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From Late Late night, to mid-afternoon on a Midwestern dock—
Fresh from an appearance a few days before on The Late Late Show with James Cordon, Swedish singer LÉON found herself along the banks of Lake Minnetonka, for a promotional radio appearance near restaurant 6Smith in suburban Wayzata.
The event was part of local station Cities 97’s Live at the Lake series, taking place over happy hour on Thursdays at local lakeside restaurants during the summer. After an opening piano set by Keri Noble (also the station’s morning drive time co-host), LÉON and her keyboardist took to the small stage under a canopy for a short five-song, twenty minute set.
“I’m so excited to be here—this is my first time in Minneapolis”, she beamed, dressed appropriately for the warm weather in short sleeve dark blouse and above-the-knee navy skirt. Singing in English more precise than most Americans, her relationship lyrics and slightly smoky voice charmed the happy-hour crowd. Her first recorded foray is the four-song Treasure EP (Columbia Records/Sony), with full-length to follow soon.
The statuesque 22-year old Swede began the afternoon with the EP’s title track, a video of which, has just debuted online. Lyrically, like Tove Lo, she gets sometimes brutally honest, not afraid to mix a curse word or two in to get her point across, as on the un-recorded and unreleased song, ‘For You’.
Mid-set, she tried her hand at a Fleetwood Mac cover, calling it “one of my favorite songs- I listened to this, like every day”, she said before admirably interpreting the Stevie Nicks vocals, for her own stripped version of the radio classic.
She wrapped her set, with initial single ‘Tired of Talking’, with she prefaced by explaining how nothing much was happening a year or so back in Stockholm, and so she was urged by her producer, Agrin Rahmani to release something on SoundCloud to stir interest. This was a notion she was initially against, but in the end relented, resulting in the song charting over twenty-nine million plays and counting, on Spotify.
Coming from a musical family (the daughter of a composer and a cello player) and estimating she composed her first song at age 8 or 9, it’s clear that LÉON has music in the blood. Her catchy single, radio-ready voice, and sturdy good looks, make her one to watch as her already finished debut album, gets released soon.
Fresh from an appearance a few days before on The Late Late Show with James Cordon, Swedish singer LÉON found herself along the banks of Lake Minnetonka, for a promotional radio appearance near restaurant 6Smith in suburban Wayzata.
The event was part of local station Cities 97’s Live at the Lake series, taking place over happy hour on Thursdays at local lakeside restaurants during the summer. After an opening piano set by Keri Noble (also the station’s morning drive time co-host), LÉON and her keyboardist took to the small stage under a canopy for a short five-song, twenty minute set.
“I’m so excited to be here—this is my first time in Minneapolis”, she beamed, dressed appropriately for the warm weather in short sleeve dark blouse and above-the-knee navy skirt. Singing in English more precise than most Americans, her relationship lyrics and slightly smoky voice charmed the happy-hour crowd. Her first recorded foray is the four-song Treasure EP (Columbia Records/Sony), with full-length to follow soon.
The statuesque 22-year old Swede began the afternoon with the EP’s title track, a video of which, has just debuted online. Lyrically, like Tove Lo, she gets sometimes brutally honest, not afraid to mix a curse word or two in to get her point across, as on the un-recorded and unreleased song, ‘For You’.
Mid-set, she tried her hand at a Fleetwood Mac cover, calling it “one of my favorite songs- I listened to this, like every day”, she said before admirably interpreting the Stevie Nicks vocals, for her own stripped version of the radio classic.
She wrapped her set, with initial single ‘Tired of Talking’, with she prefaced by explaining how nothing much was happening a year or so back in Stockholm, and so she was urged by her producer, Agrin Rahmani to release something on SoundCloud to stir interest. This was a notion she was initially against, but in the end relented, resulting in the song charting over twenty-nine million plays and counting, on Spotify.
Coming from a musical family (the daughter of a composer and a cello player) and estimating she composed her first song at age 8 or 9, it’s clear that LÉON has music in the blood. Her catchy single, radio-ready voice, and sturdy good looks, make her one to watch as her already finished debut album, gets released soon.
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LÉON at 6Smith Restaurant, Wayzata, MN (04 Aug 2016) |
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