LeaLea Jones

"New girl crush LeaLea Jones also preformed sporting some serious attitude and a set of lungs to match. Through a combination of her fresh, unique sound and her sassy personality she managed to capture audiences for the whole of her set. Described by radio veteran Ras Kwame as “one to watch”, she definitely impressed after performing a seven song set embellished with spontaneous scats and guitar solos." - Urban Development

LeaLea Jones has been a name who has been within music since she was a teenager, has released singles as a feature artist and has performed to some big names within music; politics; etc. So it baffles me that this artist still isn’t as well known, considering she deserves so much more success within music and has delivered music that just sounds so fresh and unique, something we definitely need in music at present, especially when everything is sounding so similar at the moment.

Below is a song you can listen to, which should definitely give you a little more insight into this very talented artist. - Music Blogger

Ones To Watch
Lealea Jones
Writing and performing with and in front of some of the biggest names in the world since a young age Lealea has even been approached to pen a song for Rhianna… definitely one to check out. Featuring brand new single ‘Cake’
- Playstation

Last year I discovered a very talented unsigned singer from Hackney, London called LeaLea Jones. It was a track called 'Oh My' which caught my attention at first because of its smoothed out, Neo Soul with a twist of independent Hip Hop that got me open. Since then I've been chatting with Lea to find out her future plans and she's hoping to drop her debut album sometime this year. Of course I'll be supporting her all the way as I believe in her talent! Below is the latest track she's sent me called 'Cake'. This track has a whole lot of potential. - BBC

I’ve been meaning to write something about LeaLea Jones since she more than impressed when warming up for Kinny way back when in February.

It wasn’t one specific thing about her which stood out, more a mixture of many things all coming together in a package that reminds me I should never give up on the UK Urban scene. Just as I was near total disillusionment with the UK R&B/Hip-Hop scene as it continued to turn into a caricature of itself then came the pleasant surprise of LeaLea Jones.

It was R&B; plain and simple. Good song-writing over solid beats with a sprinkling of hip-hop. No over-production, no needless 80s synths, no autotune, no ‘crossover’ attempt, no hyper-sexualisation, no contrived lyrics… it was just R&B; and I have not heard it as honest as that for a while. The UK has a fantastic array of female soul singers (some of the best in the world), however we seem to struggle when it comes to female R&B singers, rhythm and blues in that Aaliyah, Amerie, Mary J. mould. LeaLea Jones gave some real glimpses of that during her short set… (head over to her myspace and check out Oh My and Keep on Tryin’ both big tunes!).

She recorded a Maida Vale session the day after the Luminaire gig, which means she is getting some well deserved attention and she is one that is going to keep on getting better with time. I jhope as she develops the powers that be will let her continue to make pure and honest R&B music because the charts and the radio stations (and I) really need it.

En Vogue, Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child, Mary J., never made cross-over records. They crossed R&B over in to the mainstream by making great music, and I hopw LeaLea Jones can do the same… fingers crossed!

Soulside Funk - Waxin’ Lyrical

Members: LeaLea and her talented backing band.
Introduced by: BBC 1Xtra's Ras Kwame.
Sounds like: Sugar sweet soul vocals drizzled over funky beats, breaks and brass.
Performances for BBC Introducing: Maida Vale Weekender session, February 2010. - BBC