Laena Myers (formerly known as Laena Geronimo, Laena Myers-Ionita and Laena M.I.) is a singer, songwriter, composer, violinist and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, CA. She studied classical violin for 15 years and has spent nearly two decades touring and recording internationally as a singer, songwriter and musician specializing in violin, bass, and guitar. Laena is also active as a songwriting teacher/mentor/producer through the non-profit organization Jail Guitar Doors USA.

Laena picked up violin in elementary school then honed her skills with several private tutors, eventually dedicated 8 years to studying under Russian violin virtuoso and opera singer Anna Libefort. She was a member of The Southern Oregon Youth Orchestra as well as the Junior Philharmonic Orchestra of California during her teen years. In 2005 she began playing in a busking band, performing purely improvised material on street corners in Hollywood as well as at The Hammer Museum as a part of their weekly Summer film series. Soon after she began touring as a member of Devon Williams’ band and subsequently joining other artists to perform live and track in the studio with ever-increasing regularity. Laena has since become the go-to violinist in L.A.’s underground art/rock scene, touring internationally and contributing to a multitude of genre spanning recordings and live performances- from John Frusciante’s 2012 album PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone- to 2020’s Bent Arcana jazz improvisation project created by John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees. As a violinist, Laena is sought out for her fluency in improvisation and her ability to quickly decipher melodies by-ear. Her unique strengths lie in her emotionally evocative tone and in her ability to intuitively supplement whomever she’s accompanying in a wide range of genres. She is also a proficient sight-reader and has considerable experience with playing in quartets, orchestras, symphonies, and other various configurations.

Many of these qualities carry over into Laena’s work as a multi-instrumentalist. She spent the entirety of her young adulthood cutting her teeth as a supportive player in countless live bands operating in the L.A. area- at times as many as five simultaneously- most consistently as a bass player until she formed her own band in 2011. She’s well known for her years of touring world-wide as the bass player/backing vocalist of Motown-inspired pop outfit The Like, as well as darkwave band Numb.er. She has also worked extensively over the years as a session vocalist, often in studios specializing in producing movie trailers and other commercial soundtracking. Her voice was featured in the official Netflix trailers for 2022’s  “Barbarians: Season 2”, as well as in 2023’s “The Deepest Breath”- featuring a track which she composed in her home studio for an album of trailer cues called “Tessellations”, produced by and available for sync licensing via Eternal Music Group.

Since 2011, Laena has devoted her main focus towards her own creative projects, beginning with Raw Geronimo- a six-piece band which she lead as sole songwriter and main vocalist (LP Dream Fever released by Neurotic Yell Records in 2013). In 2015 the band was renamed FEELS after it took on a distinctly more collaborative and punk ethos as a four-piece, with Laena adding guitar to her vocal duties (full-length albums FEELS, released by Castle Face Records in 2016, Post Earth, released by Wichita Recordings in 2019, and EP Subversive Reaction released by Deemed Printable in 2021). In 2018 she began sporadically performing original works as a solo artist, including a live set at Echo Park Rising Festival. Laena adopted the moniker L.M.I. for the project in 2019, amidst the production of LUV (Songs of Yesterday). The track “L.U.V.” off of the aforementioned album was used in advertising for fashion brand CELINE’s Spring 2020 campaign under that name. Leading up to the February 24th, 2024 release on Swiss label Taxi Gauche Records however, a name-change took place and henceforth the project has been known as Laena Myers. Since then, Laena completed a 19-show European / UK live tour as a duo in which she headlined shows in London, Berlin, and Lisbon, played a dozen support shows, and performed solo as a part of Rotterdam’s Motel Mozaique festival. She orchestrated an 11-piece band featuring strings and woodwinds to perform the album in it’s entirety at the record release show in Los Angeles, and in January 2025 she did a 4-date support tour of California, again as a duo. She is reportedly writing LP 2.

Studio Laena - Laena’s dedicated home studio - was built in the Spring of 2020 and since she has offered remote collaborations of all kinds: recording sessions, string arrangements, composition and soundtrack works. She became seriously invested in the soundtracking world in 2022- having been picked up by Eternal Music Group to record a 15-track album of Vocalese movie trailer cues for their composer-powered, music supervisor-curated branch Arkival- and has since become happily immersed in experimenting with the art of electronic sound design.

Musical connection is clearly a deep passion for Laena, but she is also intent on making the world a better place. Ever since completing a busy touring schedule with FEELS in the Fall of 2019 she has worked as a teaching artist for Jail Guitar Doors USA- a non-profit organization which focuses on rehabilitating individuals experiencing incarceration and empowering underserved youth through musical expression. She’s helped develop some of their youth programming, hosted countless workshops via AHJN (Arts for Healing and Justice Network) and YDD (Youth Development Diversion,) and has been a consistent presence at various sites across Los Angeles County, working to inspire students in low-income communities in addition to teens already being held within the criminal justice system to find their own voice and tell their story.