Elle King

American singer, songwriter, and actressTemplate:SHORTDESC:American singer, songwriter, and actress[[Category:**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Pagetype/config' not found.**s with short description]]
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* blues rock
* alternative country
 Occupation(s) | * Singer
* songwriter
 Instruments | * Vocals
* guitar
* bass

**Tanner Elle Schneider** (born July 3, 1989), better known by her stage name **Elle King**, is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. Her musical style encompasses country, soul, rock and blues.

In 2012, King released her debut EP, *The Elle King EP*, on RCA; one track from that EP, "Playing for Keeps", is the theme song for VH1's *Mob Wives Chicago* series.

She released her debut album, *Love Stuff* on February 17, 2015. The album produced the US top 10 single "Ex's & Oh's", which earned her two Grammy Award nominations. King has also toured with acts such as Of Monsters and Men, Train, James Bay, The Chicks, Heart, Joan Jett, Michael Kiwanuka and Miranda Lambert. She is the daughter of actor and comedian Rob Schneider and former model London King. She resides in Los Angeles.

## Early life

King was born on July 3, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to then-*Saturday Night Live* cast member Rob Schneider and London King, a former model. Her parents divorced and her mother remarried. She grew up living in southern Ohio, between Wellston and Columbus. When she was nine, her stepfather, Justin Tesa, gave her a record by all-female hard-rock band the Donnas; she views this as the pivotal moment when she decided she wanted to be a musician. Around this time, she also started listening to the Runaways and Blondie, and she made her acting debut alongside her father in the movie *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo*.

At the age of 13, King started playing guitar, immersing herself in the music of Otis Redding, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, AC/DC (she has the phrase "dirty deeds" tattooed on her biceps), and Earl Scruggs. Her interest in the country and bluegrass of Hank Williams and Earl Scruggs inspired her to learn the banjo. During her teenage years, she attended Buck's Rock camp in Connecticut, where she starred successfully in a number of musicals.

King spent her teenage years in New York City, but she has also lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon graduating from Elisabeth Irwin High School/Little Red School House, she moved to Philadelphia to matriculate at University of the Arts, studying painting and film. During these college years, she had an artistic epiphany seeing a live show where the band onstage used a banjo purely for accompaniment purposes, eschewing the bluegrass and country musical vocabulary traditionally associated with the instrument. King then began to use the banjo as a compositional tool. After college, she briefly lived in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, before moving back to New York where she currently resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

## Career

### 1999–2013: Career beginnings

In 1999, she debuted as an actress in her father's film *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo*. In 2005, at age 16, she started gigging around New York City, using a fake ID to gain entry to the local nightclubs. King immersed herself in the local songwriting scene and honed her performance skills by busking around town. King was then signed by newly appointed RCA Chairman Peter Edge. Her debut single "Good To Be A Man", was released on March 13, 2012, as a digital download and also as a 7" vinyl single. On June 12, 2012, the four-song *The Elle King EP* was released on RCA. The EP was recorded in New York and was produced by Andy Baldwin and Chris DeStefano, with King herself producing a track. The EP's lead track, "Playing for Keeps", was chosen as the theme song for VH1's *Mob Wives Chicago* series that premiered on June 10, 2012, on VH1.

King was spotlighted as an "Artist to Watch in 2012" by *Esquire Magazine* and made television appearances on *VH1 Big Morning Buzz Live* and the *Late Show with David Letterman*. King has played Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest Festival, as well as the Hammersmith Apollo. She has also taped her own PBS *Arts In Context* special for KLRU Austin at the Austin City Limits recording studio. She toured with Of Monsters and Men, Train and Michael Kiwanuka and has opened for Dashboard Confessional, Dropkick Murphys, Dry the River, James Bay and Ed Sheeran.Template:Citation needed

### 2014–present: *Love Stuff* and *Shake the Spirit*

In September 2014, King released "Ex's & Oh's", which serves as the lead single off her debut album. She released the album, *Love Stuff* on February 17, 2015. She performed "Ex's & Oh's" the next day on *The Today Show* to promote it. The song has reached number 10 on the *Billboard* Hot 100, becoming King's first top 10 single in the United States. "Ex's & Oh's" received two nominations at the 58th Grammy Awards: Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. In July 2015, King supported Modest Mouse on their UK tour. Afterwards, "Under the Influence" and "America's Sweetheart" were released as singles for rock radio and mainstream radio, respectively. In 2016, her single "Good Girls" featured on the *Ghostbusters* soundtrack and played over the movie's credits. In 2016, she teamed up with country singer Dierks Bentley for the song "Different for Girls". They performed this song at the 50th CMA Awards on November 2, 2016 where she and Bentley won the award for Musical Event of the Year.

