JAMIE LEONHART 

Drawing comparisons to the likes of Norah Jones, Feist, Madeleine Peyroux and even Sarah Vaughan, the sharp-witted singer-songwriter Jamie Leonhart is an artist who is difficult to categorize, dynamic in emotional range and diverse in genre-crossing ability.

Jamie Leonhart was born in New York City, the granddaughter of a cantor and the youngest of three musically-curious children.  She began studying the violin at age three and singing soon after. Jamie’s inspiration to find her own voice began in her early teens while singing in a vocal jazz ensemble, and at home foraging through her older brother’s expansive and eclectic record collection.  After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Barnard College, Jamie continued her musical journey: leading bands, singing as a soloist with the New York Metro Mass Gospel Choir, performing in the 92nd St Y Lyrics & Lyricists series and as a solo artist at prominent New York venues such as Joe’s Pub.

Leonhart inhabits a hybrid of popular music that incorporates jazz, indie-pop, and quirky torch song cabaret.  Live, her audience becomes a collective co-conspirator as she intones her confessions, dissatisfactions and desires, supported by arrangements that move from somber to playfully bombastic in a moment. Leonhart’s approachable demeanor belies powerhouse vocals and her ability to deliver intricate compositions, which she does with depth and clarity.

As a songwriter, Jamie writes about vulnerability, patience, frustration, shifting perspectives and trust.  “A lot of my music explores the human condition in its most basic form.  Simple and to the core can be very effective.” Leonhart says. She also is a keen researcher, and examines the minutiae of a topic before anthropomorphizing it to inhabit her material.  Nature and natural occurrences play large roles in her creative work.

Jamie is employed as both a commercial voiceover artist and vocalist (Lifetime, Trulia, Kohl’s, Betty Crocker, Neutrogena brand, Tresemme, Johnson & Johnson) and also works as a background and session singer (Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, St.Vincent, Judy Kuhn, Paul Brill) Her debut record, the truth about suffering was released on Sunnyside Records. She has recently provided voices for films After Yang and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Jamie is a commissioned NEW YORK VOICES artist of The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, and created ESTUARY: an artist | mother story through this commission. Her second solo record, the illusion of blue, was released in 2022 and is available on all streaming platforms.

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management: info@jamieleonhart.com

voice over/studio work: mc@gotvocals.com

Photographer: Shervin Lainez

Hair/makeup: Laura Mitchell