Ingrid Lucia was born into a family of street musicians. Her father, musician David Pearlman — “Poppa Neutrino” — and her mother, artist Betsy Terrell, formed a family band in the early 1980s and called it the Flying Neutrinos, after the smallest things in the universe: “you couldn’t live without us.” The family traveled and played through Mexico, living in buses, boats, and tents. Ingrid started as a dancer, was singing in the band by age eight, and by eleven had joined the act as drummer, dancer, and singer — learning show business on the streets of the French Quarter, Mexico, Las Vegas, New York, and Paris.
When her parents stepped away in the early 1990s, Ingrid and her cousin, trombonist Todd Londagin, took over the Neutrinos. They moved the band’s headquarters to New York City, signed with a major label, and toured the world — rising with the 1990s retro-swing wave but swinging harder, with a jump-blues drive all their own. In New York they played with everyone up to and including Tony Bennett. Ingrid returned to New Orleans in 2001, and she performs locally, nationally, and internationally to this day — writing and recording original material for herself and for artists including Amanda Shaw and Glen David Andrews.
