Landon Pigg

Landon Pigg (born August 6, 1983) is an American actor and singer-songwriter.
Early life, education and childhood career.
Pigg was born in Nashville, Tennessee. When he was a child, his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and he and two of his siblings, Cari-Ann and Gabriel, sang commercial jingles with their father's direction. They all attended Grace Lutheran School in River Forest, Illinois.
He returned to Nashville as a teenager. where he attended high school at the Christ Presbyterian Academy. During Pigg's adolescence, his father offered him informal music education and encouraged his curiosity with music. He also credits his mother for nourishing his poetic side.
Invisible Children.
In November 2011 Landon uploaded a video to his YouTube account encouraging fans to donate to the cause. With a donation of twenty dollars or more to his music blog donation page, he entered users into a raffle. The three people that were chosen were contacted and asked their favorite song by Landon. Those three people got a personalized YouTube video of Landon thanking them for their donation with a special performance of their chosen song. David and Luca chose "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop," Paige chose "Take a Chance," and Karen chose "Little Darlin'." He was able to help contribute to the overall musician's donation count of 600,000 dollars. In addition to his fundraising competition, he played at the Nashville, Tennessee location on the "Break the Silence" tour for Invisible Children. It was held at Lipscomb University on Monday, April 25, 2011.
Career.
After his song "This Is The Way It Ends" was featured on the 6th-season finale of television-drama series "Grey's Anatomy" and subsequently went into national rotation, Pigg began a publicity tour in summer 2006 which found him booked on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Last Call with Carson Daly" television talk shows and other media outlets including a radio tour, as well as appearances in "Teen Vogue, Glamour" and "Performing Songwriter" magazines. In late August, Pigg appeared on the television program "The Early Show" where he played "Can't Let Go", the first track from his album, "LP" (2006).
His song "Great Companion" was played throughout several scenes of the "One Tree Hill" episode "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers" (2007).
Pigg has also performed on some television shows, including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". In 2007, his song "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" was featured in a De Beers commercial, and later on an AT&T telephone commercial.
In 2009, he appeared in A Fine Frenzy's video for the song "Happier", playing Alison Sudol's love interest.
Pigg co-wrote the song "Darling I Do" with Lucy Schwartz; it is the title track for the animated fantasy comedy film "Shrek Forever After" (2010).
He has been featured heavily on the television series "Parenthood". Pigg sang "Gardenia" on the Season 2 episode "The Booth Job" with Mae Whitman. He also appeared on the third-season episode of "Parenthood" entitled "Mr. Honesty".
He also played a character by the name of Oliver in "Whip It". He played the love interest of Ruthless/Bliss played by Elliot Page.
Touring.
The last full tour Landon went on was for his last album, "The Boy Who Never", and it went from March 2010 until June 2010. He toured with Madi Diaz, and the tour went through 15 states with 23 different venues. Since the tour in 2010, Landon opened for Lissie at Webster Hall, played on the Invisible Children "Break the Silence" tour, and had concerts at Loyola Marymount University and Knox College in 2011.
On June 29, 2014, Landon played his first live show in three years at the Red Clay Theatre in Duluth, GA. Landon's brother, Gabe, their father, Gary, and friends joined him onstage for several songs.
In November 2014, Landon and William Close released a cover of Joni Mitchell's song, "River. As of November 2014, no plans for a new album or tour have been announced yet. On March 8, 2019, Landon released a new single titled "Golden Hour".
Film.
Pigg made his feature-film debut in the comedy-drama film "Whip It" (2009), directed by Drew Barrymore, appearing as Oliver, the guitar-playing love interest of Elliot Page's character. He also played a small role as Peter in the 2012 movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower".