LATEST NEWS!
Dear FANS...After nearly 2 years of conceiving and many MONTHS of designing, painting and working (WHEW)...I have finally launched my merchandise line and I am so excited to offer you, this other piece of my heart! It was always a goal of mine to create uplifting, positive and empowering art, promoting peace, love and self esteem. My retail links below will take you to my OFFICIAL LEILASWORLD STORES (As of this writing) - Positive Art To Lift Hearts by Leilasworld!
Featuring various ART, GIFTS, MUGS, KED SNEAKERS, CANVAS TOTE BAGS, frameD PRINTS, decorative beautiful, CERAMIC ART TILES, and KEEPSAKE BOXES to name a few!
I am also planning the release of handmade limited edition handbags and jewelry, again promoting peace, love, unity, love for self, and the world around you and appreciation for world cultures. Thank you so much for your support and I hope that anything I offer, however small, however large, be it my music, art or gifts, will bring a smile, inspire, give you hope or somehow brighten your world if only for a moment.
In deepest grattitude, Leila
Positive Art To Lift Hearts by Leilasworld (Official Online Store Locations)
www.zazzle.com/leilasworld*
(Positive, Uplifting, Art, Gifts, and Global Art Home Decor such as canvas prints, eco-friendly canvas tote bags, original shoe art (sneakers) and beautiful ceramic mugs)
www.cafepress.com/leilasworld
(Positive, uplifting and empowering gifts and home decor such as gorgeous ceramic art tiles, framed prints, art tile coasters, tile keepsake boxes and mini buttons)
www.leilasworld.imagekind.com
(Positive Art To Lift Hearts - Fine Art Gallery featuring museum quality fine art canvas prints both framed and unframed, as well as greeting cards and prints)
REGARDING LIVE CONCERTS....Thank you all soooooo much for the love and support, for the e-mails and for the compliments, you truly do mean so much to me!! I wish I could meet every one of you in person, it has been so hard keeping up with everything so I thought I would post here to let you know there are MANY MANY videos of myself live in concert available on the web now! By all means if you love them take them, post them, rate them, enjoy them. We were very hard at work putting on our live shows and so I am blessed to be able to share them with you....the links to these videos are found on the left hand column.
ALSO NEW CD will be coming soon (Soul Ascension)and I can't wait for it to be finished! LOVE AND BLESSINGS to ALL of you! Leila
ARTIST BIO:
Leila pronounced (Lay-la) is a multi talented, multilingual artist/songwriter that has the capability of reaching many different cultures and crossing many musical genres. A truly international artist, she was born in Argentina to Spanish parents, grew up in Barcelona and Valencia Spain and later moved to Canada.
Embracing Soul, R&B and Latin rhythms with "World" undertones in a style that is smooth, sultry and warm, Leila's sound is a soulful, seamless combination of passionate rhythms, percolating grooves, steamy, sensual vocals and romantic flamenco guitar.
Her independently released debut, “Of Life” with tracks recorded in both English and Spanish has resulted in a huge worldwide fan base! Recently voted best R&B artist on Cyberstation U.S.A. an online radio station with an audience of over 2 million listeners, Leila has also made the
top of every online music site she can be found on resulting in numerous features/interviews.
These include, the late MP3.com, (above numerous major label artists) and other sites as follows with:
* #1, #2 & #3 on the R&B chart
* #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the Soul chart
* #1 on the Latin/Pop charts
* #1 in Spiritual/Easy Listening
* #1 on the World Fusion chart
* #2 in the pop/love songs chart
* #16 on MP3.com Overall TOP 40 chart above 100,000 songs in all genres
* #1 on Soundclick
* #5 and #6 on Garageband
* The top 5 best rated R&B songs - Digizaar
* 6 out of the top 10 in DIGITAL SALES - Digizaar
* 5 out of the top 10 best rated World/Latin songs - Digizaar
* # 1 on Sonic Garden
**Charts are compiled from: most requested, most streams, digital sales, best rated, most added to playlists and song page traffic/hits!**
TELEVISION PLACEMENTS:
Her music has been featured on “The Young And The Restless” “Days Of Our Lives” “All My Children” HBO’s “Soulfood” series, “90210” and several made for tv movies including “They Call Me Sir” starring Michael Clark Duncan of “The Green Mile”
LIVE PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
She has opened up in concert for Latin Grammy winners Gilberto Santa Rosa, Gisele, Charlie Zaa and Tony Vega at Mohegan Sun Arena and had the opportunity to perform at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch after receiving an invitiation to perform in order to help raise money for The Make A Wish Foundation.
Leila has also performed at The Globe Theatre (Univeral Studios) Hollywood, honoring the legendary Jim Henson and with her exciting Afro/Latin/Funk band and 11 dancers Leila has also appeared at BB King Blues Club - Foxwoods Resort and Casino and Summerfest 2006 to packed audiences!
Leila was also recently chosen as one of only 40 up and coming writers invited to attend the "Oneness Songwriter Summit" with such industry greats as Narada Michael Walden, MOTOWN LEGEND Lamont Dozier and KC Porter (of Santana, Toni Braxton and Ricky Martin fame) The song entitled "Change" co-written by Leila, K.C. and Frankie Richard (who has written for Patti Labelle) was recently released on the Oneness compilation CD entitled "Songs Of Hope And Unity," which features among others, Malik Yusef and Carl Thomas. Available at www.cdbaby.com/oneness
For more information and to hear Leila's songs log onto her official website www.leilasworld.com or visit www.cdbaby.com/leila
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