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ARTIST BIO/HISTORY

Leila pronounced (Lay-la) is a multi talented,multilingual artist/songwriter that has the capability of reaching many different cultures and crossing many musical genres. A truly international artist, she was born in Argentina to Spanish parents, grew up in Barcelona and Valencia Spain and later moved to ...Canada.

Embracing Soul/Latin rhythms with "Worldbeat" undertones in a style that is smooth, sultry and warm, Leila's sound is a soulful, seamless combination of passionate rhythms, percolating grooves, steamy, sensual vocals and romantic flamenco guitar.

Her independently released debut, “Of Life” with tracks recorded in both English and Spanish has resulted in a huge worldwide fan base! Recently voted best R&B artist on Cyberstation U.S.A. an online radio station with an audience of over 2 million listeners, Leila has also made the top of every online music site her music can be found on resulting in numerous features/interviews.

These include, the former MP3.com, (above numerous major label artists) and other sites as follows with:

*#1, #2 & #3 (R&B charts)
*#1, #2, #3, #4 (Soul charts)
*#1 on the Latin/Pop charts
*#1 in Easy Listening
*#1 on the World Fusion chart
*#2 in the love songs chart
*#16 on MP3.com Overall TOP
40 chart above 100,000 songs
*#1 on Soundclick
*#5 and #6 on Garageband
*top 5 R&B songs on Digizaar
*#6 out of top 10 artists on - Digizaar
*5 out of the top 10 best rated World/Latin songs- Digizaar
*# 1 on Sonic Garden

**Charts are compiled from: most requested, most streams, digital sales, best rated, most added to playlists and song page traffic/hits!**

TELEVISION PLACEMENTS:

Her music has been featured on “The Young And The Restless” “Days Of Our Lives” “All My Children” HBO’s “Soulfood” series, “90210” and several made for tv movies including “They Call Me Sir” starring Michael Clark Duncan of “The Green Mile”

LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:

She has opened up in concert for Latin Grammy winners Gilberto Santa Rosa, Gisele, Charlie Zaa and Tony Vega at Mohegan Sun Arena and had the opportunity to perform at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch after receiving an invitiation to perform in order to help raise money for The Make A Wish Foundation.

Leila has also performed at The Globe Theatre (Univeral Studios) Hollywood, honoring the legendary Jim Henson and with her exciting Afro/Latin/Funk band and 11 dancers Leila has also appeared at BB King Blues Club - Foxwoods Resort and Casino and Summerfest to packed audiences!

Leila was also recently chosen as one of only 40 up and coming writers invited to attend the "Oneness Songwriter Summit" with such industry greats as Narada Michael Walden, MOTOWN LEGEND Lamont Dozier and KC Porter (of Santana, Toni Braxton and Ricky Martin fame) The song entitled "Change" co-written by Leila, K.C. and Frankie Richard (who has written for Patti Labelle) was recently released on the Oneness compilation CD "Songs Of Hope And Unity," which features among others, Malik Yusef and Carl Thomas. Available at www.cdbaby.com/oneness

For more information and to hear Leila's songs log onto her official website www.leilasworld.com or visit www.cdbaby.com/leila