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Laura Marie Marano (born November 29, 1995) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally[3][4] as Ally Dawson. Marano was one of the five original classmates in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. She starred in Without a Trace for three seasons and also Back to You, in both instances playing the daughter of the main characters. Marano starred in the indie film A Sort of Homecoming. Marano also starred in the 2015 Disney Channel Original Movie Bad Hair Day along with Good Luck Charlie actress Leigh-Allyn Baker.
In 2015, she signed with Big Machine Records and released her debut single "Boombox" on March 11, 2016 and "La La" later that year. On October 5, 2018, Laura Marano released the single Me as an independent artist.
She composed her first song at the age of four. From the age of nine the girl was seriously engaged on the piano. On October 16, 2012, the premiere of the soundtrack for the cartoon “Fairies: The Mystery of the Winter Forest” with the song of Laura “Shine” took place. In February 2013, an Austin & Ally: Turn It Up album of soundtracks was released, in which Laura performed several tracks in addition to the main songs recorded by Ross Lynch. “Me and You” debuted on the Billboard Kid Digital Songs chart from position 13, before rising to the sixth line and spending eleven weeks there. “Redial” debuted from 19th place, rose to 18th and spent four weeks on the same chart. In the autumn of the same year, Laura recorded another duet with Ross - “I Love Christmas” for the special Christmas album “Holidays Unwrapped”. On November 25, the song was released as a promo single. In 2014, the Disney Channel Play It Loud collection included three songs performed by Laura, which were recorded for the Austin and Ellie series. March 31, 2015 released a mini-album "Austin & Ally: Take It from the Top" for which she recorded four songs.
In March 2015, Laura announced that she had signed a contract with the music label Big Machine Records. The debut single "Boombox" was released on March 11, 2016; April 4th video clip. In July 2016, the premiere of Laura’s video clip for the song “Miraculous” took place, which became a new opening for the second season of the animated series “LadyBag and Super-Cat”. The premiere of the single “La La” took place on August 25, and the premiere of the visual video took place on September 9. In January 2017, the Billboard edition reported that Laura Marano is no longer part of the Big Machine Records record label. In May 2017, Laura signed a contract with Warner Brothers.