Leslie Sanazaro is an active performer, singer-songwriter and pianist. A degreed musician and international touring singer, she released her first EP Stars in the Attic, in 2006. Since then she has organized international solo tours, gained radio airplay in the US, Canada and Europe, played over 70 shows in Asia in 2008, and was nominated Best Singer-Songwriter in St. Louis by the Riverfront Times' 2009 Music Awards.

Influenced by pop, folk, jazz and modern day songwriters, some of Leslie's major influences include Carole King, Rickie Lee Jones, and jazz singers like Chet Baker and Nancy Wilson, among others. She tours regularly and has just released her newest EP, On Your Roof in September 2008.

Leslie has been reviewed for her musical and cause related efforts including articles about her environmental tour, The Green Light Tour 2007, which played 20 cities throughout the US and Canada in just over three weeks, teaming up with sponsors like the Sierra Club and Arbor Day Foundation, planting trees and raising awareness about global warming in each city.

Leslie Sanazaro also spent the early spring months of 2008 performing in Seoul, South Korea, nearly every night for months, performing solo on grand piano and upon returning home played a handful of festival shows that summer in the Northeastern United States.

Currently Leslie is re-releasing her first record Stars in the Attic, playing in and around her homebase of St. Louis and will be touring more extensively in the Fall 2010.

 

Leslie is originally from Cuba, Missouri and grew up with an interest in music. She was a saxophone player beginning at age 11, but always had an interest in singing. She briefly studied saxophone in college before switching to a vocal performance degree in 1995. After training classically Leslie went on to study jazz and developed a strong interest in vocal improvisation. She also began playing piano at that time in addition to beginning to write pop music on guitar. Slowly piano became the instrument of choice for her writing and better allowed for the kind of harmonic sound she was seeking.

Leslie has lived and performed in Philadelphia and St. Louis and has begun touring regularly. She plays mainly the midwest and east coast, and has also performed in Canada, Asia and Europe.

Currently Leslie's music is being featured on the Live365.com show 'Women of Substance', on KDHX (St. Louis), and on various satellite radio stations in Germany and Australia.

 

For more contact you may visit Leslie's Facebook, MySpace, ReverbNation or Twitter sites or check out her music for download through CdBaby, iTunes, or Rhapsody. You may also visit the Contact page here.