Sam Leigh-Brown
Sam Leigh-Brown (born January 8, 1969 in Manchester ) is a British singer who has lived in Germany since the 1990s.
Sam Leigh-Brown comes from a family of musicians. Her mother was a big band singer, her father a saxophonist . She left home in 1990 and moved to mainland Europe with a guitar . She finally came to Dortmund as a street musician via Spain and France . She then studied jazz singing in Arnhem , before spending many years in Cologne and on Düsseldorf's Kiefernstrasse .
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Larger became famous for Sam Leigh-Brown as a singer of the Düsseldorf Frank Popp Ensemble , which in 2003 with her texted Hip Teens Do not Wear Blue Jeans a summer hit landed. The song reached the top half of the music charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland .
Before that, Leigh-Brown had often appeared as a singer in the band Jazzkantine and the "jazzy multicultural formation" NOHA . She also worked for other artists and bands as a guest and studio singer, for example for the United Women's Orchestra and the Hessischer Rundfunk Big Band . In 2005 she temporarily withdrew from the stage for a baby break . In 2008 she was seen again with the Frank Popp Ensemble at the Lake Side Festival in Hergiswil on Lake Lucerne .
Sam Leigh-Brown later moved to Berlin with her daughter . She has meanwhile worked for Max Mutzke, among others, and toured with Moonbootica . In 2012 she took part in the second season of the singing casting show The Voice of Germany , where she reached the “Battle Round” in the Xavier Naidoos team .
Web links
- Sam Leigh-Brown at Wordpress
- Sam Leigh-Brown at Allmusic (English)
- Sam Leigh-Brown at Discogs (English)
- Sam Leigh-Brown at her former artist agency
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sam Leigh-Brown's own presentation on Facebook , accessed on September 12, 2014.
- ↑ a b Sam Leigh-Brown: "Xavier is the king of feelings." The-voice-of-germany.de, November 2, 2012, accessed on November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d Hans Hoff: Nomadin the music scene. In: The world . January 25, 2004, accessed November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Sam Leigh-Brown at her artist agency , accessed on September 12, 2014.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ^ Anna-Bianca Krause : NOHA - Origin: Czech Republic, Great Britain, Germany, Spain. (No longer available online.) Funkhauseuropa.de, June 11, 2007, archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Festival poster 2008 at lakesidefestival.ch, accessed on September 12, 2014.
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SURNAME | Leigh-Brown, Sam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester , England , UK |