Lavender Diamond

Lavender Diamond
Becky Stark in Brussels (2006)
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, USA
Genres	Folk, country, pop, electronic
Years active	2003-present
Labels	Matador Records Rough Trade Records Paracadute
Members	Becky Stark Steve Gregoropoulos Ron Regé Jr. Jeffrey Rosenberg
Past members	Devon Williams

Lavender Diamond is an American, Los Angeles-based band, fronted by singer Becky Stark.

While living in Providence, Rhode Island, Stark began performing as Lavender Diamond in a play that she and puppeteer Xander Marro wrote, created and toured with called Birdsongs of the Bauharoque inspired by the work of artist Paul Laffoley. A self-produced CD of Stark's songs accompanied the tour in a hand-sewn, silkscreened sleeve. Lavender Diamond became a duo and eventually a four-piece band after Stark relocated to Los Angeles. With the help of local patrons Brian Kaneda and Josh Scuteri, Lavender Diamond self-released a four-song EP and performed at L.A.'s ArthurFest, at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, and at the CMJ New Music Seminar in New York City. In 2006 Lavender Diamond signed to Rough Trade Records in Europe, and Matador Records in the U.S., and toured and performed with The Decemberists for three weeks.

In 2007 the band released its first full-length album, Imagine Our Love and appeared on the Madonna tribute/charity record, Through the Wilderness. In 2009 they covered "Purple Rain" for SPIN Magazine's tribute to Prince's "Purple Rain".