On March 6, 2017, she premiered a new single "Wild Love" featuring a sparse electronic production, marking a slight departure from her previous style in music.

King released her second studio album, *Shake the Spirit*, on October 19, 2018, which she made with her band the Brethren.

On August 3, 2019, she was featured singing on a version of  Lindsey Stirling's "The Upside".

Throughout 2019, King served as a guest co-host on the MTV series *Catfish: The TV Show* opposite lead host Nev Schulman.

## Personal life

King started dating Andrew Ferguson in January 2016. The couple met in a hotel lobby in London and got engaged twelve days later on a sailing trip around the San Francisco Bay. They married on February 14, 2016 and confirmed their intent to divorce on May 15, 2017. On April 23, 2017, Ferguson was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence after allegedly grabbing King by the throat and threatening to kill her, though this charge was later dropped. King and Ferguson briefly reconciled in late 2017. As of October 2018, King is in a new relationship.

King has several tattoos, and worked at a tattoo company called East Side Ink.

## Discography

*Main article: Elle King discography*
**Studio albums**

* *Love Stuff* (2015)
* *Shake the Spirit* (2018)

## Concert tours

**Headlining**

* Love Stuff Tour (2015–present)
* Shake The Spirit Tour (April 2019 – present)

**Opening act**

* Dashboard Confessional – The Swiss Army Romance (2010)
* Of Monsters and Men – My Head Is an Animal Tour (2011)
* Train – California 37 Tour (2012)
* Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again Tour (2012)
* Dropkick Murphys – Signed and Sealed in Blood Tour (2013)
* Ed Sheeran – + Tour (2013)
* Dry the River – Alarms in the Heart Tour (2014)
* James Bay – Chaos and the Calm Tour (2015)
* Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves Tour (2015)
* Dixie Chicks – DCX MMXVI World Tour (2016)
* Miranda Lambert – Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour (2019)
* Joan Jett & Heart (band) – Love Alive Tour (2019)

