Louise Goffin (born March 23, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and producer of the 2011 album A Holiday Carole. Signed by record executive Lenny Waronker to DreamWorks in 1999, Goffin released Sometimes a Circle in 2002.
Early life
Goffin's parents are songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin. At the age of 14 she and her sister, Sherry, provided vocals for the song "Nightingale", on her mother Carole King's album Wrap Around Joy, which was released in 1974. She also sang backing vocals on Carole King's 1975 release Really Rosie and her 1977 release Simple Things. At Los Angeles' University High School's Interdisciplinary Program School (1975), she used the name Lakshme.
Career as recording artist
Goffin's debut public performance was opening for Jackson Browne at the Troubadour when she was 17 years old. Her debut album Kid Blue, produced by Danny Kortchmar, was released on Elektra Records in 1979.
In 2008, Goffin launched her own label Majority Of One Records to put out her first independent release, the eight-song Bad Little Animals. She has continued to release her recordings through Majority Of One, including Songs From The Mine, which features backing vocals from Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp on "Watching The Sky Turn Blue"; Appleonfire, a tribute EP to her late father; Her subsequent album Two Different Movies, released in 2020, was also co-produced by Dave Way and featured contributions from Billy Harvey, Van Dyke Parks, Benmont Tench, and Greg Leisz. The album cover art is a sketch of Louise drawn by Joni Mitchell.
Goffin sang on the theme song for the TV show Gilmore Girls, dueting with her mother on King's song "Where You Lead". but embraced its impact and appeared at the Gilmore Girls Fan Fest.
Other work
Goffin produced Carole King's first holiday record A Holiday Carole. Goffin co-wrote all three original songs "New Year's Day", "Christmas Paradise", and "Christmas In The Air". There is a jazz arrangement of a classic Chanukah prayer, co-arranged with musician and horn player Lee Curreri. The album was nominated for a Grammy.
Goffin has played with other known musicians as a side-woman. She appeared playing banjo with Bryan Ferry in his video "I Put a Spell on You". She went on to play guitar on tour with Tears for Fears in 1997.
Goffin leads songwriting masterclasses and mentors teen girls in songwriting in partnership with the organization WriteGirl.
Goffin is the creative director of The Goffin & King Foundation, which seeks to preserve her parents' legacy through empowering rising songwriters with educational opportunities.
- The Essential Louise Goffin, Volume 1 – 2016 – (Majority Of One)
- All These Hellos – 2018 – (Majority Of One)
- Two Different Movies – 2020 – (Majority Of One)
Other
- Carole King : A Holiday Carole – 2011 – (Concord) Co-writer/ Producer
Singles
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – 2016 – (Pink2Black)
- Fifth of July – 2017 – (Majority Of One)
- Revenge (ft. Skylar Gudasz) / Bird of Paradise – 2017 – (Majority Of One)
- Let Me in Again / A Fine Surprise – 2017 – (Majority Of One)
- New Year's Day (ft. Billy Valentine) – 2017 – (Majority Of One)
- Good Times Call – 2018 – (Majority Of One)
- All These Hellos (ft. Billy Harvey) – 2018 – (Majority Of One)
- Is It Too Late to Hold on Tight – 2018 – (Majority Of One)
- My Love Supreme – 2019 – (Majority Of One)
- Safe Place To Land – 2020 – (Majority Of One)
- Every Love Song – 2020 – (Majority Of One)
- Oh My God (ft. Van Dyke Parks) – 2020 – (Majority Of One)
- Ain't No Rest for the Wicked – 2020 – (Majority Of One)
- The Mistress of Killer Riley James – 2021 – (Majority Of One)