Lucy Schwartz

Lucy Nicole Schwartz^[1] (born December 7, 1989) is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California.^[2] She received attention for a song she wrote and sang with Landon Pigg for the motion picture, Shrek Forever After, a romantic love song titled "Darling I Do".^[3]

Career

Schwartz graduated from Palisades Charter High School.^[4] She attended Occidental College, but dropped out after one semester to pursue her career in music.^[5]

In 2010, Schwartz released her sophomore album, Life in Letters.

In 2011, she had a duet with Aqualung on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and released the EP, "Keep Me". In December, Act As If released a Christmas single, "Sleighbells & Reindeer", featuring Schwartz with Brian Fennell of Barcelona.

Schwartz has toured with Lilith Fair,^[6] alongside Sarah McLachlan and Sheryl Crow, and opened for The Weepies, Brandi Carlile, The Civil Wars, Agnes Obel, Toad the Wet Sprocket, A Fine Frenzy, Joshua Radin, and The Belle Brigade.

Her songs have been featured in over a dozen television programs, including Grey's Anatomy and Army Wives. Schwartz wrote the international theme song for NBC's show, Parenthood, and she has written original songs for numerous films, including Twilight, Shrek Forever After, Mother and Child, Post Grad, Monte Carlo, Adam, and the Meg Ryan comedy, The Women.

Her single, "Boomerang", appeared in the closing credits of the fourth season finale of the television series Arrested Development, for which her father, David Schwartz, composed the soundtrack.^[5] She had previously performed the vocal recordings "Mr. F" and "For British Eyes Only" in a faux-English accent for the series.^[5]

Schwartz performed a minor role in the second season premiere of House of Lies, singing The Carpenters's song, "Close to You".^[7]

She has worked with CHOC Children's Hospital, Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, Songs of Love for Japan, and Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project.

Discography

Albums

• Winter in June (2007)
• Life in Letters (2010)
• Timekeeper (2013)

EPs

• Help Me! Help Me! (2010)
• Keep Me (2011)

Original songs in movie soundtracks

• "Feeling of Being" — What Maisie Knew (2012)
• "Cold" (with Aqualung) — The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (2011)
• "I Want The Sky" — Monte Carlo (2011)
• '"Paper Plane" — Center Stage 2: Turn it Up (2008)
• “Darling I Do” (with Landon Pigg) — Shrek Forever After (2010)
• “Little One” — Mother & Child (end title song) (2009)
• "Turn Back Around" — Post Grad (2009)
• "Gone Away" — Adam (2009)
• "Beautiful" — The Women (opening song) (2008)
• "Count On Me" — The Women (end title song) (2008)

TV theme songs

• “When We Were Young” — Parenthood (international theme song) (2010)
• Teen Wolf (2011)
• "Castle --- A Deadly Affair" last 1minute

Music videos

• "Graveyard" (choreographed by Sonya Tayeh)
• "Darling I Do" (with Landon Pigg) (for Shrek Forever After soundtrack)
• "Gravity"
• "Help Me! Help Me!"
• "Forever Young" (with John Doe) (for Parenthood soundtrack)
• "I Don't Know a Thing"

References

External links

• Lucy Schwartz website