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Currently, Erica Leigh is writing new material and plans to record a new project in the near future! Please join her at the Wyoming County Fair, September 5, 2009 @ 7pm, where she will open for Calling Levi.

After winning a singing contest at the Wyoming County Fair in 2006, Erica Leigh was invited to open for country music recording star, Lorrie Morgan, at the fair in 2007. It was then that she met Morgan’s music director, Mark Oliverius. Erica Leigh went to Nashville to record a demo that Mark produced. Erica Leigh and Mark co-wrote two of the eight tracks on the demo, “Better Place (Tammi’s Song) and “Do You Still Love Me.” The new CD Love Is is now available at Cdbaby.

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Erica Leigh was born and raised in a rural community in northeastern Pennsylvania. She is the youngest born in a family of five children. She began exploring performance in her early childhood and still enjoys sharing the stage with fellow artists.

Erica trained as a dancer at the Ballet Theatre of Scranton, where she received a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1997, as a modern dance major. After graduation from high school, she ventured to New York City to study dance.

In 1998, she was the recipient of an Academic Presidential Scholarship to Marymount Manhattan College, as a modern dance major. She was featured in a restaged piece, "Psalm," originally performed by the Jose Limon Dance Co.

In 2002, Erica Leigh auditioned for and was accepted into the Philadelphia Dance Company’s (Philadanco) training program and their second company, D2. During this time, she also attended the Jean Madeline Aveda Institute in Philadelphia, which she graduated from in 2003. Her hair styling credits include, Mother Divine, an independent film, which was part of the Philadelphia film festival in 2003, and the tour of 42ND Street at the Miriam Theater.

Erica recently completed her B.A. in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing and Global Culture. As part of an Honors Thesis, she wrote a compilation of songs and poetry entitled, “Song and Dance,” a project centered around the five positions of classical ballet.