Tiger La Flor

Born Tigerlily Cooley and raised in Seattle, Tiger La Flor is a Japanese-Korean American singer-songwriter whose music sits at the crossroads of modern pop and retro country. She started out playing in a grunge band with her sister and cousin, soundtracked by her dad's record collection of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Woody Guthrie on long summer drives through Eastern Washington to visit family in Walla Walla and Spokane. Those memories, paired with a lifelong love of Americana and the cinematic glow of old Hollywood, became the foundation of the solo project she now records out of Los Angeles.

Tiger La Flor released her debut EP See Me in Hell in 2024, a portrait of her first years navigating LA shot through with nods to James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. Her debut country-pop single "MOST WANTED MAN" followed that September, marking a deliberate move into Country Americana as an Asian American artist working in a genre where that representation has historically been sparse. She doubled down on that vision with her 2025 record Drugstore Cowgirl, a homesick travelogue across the Pacific Coast featuring "American Dreams" and the 1950s-inspired ballad "Lasso the Moon." Her latest single "Lucky Strike!" continues a body of work she describes as a collage: gathering small, easily-missed glimmers of poetry from everyday life and assembling them into something that feels both nostalgic and entirely her own.