Ledisi April 4, 2007

Ledisi (means to bring forth in Nigerian) was born in the Big Easy where she sang with New Orleans Symphony Orchestra when she was eight years old and spent many adolescent hours watching her mom perform with a local R&B band, often in a nearby park. After the family relocated to Oakland, CA, Ledisi followed her mom's lead and sang in a local band but left to form her own group and identity. She speant years as a successful independent artist, fusing R&B, hip-hop, urban, jazz, and funk in the same pot, and is now signed to Verve.

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