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Leila Adu presses her luck with mysterious music video for "Fortuna" single
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Leila Adu caps European leg of Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker Tour with debut of “Fortuna" ..."Leila Adu is a Revelation..."—Robert Wyatt, legendary founder of Soft Machine and Bjork collaborator “Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided... Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be."—Purple Magazine London—Touching down in locales as varied as Los Angeles, London, Rome, Sicily and Berlin, ...
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Leila Adu leaves the assembly line for The "Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker" CD Release Tour
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London, United Kingdom—Winter is arching towards Spring with singer/keyboardist/composer Leila Adu touring the US and UK/Europe in support of her critically acclaimed new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." Released January 18th on Italy's Rai Trade/Tracce label, Leila's work on the album has been sited as “a revelation" (by legendary Soft Machine founder Robert Wyatt), “Alternative-Alternative" and “Joni Mitchell brimming with melanin." Leila Adu is ready to bring all those declarations home. Born in London of Ghanaian and New ...
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Leila Adu finds Harmony with the Voiceless In "Ode To the Unknown Factory Worker" Album Release
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Leila Adu celebrates global CD release on Rai Trade/Tracce, the Italian National Radio label New York, NY—Leila Adu reemerges to the international music scene on January 18th with her powerful new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." The 11 song CD is a raw musical travelogue of uncertainty and triumph in the exciting nomadic life of the popular New Zealand/Ghanaian singer-composer-multi-instrumentalist. Touring the globe solo and with band throughout 2009-2010 in support of her Steve Albini produced “Dark Joan" ...
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URB Alt Festival 2010 Declares That 5 is the Magic Number During NYC Summer with Muthawit, Faith, Jneiro Jarel, Twin Shadow, Leila Adu and More!
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Popular URB ALT Festival celebrates 5th Anniversary with a 2001: A Space Odyssey tribute featuring Jneiro Jarel at The Harlem School of the Arts; outdoors in Saint Nicholas Park with Faith, Twin Shadow and others; a Galapagos Artspace Miles Davis “Bitches Brew" tribute featuring URB ALT Orchestra; and a night of movies and music at 92Y Tribeca with Leila Adu and MuthaWit Orchestra
“URB ALT Festival features artists that are exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." - The Village ...
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Leila Adu Rediscovers New Zealand in Month-Long Homecoming Tour
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New Zealand - Singer/Composer/Performer Leila Adu proves that you can go home again with her first New Zealand tour in 5 years. Adu an artist of Ghanaian and British descent has produced three critically acclaimed albums, written for and sung with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, toured and received radio play around the globe. This upcoming tour that runs for a month beginning April 8 is Leila Adu's opportunity to give the homeland an upclose and personal experience in her ...
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Leila Adu Does It Again with the Don'ts (John Edwards & Steve Noble) in UK Video Premiere Show with Steve Beresford and de Santis
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"Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided...Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be." -- Purple Magazine London - Leila Adu, the London born songwriter/free improv singing sensation, comes home to the UK's cutting-edge hot spot, Vortex Jazz Bar. She will be working with her trio Leila Adu & the Don'ts on August, 3rd at 8pm in a special performance to ...
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Leila Adu Does It with the Don'ts in Special London Performance
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Leila Adu and Don'ts (John Edwards and Steve Noble) perform a very special London show at the Vortex Jazz Bar “Leila Adu's music is cryptic, edgy, oscillating between serious commentary and flippant experimentation." --Sheffield Telegraph London - After a triumphant performance at New York City's lovely Galapagos Art Space for URB ALT Get's Experienced, Jimi Hendrix Tribute, New Zealand raised and Italian based chanteuse Leila Adu lands in London at the cutting-edge hot spot, Vortex Jazz Bar. She will be ...
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URB ALT Gets Experienced with Jimi Hendrix Tribute Featuring Muthawit Orchestra, Leila Adu and Guests
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MuthaWit Orchestra, Leila Adu and special guests perform in celebration of the legacy of Jimi Hendrix.
“URB ALT features artists that are exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." --The Village Voice
NEW YORK, NY -- The URB ALT showcase of cutting edge multi- cultural music/film/visual/literary artists explores the musical discography of legendary rocker, Jimi Hendrix on his birthday Friday, November 27th. The night of alternative music presented at Galapagos Artspace in Dumbo features the avant-garde classical/blues vocal and piano ...
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