Alu (musician)

{{Short description|Los Angeles based eclectic chanteuse/composer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2014}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| name = Alu

| origin = Los Angeles, California

| genre = Experimental pop, dark cabaret, trip hop, jazz

| occupation = Singer-songwriter, composer, musician

| years_active = 2004–present

| label = Alu Music, Lakeshore Records

}}

Alu is a Los Angeles–based eclectic chanteuse and composer who blends cabaret, goth, trip-hop and jazz into unique cinematic soundscapes.

Alu is featured on the soundtrack to Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train, Public Radio International, NPR and Echoes Radio. Her post-apocalyptic ballad "Last Lullaby" is included in the 2007 controversial action thriller "Juncture" by film director James Seale.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Alu's song "Circus Cosmos" was Echoes Radio Producer/Host John Diliberto's No. 1 Song of 2008 and her second CD "Lobotomy Sessions" made his Top Ten List of 2008 for Best Album. "Lobotomy Sessions" was also one of Echoes 25 Essential Albums of 2008 (Staff Picks and Listeners' Poll).{{cite web |url=http://www.campuscircle.com/review.cfm?r=6399 |title=Article |website=www.campuscircle.com}}

Alu was nominated for two 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards in the Female Singer Songwriter Category: Best Album ("Lobotomy Sessions") & Best Song ("Buzzin' in my Brain"). On October 12, 2009, Alu's album "Lobotomy Sessions" placed number 33 in the Top 200 CDs for 20 Years of Echoes Radio.{{Cite web |url=http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/?p=808 |title=MP3: Alu / "Martian Rendezvous" |access-date=February 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221040242/http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/?p=808 |archive-date=February 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}