Leiza Michaels is a versatile Entertainer, Singer, and Songwriter based in Florida whose dynamic style is at home at the Plaza Hotel and in Jazz haunts like Smoke and Blue Note. She has performed Jazz standards from The Great American Songbook in Europe and the US, and currently appears in Southern Florida. Her new album was co-written with Jay Carney of Starburst Records. Leiza’s songs express her love for the music of luminaries Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Irving Berlin, and her tune "Pure White Snow" pays homage to Billie Holiday.
All music and lyrics were co-written by Leiza Michaels and Jay Carney and their fabulous team: Dave Francis - Upright Bass, Recording Producer, backup vocals on Some Kinda Girl, Tommy Harden - Drums and Percussion, Catherine Marx - Keyboards, Kerry Marx - Electric Guitar, Jim Hoke - Saxophones and Chromatic Harmonica, Paul Mullen, Co-writer on Some Kinda Girl and overall collaborator, Marv Treutel, Recording Engineer. Nathaniel Jones, Final Mix/Mastering Engineer, Photography shot at Fountainview, WPB by Mary Stucchi, Stylist JK Feldman.
A Bossa Nova Vocal Jazz piece written in style of the standards similar to songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin & others of that era with lyrics about spousal abuse. Female Vocals, Jazz, Bossa Nova Jazz
a young lady raised in the 40's indoctrinated by her parents into believing that she'd never be allowed to meet & fall in love with the person of her dreams, but rather would be paired up in an "arranged marriage" by her parents. However, like being hit by a lightning bolt she meets and falls in luv, Female Vocals, Jazz, Lounge Jazz Vocals
It is well known that iconic blues singer Billy Holiday struggled with heroin addition. Leiza & Jay wrote this song as a tribute to Ms. Holiday's phenomenal performance skills even while working through her own personal trials and tribulations. Female Vocals, Blues, Blues (pending)
Written in the grand tradition of the musicals of the 1940s including an introduction to set the stage, this song is actually a a fusion of jazz/bossa/pop with lyrical content all about loyalty in a relationship. Female Vocals, Jazz, Bossa Nova Jazz
The originally written lyrics were all about a relationship, but literally on the night before recording, Leiza & Jay huddled together at our hotel in Nashville and radically changed the tenor and concept of the entire song to be about female independence. We're both pleased with the result. Female Vocals, Jazz, Swing Ensembles
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