Lizzy McAlpine

About Lizzy McAlpine

Elizabeth Catherine McAlpine is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, McAlpine began gaining recognition by posting original songs and covers on the platforms SoundCloud and YouTube.

In 2020, she released her debut studio album, Give Me a Minute, to critical acclaim. Her second album, Five Seconds Flat (2022), cracked the Billboard Hot 100 with the TikTok-viral single "Ceilings". Following her 2023 signing with RCA Records, McAlpine announced her third studio album, Older, set for release on April 5, 2024, and supported by the lead single of the same name.

Lizzy McAlpine has written music since she was in 6th grade. She attended Lower Merion High School, where she sang in a co-ed a cappella group and did theater.

McAlpine studied songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston before leaving in her junior year to pursue music full-time. In April 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she started the Instagram BerkleeAtHome streaming concert series.

McAlpine's father passed away in mid-March 2020. She wrote the song "Headstones and Land Mines" about him on her first album, Give Me a Minute, and dedicated the song "chemtrails" to him on her second album, Five Seconds Flat.

Lizzy McAlpine has been labled mainly an indie pop and folk singer, her sound called bedroom pop, a "blend of jazz, pop, and R&B. On her debut album, Give Me a Minute (2020), she focused on folk and folk-pop styles. Her collaborators include Jacob Collier, Dodie, Tom Rosenthal, Ben Kessler, Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Finneas, and Thomas Headon.