"Songwriter Laurece West's clear, sweet tone and improvisational jazz vocal style frolic through creatively reinterpreted pop, folk, & blues changes. She is a luminous channel for playful and poetic songs of personal transformation, spiritual celebration and love." - Maiya Greaves Laurece is a multi-genre songwriter. She has been in several bands as a songwriter, band leader and multi-instrumentalist. She writes with piano, bass, and voice and plays flute. She spent 20 years in NYC learning her craft and performing with fabulous rock, blues, latin and jazz musicians including Jack Silverman, Ricky Quinones, Johnny Boots and Geoff Gersh. In NC, Laurece played with jazz geniuses Kevin Van Sant, Doug Largent, Beverly Botsford (co-writers of Jasmine) and Brevan Hampden. Grateful, she listed the players on each song. Laurece co-wrote Planets Collide & You Look Good with Bill Bihler, I Love my Pets with Terry McCarthy, and Essence of Love with Geoff Gersh and Seth Goldberg - all the rest in partnership with divine inspiration. Laurece is from a family with four generations of professional musicians: 40's Big Band, 50's Army Band, recording engineers to A List artists from the 80's to right now, band leaders and 2 Grammy winners. She produces and co-produces. Laurece has played for many years with her "voice as a carrier wave" (a term she coined.) Since Essence of Love (2013), she's added spiritual, healing and love energy into her voice. Allow yourself to feel and enjoy!