While most kids are concerning themselves with Twilight or the latest games console at the age of 12, Leddra Chapman picked up
an acoustic guitar for the first time, sat down and began to write her first song. Since that day the young singer-songwriter has
never looked back. Realising she had a powerful knack of capturing her thought provoking emotions in her lyrics, Leddra continued
to write when the mood took her until she had enough quality songs together to get herself into local venues to play them live.
With a quintessentially English voice which is both pure and unique, it was ...read more
While most kids are concerning themselves with Twilight or the latest games console at the age of 12, Leddra Chapman picked up
an acoustic guitar for the first time, sat down and began to write her first song. Since that day the young singer-songwriter has
never looked back. Realising she had a powerful knack of capturing her thought provoking emotions in her lyrics, Leddra continued
to write when the mood took her until she had enough quality songs together to get herself into local venues to play them live.
With a quintessentially English voice which is both pure and unique, it wasn’t long before she was being asked to play venues all
over the country. At the same time Leddra spent as much time as possible teaching herself piano and keyboards as well as learning
to produce demo’s of her songs in a small home-studio her dad built in the family garage. Those early home demo’s became the
songs that started to create more and more interest from talent scouts in the music industry and as soon as people started to hear
about the buzz surrounding this Essex school-girl she was invited to play Britain’s premier new music showcase – Manchester’s In
The City Music Conference. Leddra played a quite beautiful thirty minute set to a packed out crowd at the Warchild Acoustic
Showcase and was subsequently chosen as a Best of ITC in Music Week magazine who described her as ‘filling a similar space to
early Alanis Morissette and Joni Mitchell’. « hide
