Laura Grimaldi is a singer of Mediterranean, and Italian folk and traditional music. She is also a Doumbek player, and plays the Italian traditional frame drum.

In Italy, Laura played music with several theater projects and folk music bands, including the multi-ethnic band Takadum Orchestra.

After moving from Italy to North Carolina, she became involved with the Paperhand Puppet Intervention Company both as a musician and as a puppeteer, and developed several music projects with musicians of the area: in 2015 she founded, alongside Robbie Link, the Malarazza band (Italian folk and traditional music), and collaborates with Jennifer Curtis and the Melodic Refuge Orchestra.