Lara is diving into the deep end of her gene pool, as the daughter of prolific singer/songwriters, Gary Filip and Jeani Filip. She has been making music since the ripe old age of 10, when she began singing on commercial jingles.

Lara attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts for vocal performance, where she met writing partner and keyboard player, Shannon Greene-Robb. Shannon went off to study music at Berklee and DePaul; while Lara began working professionally as a musical theatre performe...