Lauren Alex Hooper

Lauren Alex Hooper is an alt-pop singersongwriter. With both a BA and MA in songwriting from The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, under the University of East London, she writes for her own artist project as well as for and with others. She has been releasing music under her own name since 2018. Her debut single, ‘Invisible,’ was released to raise awareness about mental health and all of the proceeds go to the charity, YoungMinds. Her debut EP, Honest, also revolved around the theme of mental health and one of the tracks, ‘Clarity,’ was chosen as BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey’s BBC Introducing Track of the Day. She’s performed at The Sallis Benney Theatre and The Corn Exchange in Brighton, The Bedford in Balham, and The Spice of Life and The Fiddler’s Elbow in London, as well as The Bluebird Café and The Listening Room in Nashville. She’s also performed with Oxfam, Amaze, and at every Disability Pride Brighton festival since its inception in 2016.

Academically, she has spoken at multiple conferences, including co-presenting at the ICMP Songwriting in Education Conference in 2017 (Bearing Witness Through Songwriting), as a panellist at the UUK Conference in 2020 (Autistic Students: Coping With Change), and presented her paper, Lyrical World Building: An Exploration of Taylor Swift’s Use of Intratextuality and Intertextuality, at Swift Conference 2021. This is soon to be published as part of a collection of research papers by Routledge.

She also keeps a blog, Finding Hope, about her experiences as physically disabled, neurodivergent woman, living with mental illness.

She’s currently working on new music to be released in late 2024.