## References

1. ↑ Empire, Kitty (October 10, 2015). "Elle King review – dirt, depth and attitude". https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/10/elle-king-live-review-exs-and-ohs-under-the-influence-good-to-be-a-man.
2. ↑ "Elle King is coming to Magic City Blues Festival 2016 Billings365". January 11, 2016. http://www.billings365.com/blog/01/11/elle-king-is-coming-to-magic-city-blues-festival/. Template:Dead link
3. ↑ "Song Premiere: Elle King - "Under the Influence"". http://www.nylon.com/articles/song-premiere-elle-king-under-the-influence.
4. ↑ Mazzarone, Mike (February 1, 2016). "Elle King, Nathaniel Rateliff & Andrew McMahon Play Heated Up Winter Jam". http://www.alternativenation.net/elle-king-nathaniel-rateliff-andrew-mcmahon-play-heated-up-winter-jam/.
5. ↑ "This rising rock star has a surprising father" (January 10, 2016).
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 Template:Cite magazine
7. ↑ Wallace, Jeff (July 10, 2016). "The top 10 best Elle King songs". *AXS*. https://www.axs.com/the-top-10-best-elle-king-songs-90679.
8. ↑ Tuccillo, Andrea (July 3, 2017). "Elle King posts hopeful message on her 28th birthday". *ABC News*. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/elle-king-posts-hopeful-message-28th-birthday/story?id=48425088.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Weinberg, Jen (August 5, 2012). "Elle King, the Voice Behind the Mob Wives Theme Song "Playing For Keeps" Talks to Us About True Blood, Pickle Backs, and Showgirls: Obsessed: Entertainment". http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2012/07/elle-king-the-voice-behind-the.html.
10. ↑ "Elle King – Biography". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773792/bio.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "'Catch of the Day' - Dierks Bentley ft Elle King". http://klaw.com/catch-of-the-day-dierks-bentley-ft-elle-king-different-for-girls-audio/.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "EP: Elle King's "The Elle King"". http://grungecake.com/ep-elle-kings-the-elle-king/articles/1196.
13. ↑ "2012's Artists to Watch" (in en). January 9, 2012. http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/g1029/2012-best-new-artists-6635111/?slide=2.
14. ↑ "'The Late Show with David Letterman' at the Ed Sullivan Theater - Arrivals". August 23, 2012. http://www.contactmusic.com/elle-king/pictures/3246644.
15. ↑ "In the Studio: Arts In Context Elle King 1/6 on KLRU". http://www.klru.org/blog/2012/01/in-the-studio-arts-in-context-elle-king-16/.
16. ↑ "Elle King performs 'Ex's and Oh's' on TODAY" (in en). http://www.today.com/video/today/56984067.
17. ↑ "Hot 100 Chart Moves: Missy Elliott's 'WTF' Debuts, With Leap Expected Next Week". http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6770106/hot-100-chart-moves-missy-elliotts-wtf-debuts-with-leap-expected.
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19. ↑ "Future Releases on Alternative Radio Stations". All Access Media Group. http://www.allaccess.com/alternative/future-releases.
20. ↑ "Hot/Modern/AC Future Releases". All Access Media Group. http://www.allaccess.com/hot-modern-ac/future-releases.
21. ↑ "Ghostbusters: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Available July 15th - RCA Records". Sony Music Entertainment. https://www.rcarecords.com/news/ghostbusters-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-available-july-15th/.
22. ↑ "Here Are All the 2016 CMA Awards Performances Ranked Worst to Best". http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/7564871/cma-awards-2016-performances-ranked.
23. ↑ "» Elle King Switches It Up On New Single "Wild Love"". http://www.idolator.com/7658623/elle-king-new-single-wild-love.
24. ↑ Leight, Elias (September 7, 2018). "Elle King Previews New LP With Weary Ballad 'Good Thing Gone'". *Rolling Stone*. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elle-king-good-thing-gone-shake-the-spirit-720515/.
25. ↑ Newman, Melinda (May 4, 2018). "Elle King Signs With Red Light Management". *Billboard*. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8454614/elle-king-signs-red-light-management.
26. ↑ "Lindsey Stirling Releases "The Upside" Ft. Elle King". August 2, 2019. https://musicmayhemmagazine.com/lindsey-stirling-releases-the-upside-ft-elle-king/.
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28. ↑ Raft, Caitlin (January 16, 2019). "'Catfish' Recap: Elle King Reveals Her Inner 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'", US Magazine.
29. ↑ "'Ex's & Oh's' Singer Elle King Engaged" (in en-US) (February 7, 2016).
30. ↑ "Elle King's Husband Arrested for Domestic Violence Before Split". https://www.tmz.com/2017/05/17/elle-king-husband-arrested-split-up/.
31. ↑ "Elle King Reveals Her Secret Marriage — and Split". http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/elle-king-reveals-her-secret-marriage-and-split-w482418.
32. ↑ "Elle King Reflects on Secret Marriage: 'We Were Two Young, Crazy People' — 'It Crashed & Burned'" (in en). https://people.com/music/elle-king-explains-secret-marriage-divorce/.
33. ↑ "Wild Child Elle King: 'Sometimes I Get Too Drunk, But I'm Myself'", *Billboard*.
34. ↑ Brow, Jason (November 25, 2015). "Elle King", *Hollywood Life*.
35. ↑ "Grammy Nominations 2016: See the Full List of Nominees". *Billboard*. Prometheus Global Media. December 7, 2015. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/6785974/grammy-nominations-2016-full-list.
36. ↑ Blistein, Jon (February 9, 2016). "Taylor Swift, the Weeknd Lead iHeartRadio Music Awards Noms". *Rolling Stone*. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/taylor-swift-the-weeknd-lead-iheartradio-music-awards-noms-20160209.
37. ↑ Eliahou, Maya (June 9, 2016). "Teen Choice Awards 2016--Captain America: Civil War Leads Second Wave of Nominations". E!. http://www.eonline.com/news/771305/teen-choice-awards-2016-captain-america-civil-war-leads-second-wave-of-nominations.
38. ↑ "Cmaworld.com". http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-awards/nominees/.
39. ↑ "Grammy Awards 2017: See the Full Winners List".
40. ↑ "ACM Awards 2017 Winners: Complete List". http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/7744527/acm-awards-2017-winners-list.
41. ↑ "CMT Music Awards 2017 Nominees Announced". http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/cmt-music-awards-2017-nominees-announced-w481409.
42. ↑ "Drake, The Chainsmokers Lead Nominees for the 2017 Billboard Music Awards". http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/7752631/billboard-music-awards-2017-nominations-full-list.
43. ↑ https://eu.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/09/01/cma-nominations-2020-list/3454012001/

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