Jamie Leonhart

New York City resident Jamie Leonhart is an introspective and risk-taking singer/songwriter whose dusky, melancholy and introspective yet ethereal work essentially falls into the adult alternative pop-rock category but has definitely been influenced by jazz, cabaret (including German cabaret), torch singing and traditional pre-rock pop. Leonhart has had a wide variety of direct or indirect influences, and they include Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro and the Beatles as well as Peggy Lee and the great German composer Kurt Weill. Leonhart, the granddaughter of a cantor, was ...