Larissa

Larissa spent the first year and a half of her life on a tour bus. Her father, Leon Lundstrom, was a drummer for his brother, Lowell Lundstrom’s band. At the age of one and half, her father went back to farm in South Dakota with her grandfather. Larissa’s earliest memories are on that farm in South Dakota. She used to ride around in the tractor with her dad listening to George Strait… this is where she first fell in love with Country music. She also spent much of her childhood in Wisconsin with her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather was a horse trader and used to have rodeos on his ranch there. She was born with country and music in her blood. Larissa graduated from high school and decided to go to school for music performance. She graduated from North Central University in Minneapolis, MN. Larissa was planning on heading to Nashville to pursue her music career, but she was side-tracked by meeting her now ex-husband that very summer. They were married soon after. Then in June of 2009, she discovered he was having an affair. She tried to stand for her marriage and was willing to work things out, but he did not want to work on the marriage. She was completely devastated and didn’t want to live anymore. With the support of her friends and family and most importantly her faith in God, she made it through. Larissa told God if He brought her through she would shout it from the rooftops that YES, you can make it through an affair and YES, there is still life to be lived after it! Larissa began writing songs for this album in the fall of 2009 during the midst of her hurt and then continued to write through her recovery. The album was written with the design of bringing people through the despair and devastation of a loss to the hope and peace of life and a future. In the spring of 2011, Larissa fulfilled one of her life-long dreams to record in Nashville. The album was released 11/11/11. She is so excited to have her final product, and she prays that it brings people the hope and peace that God has given her.