Jon McLaughlin

• Genre: Adult Alternative

About

Born in 1982, Jon McLaughlin received musical training at Anderson University (in his hometown of Anderson, Ind.) and inked a major-label deal in 2006, but it was the placement of a song in the NBC hospital comedy Scrubs that broke open a career for the piano-playing songwriter. McLaughlin's work as a soundtrack artist continued to define him with subsequent placements in a string of films in the late 2000s, including "So Close," which was in Disney's live-action family movie Enchanted and got an Oscar nomination. His first major-label LP, OK Now, followed in 2008, a set of streamlined, piano-driven, soul-inflected pop.

- Nate Cavalieri