CHRISTINA PERRI Lovestrong Like A Leviathan

To Thine Own Self Be True.

Armed with a piano, a bevy of tattoos and an arsenal of jarring heart-on-her-sleeve observations centered on a sweet spot bruised by the treachery of love, 24-year old CHRISTINA PERRI flies headstrong into a heart-wrenching horizon previously illuminated by Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Anna Nalick, Alison Sudol, Marié Digby & Sara Bareilles.

How the hell does a broken heart
Get back together when it's torn apart
Teach itself to start
Beating again

As a struggling singer-songwriter trying to make ends meet as a waitress at the Melrose Cafe last July, Ms. Perri had a life-changing moment when she was asked to perform a song she had written, a defiant break-up anthem called “Jar of Hearts,” on the FOX show So You Think You Can Dance.

The clouds parted that night. "Jar of Hearts" went on to sell a million downloads. Fast forward to today as her debut album lovestrong. stormed on to the Billboard Top 200 at #4.

Perri lays herself bare on lovestrong., using her soaring, bittersweet voice and expressive piano playing to sketch out her stories. Some, like “Penguin” and “Arms,” are happy and hopeful, some, like “Bang Bang Bang” and “Mine,” are fun and playful, and others, like “The Lonely” and “Jar of Hearts,” are downright wrenching.

The common thread?

“They’re all songs I felt I needed to give away,” she says. “I have been writing songs since I was 15, so I reached into my arsenal and picked the ones I felt others should hear. My intention for my music is pretty simple: I want to make people feel less broken and alone.”

Perri sets lovestrong.’s hopeful tone with the second single “Arms,” a towering acoustic-guitar driven tune that builds to an urgent crescendo as its tale of the fight between the heart and the mind unfolds. “Your heart wants to be loved, but your head is telling you that you shouldn’t be with that person,” Perri says. “The song is about that struggle and finally giving in and letting love win.”



Produced by Joe Chiccareli (White Stripes, Tori Amos) and mixed by Michael Brauer (Coldplay, Regina Spektor), it didn’t really register how emotionally raw the album was going to be until Christina's 20th day in the recording studio.

“In the vocal booth, I had to go back to the place and time that made me feel so vulnerable and rip open old wounds to sing each song, sometimes two songs in a day,” she says. “Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.”



Her journey is a sublime elegy cloaking emotional emancipation...

Leaving One Lovestrong Like a Leviathan

CHRISTINA PERRI
LOVESTRONG.
1. Bluebird
2. Arms
3. Bang Bang Bang
4. Distance
5. Jar of Hearts
6. Mine
7. (Interlude)
8. Penguin
9. Miles
10. The Lonely
11. Sad Song
12. Tragedy
13. Backwards (bonus track)
14. Black + Blue (bonus track)
15. My Eyes (bonus track)



CHRISTINA PERRI
TOUR DATES
Jul 16 Las Vegas, NV - The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Jul 17 Scottsdale, AZ - Martini Ranch
Jul 18 Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress
Jul 20 Austin, TX - Antone's Nightclub
Jul 21 Dallas, TX - House of Blues (Cambridge Room)
Jul 22 Houston, TX - House of Blues (Bronze Peacock)
Jul 24 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
Jul 25 Atlanta, GA - The Loft @ Center Stage Atlanta
Jul 27 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
Jul 28 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun - Wolf Den
Jul 29 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of the Living Arts
Jul 30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
Aug 02 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
Aug 04 Toronto, ON - Opera House
Aug 07 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
Aug 09 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
Aug 11 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
Aug 13 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival