Meet Lina Cooper

Lina Cooper is a young up and coming pop songwriter, artist, producer, a graduate of  Berklee College, a self-proclaimed Yellow Manic Pixie Dream Girl and a Ukrainian native currently residing in LA.

Lina was born in an industrial town in the Eastern part of Ukraine in 1999. She grew up in a house filled with music; her mother played the piano and liked to listen to jazz and classical music, her grandfather liked to listen to ABBA and Queen, and her father’s choice was rock-n-roll and blues. All these different genres influenced Lina, but her heart has always been leaning towards pop. She grew up watching music videos on MTV and buying Katy Perry’s and Taylor Swift’s CDs with her lunch money.

Lina’s musical talents began to emerge at a very young age when she would sit at the family piano and start creating her own melodies and then write poems to match. Noticing her unique and budding songwriting abilities, her family enrolled her in a music school at age 9. Lina began guitar lessons and learned both classical and contemporary guitar for a few years.

As a teenager, she was accepted into a music boarding school and majored in music theory while continuing to sing and hone her classical guitar skills. Around the age of 15, she and a classmate collaborated and started working on music together and released many original songs that they created in his small bedroom with the cheapest equipment they could afford and recorded it in Cubase. While remaining an “A” student at school, and a need to continue to fuel her growing musical desires, she started busking on the streets and performing her original songs at small events. 

At the young age of 17, Lina started a new exciting chapter when she was accepted to Berklee College of Music. She double majored in Contemporary Writing & Production and Songwriting with a minor in Orchestral Conducting. In junior year, while staying on the Dean’s list and working two jobs (a supervisor at Berklee Admissions Office and a hostess at Atlantic Fish), she also started releasing original music and performing with her band on the radio and local Boston area music venues including the Middle East, Plough and Stars, Cafe 939, Mad Music Mill, Article 24, ONCE Ballroom, Loretta’s Last Call, Landsdowne Pub, Midway Cafe, The Lilypad, and more.

Right before the pandemic started, Lina met one of her best friends Kofi Donkor with whom she wrote two of her singles (“This Time” and “What I Gave To You”). “This Time” ended up being placed on Spotify Editorial Playlists and becoming Lina’s first song getting signed by a publisher. That was her first break as a solo artist.

In September 2020 Lina moved to Los Angeles with two of her best friends and it’s been non-stop growth ever since. Lina is now consistently releasing music, performing all around the LA area, writing for sync, doing writing camps, working as an assistant engineer and even producing music videos and short films.

At the moment, Lina is releasing music independently. Her 2021 single “Should’ve Said It’ gained some attention on TikTok and created a community of fans. “Go, Girl!”, a song she co-wrote for Blaze Unlimited Sync Writing Camp got placed on a Hulu original show “Everything’s Trash”. Now she is performing all around LA, writing and producing for other artists. Lina’s songs have been played on radio, placed on Spotify editorial playlists and are getting more attention with every day.

Stay in touch, follow Lina on Instagram or TikTok (@lina_cooper) and look out for a new release.