Ground.”
35. Ed Sheeran and Lauv officially started the tour together on November 11, 2017, in Singapore.
36. Lauv dated American singer-songwriter Julia Michaels in 2018 for several months. They broke up by the end of the year.
37. “I Like Me Better” first premiered in 2017 on Grey’s Anatomy.
38. In January 2020 Lauv was criticized for his music video “Tattoos Together” for its similarities to The 1975’s music video for “Sincerity Is Scary”. He issued an apology via text to member Healy. The apology was welcomed.
39. The album sold the equivalent of 31,000 copies during its first week of being released.
40. His height is 5 foot 8 inches (172 cm) tall.