Leila pronounced (Lay-la) is a multilingual artist/songwriter whose sound b… Read Full Bio ↴Leila pronounced (Lay-la) is a multilingual artist/songwriter whose sound bridges many different cultures and crosses 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, R&B and Latin rhythms with "World" undertones her style has been described as smooth, sultry and warm, a soulful combination of passionate rhythms, sensual vocals and romantic flamenco guitar.

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

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

* #1, #2 & #3 on the R&B chart
* #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the Soul chart
* #1 on the Latin/Pop charts
* #1 in Spiritual/Easy Listening
* #1 on the World Fusion chart
* #2 in the pop/love songs chart
* #16 on MP3.com Overall TOP 40 chart above 100,000 songs in all genres
* #1 on Soundclick
* #5 and #6 on Garageband
* The top 5 best rated R&B songs - Digizaar
* 6 out of the top 10 in DIGITAL SALES - 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 entitled "Songs Of Hope And Unity," which features among others, Malik Yusef and Carl Thomas.

* OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION and OFFICIAL LEILASWORLD UPDATES/WEBSITES INCLUDE *

www.leilasworld.com

www.cdbaby.com/artist/leila

www.leila.bandcamp.com

www.zazzle.com/positiveartbyleila