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Artist - Jamie Leonhart

Track 1 - Take your time
Track 2 - Area
Track 3 - The truth about suffering

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFO: With her debut album, The Truth About Suffering, the sharp-witted chanteuse Jamie Leonhart enters the world of a new kind of diva, dynamic in emotional range and diverse in genre-crossing ability.

Jamie\\u2019s lithe and lyrical, three-and-a-half octave voice wraps around universe in which Kurt Weill and Laura Nyro meet Alice in Wonderland in a dimly-lit jazz club, inhabited by woodwinds, strings, vibraphone, and exotic instruments like the glockenspiel, mellotron and harmonium.

Born in New York City, the granddaughter of a cantor, and the youngest of three musically-curious children, Jamie began studying the violin at the age of three and singing soon after. Her inspiration to find her own voice began in her early teen years while singing in a vocal jazz ensemble, and at home foraging through her brother\\u2019s expansive eclectic record collection. After graduating with a degree in English Literature from Barnard College, Jamie continued her musical journey: through leading a \\u2018pop\\u2019 band, to singing as a soloist in the New York Metro Mass Gospel Choir to performing as a solo artist at prominent New York venues such as Rockwood Music Hall, the Living Room, and Joe\\u2019s Pub.

Jamie writes about many things: love, vulnerability, perspective, patience, and trust. \\u201cThese songs talk about the truth \\u2026 the truth about being uncomfortable, fitting in or not fitting in, and addressing and sometimes accepting flaws and faults,\\u201d Leonhart says. \\u201cA lot of the tunes explore that: the human condition in its most basic form. The more intimate and specific I am with my lyrics, the more I hear from people that a song really \\u2018spoke to them\\u2019 \\u2013 that I captured the sentiment that they were struggling to put to words, or felt alone in. So something very personal and intimate becomes universal.\\u201d

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