Alice Leon

Although not popular nationally, Alice Leon can be an expressive and talented singer/songwriter that has enjoyed a little regional following within the northeastern area of the USA. The Princeton, NJ, citizen provides led different rings on the way, but whether she was fronting the Alice Task or After Alice — or executing being a single musician — Leon provides favored an extremely melodic, tuneful, and hooky method of pop/rock and roll and adult substitute. Leon’s work continues to be consistently available, and her immediate or indirect affects have got ranged from Carly Simon, Carole Ruler, as well as the Beatles to Sheryl Crow, Edie Brickell & the brand new Bohemians, and Aimee Mann (who produced a name for herself as ‘Til Tuesday’s business lead singer within the ’80s before building an extraordinary catalog of single albums within the ’90s and 2000s). The Mann impact, however, can be melodic and harmonic instead of lyrical; while Mann provides frequently been cited as an integral shape in the “upset young female” college of vocalist/songwriters, Leon isn’t the sort of designer who lives and breathes angst and anger. Leon (who takes on acoustic guitar and keyboards) drawn some attention within the music business when she was the business lead vocalist for the music group After Alice, which made an appearance on Celebrity Search in 1990. After many live shows round the Northeastern Corridor, After Alice documented the album Audio the Security alarm in 1995 — plus some of the tunes from that Compact disc were noticed as vocals on CBS-TV’s long-running cleaning soap opera The Guiding Light (which began like a radio episode back 1937 before debuting on tv in 1952). Leon herself produced a visitor appearance on that cleaning soap during her After Alice times, playing a marriage singer and carrying out that which was The Guiding Light’s theme track at that time. But regardless of the publicity they received around the Guiding Light, After Alice split up in 1996 — and for some time, Leon performed like a single designer. Among her single gigs (in NY City’s Greenwich Town) caught the eye of the Sony Music rep, who launched her to maker John Kalodner. After Kalodner authorized her to some development cope with Sony, he organized on her behalf to record a demonstration in 1997; that demonstration, which Leon offers called Interactions in the bed room, was made by Dave “The Snake” Sabo (most widely known for his efforts towards the Los Angeles-based large metal/hard rock-band Skid Row) and Jackyl vocalist Jesse Dupree, but didn’t audio some thing like either Skid Row or Jackyl. Regrettably, Leon’s advancement cope with Sony dropped through due to commercial restructuring — a thing that many deserving performers have already been victimized by over time — and rather than continuing to execute being a single musician, Leon shaped the Alice Task in 1997. The next season, Leon co-produced the Alice Project’s debut record, The Big Amount, that was released on Leon’s very own label, Clown Dairy Records. Following Clown Milk produces with the Alice Task included their second record, Traveling With Female Berlin (a 2000 discharge), and their third record, Overnight Achievement (which arrived in 2002).