Lynn Gunn

Lyndsey Gerd Gunnulfsen (born March 15, 1994), better known by her stage name **Lynn Gunn**, is an American singer-songwriter, best known for being frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist of pop-rock act PVRIS. Her musical career has spanned from 2009 until the present, and she has collaborated with multiple other artists and bands.

## Early Life

Raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Gunnulfsen was born to her parents Cathy and Peter, and has a brother, Nathaniel. She began to learn many instruments primarily by playing whatever she could find in her brother's bedroom while he was out.  According to herself, Gunn never went on a proper date growing up, and found herself attracted to gothic culture and the occult. Gunn revealed that she came out as a lesbian to her mother at 18 when she left a note under her pillow before she went on tour. She attended and graduated Lowell High School, and planned on attending MassArt before deciding to focus on her music career full-time.

## PVRIS

Gunn founded the band Operation Guillotine in 2009. Originally a metalcore band, Kyle Anthony was the lead vocalist of the band. The band released an early EP consisting of six songs, and the lineup had changed to Gunn as lead vocalist and guitarist. The band had also changed their name at this point to Paris and eventually Pvris (stylized in all caps as PVRIS), citing legal reasons.

Though a subconscious change, PVRIS shifted from a metalcore band and included more pop and electronic elements into their music, and incorporated that into their first album, White Noise. The band released further albums with Gunn as lead including All We Need of Heaven, All We Know of Hell, Use Me, and Evergreen. Gunn has stated that she has gained more creative control further into the band's lifespan, to the point where she is the only current full-time member after Brian McDonald became primarily a live performer starting in 2023. PVRIS is now primarily considered a solo product of Gunn.

In 2018, Gunn went through vocal issues to the point that she needed to relearn how to sing. She found out that there was nothing physically with her, but that she was just going through some vocal kinks and that it was mainly psychological.

Gunn has also contributed to multiple songs under the Epic Games label as PVRIS, such as Snakes for the show *Arcane* and Burn It All Down for the *League of Legends* Championships.

## Trivia

* She has won two Boston Music Awards for Vocalist of the Year in 2016 and 2017.
* Gunn suffers from ankylosing spondylitis.
* Gunn has stated that she is not a fan of the band's earliest songs and would not consider playing them live again.
* Gunn is 5'7".
* Gunn presented the Icon Award at the 2017 APMAs to Against Me! frontwoman and transgender icon Laura Jane Grace.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.kerrang.com/pvris-how-lynn-gunn-found-the-confidence-to-go-it-alone
2. ↑ https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3x33w/lynn-gunn-pvris-interview-2017-first-date
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQGqFPawBk
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151002075209/http://classicrock.teamrock.com/features/2014-10-20/new-blood-pvris
5. ↑ https://rocksound.tv/features/pvris-lynn-gunn-right-now-this-feels-like-my-most-authentic-and-expressive-voice
6. ↑ https://vmagazine.com/article/lynn-gunn-takes-control-unapologetically/#:~:text=LG%20About%20two%20years%20ago,autoimmune%20disease%20called%20ankylosing%20spondylitis.
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjZ\_q6HqKgY