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~ Divaz At Work ~ Ledisi ~ The Soul Truth According 2 Ledisi ~

Blessings to all my Black Diamond Ear Candy Community. I am thrilled to bring to you another Divaz @ Work Experience. Today, I would like to bless you with the song stylings of one of my very favorite songstresses Ledisi.

Ledisi Anibade Young, stage name Ledisi is a soul singer songwriter extraordinaire. Ledisi’s name is pronounced LE-duh-see, which is Yorubu for “to bring forth luck.” I must say she has been nothing but great musical luck to the soul scene since her arrival. Ledisi brings a great flavor of Neo-Soul, Jazz, R&B, Gospel, Blues and Lite Rock music. She writes smooth, soulful songs with messages of spiritual and emotional uplift that gently wash over the listener’s ear.

Ledisi was born in New Orleans but her family relocated to Oakland, Calif., where Ledisi followed her mother’s lead and became a singer. Growing up in a musical family where both her mother and step father performed in local bands, Ledisi began singing live at the age of eight with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra.

In 1990 she was nominated for a Shellie award for her performance in a production of “The Wiz” and sung vocals for a run with the cabaret group Beach Blanket Babylon, before studying piano and opera at the University of California Berkeley, in their Young Musicians Program.
After studying music she formed a jazz and hip-hop band called Anibade alongside fellow musicians Sundra Manning, Phoenix Normand, Cedrickke Dennis, Nelson Braxton, Wayne Braxton and Rob Rhodes. The band achieved a kind of cult-status in the San Francisco, U.S. Bay Area although failed to get signed to a major label.

Ledisi’s debut album “Soulsinger: The Revival” was released independently on her own label LeSun Records in 2000, and her follow-up 2002’s “Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue” won the singer the award for “Outstanding Jazz Album” at the California Music Awards.

In 2007 after a short hiatus in which she questioned whether she wanted to remain in the music industry, Ledisi signed with Verve Records and released her third studio album “Lost & Found”. The album saw a string of positive reviews, sold over 200,000 copies and earned her two Grammy nominations.

After touring with R&B singer Kem on his North American tour Ledisi’s released her album “Pieces of Me” in 2011 the release was her most commercially successful and received three Grammy Nominations for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for the title track. Ledisi’s released her danceable and upbeat seventh studio album entitled “The Truth” in March 2014. Ledisi has garnered nothing but high praise and respect from her contemporaries and listeners world wide.

Soooooo, today I would like to share with you all “The Soul Truth According 2 Ledisi” Black Diamond Style. Njoy and share the experience. Nuff Peace N Love.