Singer/songwriter Laura Roppé was raised in San Diego, California, avidly listening as a child to Carly Simon, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Phoebe Snow, Tom Petty, and the Bee Gees. Laura sang her way through high school musical productions, and eventually obtained a degree in Theatre Arts from UCLA. Following graduation from UCLA, she shocked many of her classmates and abandoned her artistic pursuits to follow a family tradition in law. A legal career, happy, marriage and motherhood followed. For years, Laura did not sing or pursue any artistic ventures. As she later described this period, her mind was stimulated and her heart was full, but her creative soul had shrunk "like a raisin."

Then, everything changed. After running her first marathon in 2006, Laura was so overcome by her accomplishment, she sat down that very day and wrote down a list of all the things she had always wanted to do but had not, due to a myriad of lame excuses. At the top of Laura's list: she wanted to sing in a band.

In 2006, Laura became the lead singer of cover band CoolBandLuke and began belting out cover tunes from artists as varied as Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Blondie, Lucinda Williams, and Kelly Clarkson. Laura was living her dream, but another dream soon came into sharp focus.

In 2007, Laura ran another marathon. This prompted her to set another goal: Record an album of her original songs within a year.

Consumed with her new obsession to give life to the songs in her head, she turned to her musical cousin, Matthew Embree of Rx Bandits, a musical genius and generous soul. In January 2008, in Matthew's garage studio, Laura and Matthew recorded a demo of two of Laura's songs: "Fly Fly Fly" and "Girl Like This." Laura was thrilled with the results, but the experience unexpectedly left her voracious for more. Soon, she was consumed with her music.

Laura contacted Grammy-nominated producer Steve Wetherbee of Golden Tracks Studio in Escondido, California. After hearing her demos, and listening to the rest of Laura's songs, Steve agreed to produce Laura's full-length debut album: "Girl Like This." In between tour dates, Matthew Embree came to the studio and recorded vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, and percussion on "Sing a Love Song" and "Free" for the album.

In May 2008, on a whim, Laura entered Kenny Chesney's Next Big Star competition sponsored by radio station New Country 95.7, and wound up winning runner up based on her song "Mama Needs A Girls Night Out." Due to exposure from the radio contest, women from all over the country have emailed Laura to say the song is their "anthem" and that it tells their story! Since then, Laura's music has slowly been gaining ground on internet and FM stations overseas (Spain, Germany, France, Belgium) and at home.