Jamie Leonhart

NEW YORK citizen Jamie Leonhart can be an introspective and risk-taking singer/songwriter whose dusky, melancholy and introspective yet ethereal function essentially falls in to the adult alternative pop-rock category but has definitely been influenced by jazz, cabaret (including German cabaret), torch singing and traditional pre-rock pop. Leonhart has already established a multitude of immediate or indirect affects, and they consist of Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro as well as the Beatles in addition to Peggy Lee and the fantastic German composer Kurt Weill. Leonhart, the granddaughter of the cantor, was created Jamie Obstbaum (Leonhart is usually her wedded name) in NEW YORK in the first ’70s and was raised in Leonia, NJ. As an adolescent, she sang in an area jazz vocal ensemble–and as a adult, she relocated back to NEW YORK to wait Barnard University, a women’s liberal arts university that is associated with Columbia University or college and ‘s been around since 1889. Leonhart graduated having a level in English books, as well as the past due ’90s discovered her singing business lead for an NYC-based music group known as Methuselah Jones. But ultimately, she became a full-time solo designer. Leonhart (that has performed the violin, the glockenspiel, the harmonium along with other devices) released her 1st solo EP, Region, in 2002. At that time, she was still heading by Jamie Obstbaum, however in Sept 2003 (when she was 31), she wedded Michael Leonhart–a occupied trumpeter, guitarist and pianist who’s the child of jazz bassist Jay Leonhart and jazz vocalist Donna Leonhart and it has played with performers which range from jazz improvisers like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman and vocalist Meredith D’Ambrosio to some reunited Steely Dan. Jamie Leonhart adopted up her 1st EP with another self-released EP, Forwards Movement, in 2006; all six from the tunes on Forward Movement were subsequently noticed on Leonhart’s first full-length recording, THE REALITY About Suffering, that was created, arranged and combined by Michael Leonhart and premiered around the Sunnyside label in early 2008.