Scott Leger
Seattle, Washington, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2015 | SELF
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ITUNES AIDS ARMSTRONG'S FOUNDATION
After learning of a friend's cancer diagnosis, Scott Leger of Austin-based band wideawake wrote "Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow." Now he is donating any proceeds from the song's sale to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Armstrong, who also hails from Austin, heard the song and went to iTunes, which is now featuring the tune. Furthermore, iTunes agreed to donate 100% of the proceeds from download sales of the song to Armstrong's foundation
- Billboard Magazine
If you were listening closely last night to the Tonight Show band, the music they were playing when Lance Armstrong walked out was a song called “Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow.”
The record is by Austin-based Wideawake, which has joined with Armstrong to raise funds for charity. Every time the song is downloaded from iTunes, the money goes to Lance’s cancer fund.
Wideawake won the Best Pop Band title at the South by Southwest music festival for three years in a row. That’s probably why they’re still unsigned: too successful! And you wonder why the record business is in the toilet. …
-Roger Friedman, Fox News
- Fox News
Discography
Bigger Than Ourselves-Wideawake
Not So Far Away-Wideawake
Maybe Tonight Maybe Tomorrow-Wideawake
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Scott Leger
Scott Leger was the principle songwriter and lead singer from the Austin based band Wideawake. Wideawake were Austin Music Awards winners in '04,'05,'06, including Best Rock Band, Best Pop Band, Best Songwriter, and Best Male Vocalist. The band's two releases, Bigger than Ourselves, and Not So Far Away have sold a combined 40,000 units independently
They have shared the stage with Switchfoot, Blue October, Third Eye Blind, Sister Hazel, Sheryl Crow Better than Ezra, Hootie and the Blowfish, Tears for Fears, Vertical Horizon and Gavin Degraw.
They debuted their new single "MAYBE TONIGHT, MAYBE TOMORROW" in May of 2006 at the Lance Armstrong Foundation Gala in Austin, Tx in front of a room full of VIP's including former President Bill Clinton. The track is now available at iTunes and all proceeds from the song will go to the LAF to help in the fight against cancer.
Singer/songwriter Leger recently won the ISC (International Songwriting Competition) Grand Prize for his song "Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow." The song was selected from almost 15,000 entries from 88 countries, by a panel of judges that included Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Macy Gray, and Robert Smith of "The Cure."
Scott’s songs have been heard in a variety of television and movie properties over the last two years including Scrubs, Grey’s Anatomy, GridIron Gang, Freedom Writers, Dawson’s Creek, The Ring. Tristan and Isolde, The Real World, Road Rules, Making the Band, Ghost Whisperer and the NBC Movie of the week, Critical Assembly.
The band is disbanded in early 2007 and Scott has recently launched his solo career. He is currently in the studio with CJ Eirikssen (Jacks Mannequin, U2) working on an acoustic album of his Wideawake favorites to be released in September of 2007 as well as a new full length album which will debut in early 2008.
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