Album Notes

Leah White is from all over Texas. Having a father who is a Methodist Minister required her and her family to move to small towns all over the State and so many places are considered home and part of who she has become. She began singing and playing the piano as a small girl. However, it has always been a long-standing family tradition to play the acoustic/ electric guitar. Her Grandmother, June Horton, a singer and actress played guitar and piano and was her first vision of the well-rounded female entertainer. Leah’s Father, Dr. Jay Horton, picked it up in the 3rd Grade and has since become an accomplished singer, songwriter and lead guitarist. Christmas memories are of everyone in the family in the living room passing the guitar around singing songs. These influences inspired Leah in high school to pick up the guitar and demand her Father to teach her the very first song of choice- Stairway to Heaven. She began to write her first songs when she was 16 years old.

In college at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas she got away from performances in front of church congregations and played locally in her University town and places around in Austin. She soon frequented Georgetown’s Wildfire Café and this was her first opportunity to have a consistent gig with consistent pay. The University life also gave her opportunities to make money singing her originals inspired by ex-boyfriends and dorm room dramas at private parties and school functions. After college, she moved to Houston, Texas where she found consistent gigs at Little Woodrows on Sunday evenings playing covers and original songs. Other appearances have been at the Mucky Duck and Houston’s Engine Room.

Singing and songwriting, however, for very good reasons dramatically slowed down with the start of a family. Leah married Brian White in 2002 and had her two daughters, Lauren born in October 2003 and Nora born in December 2005. Leah had said of guitar playing and pregnancies, “I was taking blues guitar lessons before Lauren was born and my stomach got so big it made it almost impossible to play the guitar in mid-air!” Leah has also joked that, “Writing adult songs has been increasingly more difficult now that I don’t have ex-boyfriends to sing about.” Life’s events took a change in 2006 when Leah quit her full-time job and took a part-time position in Children’s Ministries at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Leah and her husband Brian had been volunteering to perform children’s music on Sunday morning and had been doing it for two years before Leah’s part-time status at the Church. It were these changes in her profession combined with an independent label that approached her to make an album with a children’s music theme that inspired Leah to produce her first album and embark on a career in children’s music.

Leah White’s music is folk rock and crosses into pop with some blues influence. The music is written and inspired from her life and for this reason it’s an intimate experience listening to her originals. The recording she has done thus far has been with her Producer/ Mixer of Cool Front Productions, Mike Griffith. Leah has said, “Mike has a rap and hip/ hop background that helps me break out of my rut of sounding like a folk artist on every song.” With album debut, Cake For Dinner, under Zazoo Records in 2007, Leah has promised herself that there is no end in site for her career in music and vows not to return to Corporate America to pursue this life-long dream. With this vision there is sure to be some interesting and creative music on the horizon that has less to do with ex-boyfriends and dorm room dramas and more to do with breastfeeding, carpooling and car seat dilemmas.

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