Having started her career at the tender age of 3, when she started to play the piano, Leona, the Canadian born, Jamaican blooded singer/songwriter/actress, has developed a tremendous love for performing. At the age of 6, Leona established herself with her adoptive family from Toronto Canada in Oestgeest, the Netherlands. Here she enrolled at the Conservatory of Music at the age of 17. Although she cut het education short after het 3rd year, it had become quite obvious that showbiz is where she wants to be. After been sent to Hollywood for two months by her record compagny at the time she performed as suppoting act for Dru Hill in 1999 performing with Dutch R&B group Sat-R-Day in Rotterdam's Ahoy. She succeeded in being asked to accompany The Nits, Arling & Cameron and Junkie XL on their Tokyo tour in 2000. In 2001 she played the Nubian slave Aida in Joop van den Ende's hit musical AIDA. Which lead to more theatre shows such as o.a. Big Black & Beautiful and The Blues Brothers. Besides theatre she's been doing gigs, singing backing vocals for several renown Dutch recording artists.
This past year she sang a.o. with the Dutch rock group Kane, sang the opening for Lionel Richie's Symphonica in Rosso in the Gelredome, and is still touring Europe - as we speak - with Candy Dulfer.
You'll hear her voice on o.a. the CD's:
- A Little Less Conversation - Junkie XL
- Catch Up To My Step - Junkie XL feat. Solomon Burke
- The Original - BEEF
- This Will Be - in the feature movie 'Alles Is Liefde'
- WOOL - Nits
- Music For Imaginairy Films - Arling & Cameron
- We Are A & C - Arling & Cameron
- The Weekend Is For You - Sat-R-Day
- Het Draagbare Huis - Henk Hofstede
- What Is Love - Soundtrack for the movie Oesters van Nam Kee
- I'd Like To Teach The World.. - Berget Lewis feat. Leona
- Hi-Fi Underground - Arling & Cameron
- Ordinary Man - Danny Vera
- Kane de Kuip Live - Kane
- Lionel Richie Symphonica In Rosso - Lionel Richie
- and of course her own debut Top 20 hit single "Summer On Your Radio"
Never having lost track of her own goal she recorded her own CD, "The Official Bootleg Vol. 1", alongside drummer / producer Jonas Filtenborg. Fat Urban beats with a dash of Rock. Mix that with the soulfull voices of sultry vocalists.......That's Leona's recipe for her own style: Urban Rock!
Currently Leona is writing material for her new CD.
Photographers: Outrageousphotography.nl, Ron van Varik - popfotograaf.nl, Joost Doensen, Marcel G. van Leeuwen - gekzijnisgezond.nl
Just recorded a new version of a classic by The Jets, You Got It All... (one of my favorite songs of all times) Would love for you to come by to check it out or click the link on my profile to download it for free. Hope you enjoy my friend. :)
you have to watch the entire series!! SO FUNNY!!! I swear, my whole Saturday went by before I knew it, just watching one show after the other. I'm such a loser, I know, lol. Anyways, got any plans for next weekend? ... cuz i doooooooo! oooh, I think the pizza's here, I'm so freakin hungry right now, but it's all good. and that survey thing i was doing - THAT YOU WAS MAKING FUN OF ME FOR DOING!! - i just got paid! $76 for my first check, and since i got paid, I'm gonna do more of em, but I'm already at $184, so I'm loving it. They're so seriously stupid tho - the one I got last night was about my hair and stuff - like what kind of shampoo do I use, do I normally use conditioner ... for real, so easy. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. work4surveys .com l8r
UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. surveyblingbling .com ... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "woah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
Mackenzie and Ricky are getting married in May. How have you been doing? We are going Saturday and start looking at dresses. They didn't give me much notice but thats Mackenzie, right? LOL Oh hey! I already took the pics to be printed lol! Some of them were soo freakin hilarious! And i loved the picture of us ... it was sooo cute..so yah, guess what? 'member those surveys i was doing online? well, i got 2 checks so far! told ya it was real!! it aint like a ton of money, just like 175 so far, but its good coin to start with, right? you should really do it, now that i've gotten paid ..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. blingforwork .com ..Yeah I will probably see you soon =)
exactly. im going to see how much money i get for my b-day... which probably won't be much lol. and then i'll see where to go from there. hehhehe im excite! ethan's excited cuz we'll have the same phone. we're such dorks, i know; anyways, yeah i know exactly what u mean i need one too but yeah its the only way to move forward and hey if its true love let it go and if it comes back then ull know for sure!!! and OH I am so jealous that you got to go to Savannah! maybe i'll get to go soon too! i've been saving up my money that i've been getting from taking those survey things online. i'm up to $243 (heh, weird number, i know) so far, so i figure once i hit like a thousand, i'm goin on a va-ca, baby! do em, too! they're like soooo easy. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is: www. work4surveys .com hit me up!!
I JUST COMING THRU TO WISH U A BEAUTIFUL THURSDAY. ... AND IF U DONT KNOW, I WOULD LOVE SHARE THE NEWS THAT MY EP "ZERO TO PSYCHO" IS NOW UP ON ITUNES.
THANK U FOR UR TIME TO CHECK IT OUT!! LOVE, HEALTH & WEALTH
The next time anyone feels like GOD can't use them, just remember... Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly Joseph was abused Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Samson was a womanizer Rahab was a prostitute Jeremiah and Timothy were too young David had an affair and was a murderer Elijah was suicidal Isaiah preached naked Jonah ran from God Naomi was a widow Job went bankrupt Peter denied Christ The Disciples fell asleep while praying Martha worried about everything The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once Zaccheus was too small Paul was too religious Timothy had an ulcer. AND Lazarus was dead!
Now! No more excuses! God can use you to your full potential.
Besides you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.
Out now: Martijn Kuilema - Free To Do "A cool Electro House track with catchy vocals, an awesome leadsound and great beats." Available on you favourite download shop, like iTunes, djdownload, junodownload and many more.
