Local singer-songwriter has found her calling— with motherhood.
PUBLICITY PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Singer-songwriter Lauren Hoffman has long been a traveler — with trips to India, a burgeoning fan base in France, a strategic career move to Brooklyn, and now an album recorded in Israel. But all that’s changed now that she’s had a baby and come home.
“I’m really happy about being a mom and being in Charlottesville and being settled down,” Hoffman says. “There’s not much that will tempt me away from that.”
Hoffman’s own lineage involves music, as her father Ross taught Dave Matthews to write songs; and not long after Matthews shot to fame, Hoffman signed with Virgin Records for her 1997 debut Megiddo. While she toured to widespread critical acclaim, she eventually parted ways with the label after clashing with its publicity department. Subsequent work was dark and brooding; eventually she hit the road.
“I was about to turn thirty, I was here in C’ville renting a little place, and I felt that I could just stay here and thirty could turn into forty,” says the now 32-year-old musician. “I felt like I had one more adventure in me.”
Connections she made while traveling in India in turn led her to Israel, where she (more)
