Wind picks up on Canada Day TD Mainstage, 2018.
"Over the striking piano lines, grandiose drums and swaying cello, singer and composer Leila Neverland weaves narrative lyrics within powerful vocals to pull audiences in and keep them engaged throughout the group’s performances." -Nathan Kunz, Revelstoke Review, 2018
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"[Leila Neverland] experiments with mind-numbing rhythms and a vocal range capable of grabbing even the most mundane of auditory palette." -J. Smith, Kelowna Capital News, 2012
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"You took me right where I wanted to be." -Joseph Sanchez, Indigenous Group of Seven, Santa Fe, 2018
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Who Is she?
Mountain Sound plays Ponderosa Fest, 2018.
“I’ve seen a lot of live shows come through here, and you were the best I’ve seen in a long time.”
–Hazel Bennett with The Dream Cafe, Feb 2019
“Potentially the most soulful performance ever.”
--Aaron DaSilva, Fireside Festival, 2019
Listen & Buy:
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"Hi everybody! I'm Leila Neverland, and this is what I do."
Introducing artist, mother, and West Coast singer-songwriter Leila Neverland. Her compositions are complex, her truths are simple, and her humongous voice is just that: HUGE.
She wails away while rockin’ the keys, the uke, and a vocal looper, and no matter who she's playing with, her performance is captivating. People even cry sometimes.
Catch her solo, with her trio Mountain Sound, her new duet w/Taylor van Zyl, and at a handful of storytelling, music, and movement performance workshops for children.
New Recordings and Videos Coming Soon!
Listen on Spotify:
–Hazel Bennett with The Dream Cafe, Feb 2019
“Potentially the most soulful performance ever.”
--Aaron DaSilva, Fireside Festival, 2019
Listen & Buy:
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
Spotify
"Hi everybody! I'm Leila Neverland, and this is what I do."
Introducing artist, mother, and West Coast singer-songwriter Leila Neverland. Her compositions are complex, her truths are simple, and her humongous voice is just that: HUGE.
She wails away while rockin’ the keys, the uke, and a vocal looper, and no matter who she's playing with, her performance is captivating. People even cry sometimes.
Catch her solo, with her trio Mountain Sound, her new duet w/Taylor van Zyl, and at a handful of storytelling, music, and movement performance workshops for children.
New Recordings and Videos Coming Soon!
Listen on Spotify:
Leila Neverland w/Mountain Sound
Released Apr 2018
Canadian Content
Copyright Leila Neverland
Where is she from?
Leila Neverland Shoot. Photo Credit: Jayni Paul
Leila Neverland (b. Leila Naderi: 1985) grew up snow-birding between the Florida Keys’ Big Pine Key, and East York in the City of Toronto.
When her father got diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease the family moved to Texas, whereupon she recorded her first solo piano and voice album at age 16, and then a second at 18).
At age 21, she received an undergraduate research grant from UBC and lived with the Berbers in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains under the UNDP's umbrella, where she interviewed youth about their perceptions of urbanization.
Soon after graduating with a B.A., she recorded her third and fourth back-to-back albums on acoustic guitar.
Then BOOM! Pregnancy. And BOOM! A year later, her Persian Baba (or Dad), who lived from oil lamps through email, died at age 65.
But to no avail, because in betwixt bringing new life and saying farewell to her Baba:
When her father got diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease the family moved to Texas, whereupon she recorded her first solo piano and voice album at age 16, and then a second at 18).
At age 21, she received an undergraduate research grant from UBC and lived with the Berbers in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains under the UNDP's umbrella, where she interviewed youth about their perceptions of urbanization.
Soon after graduating with a B.A., she recorded her third and fourth back-to-back albums on acoustic guitar.
Then BOOM! Pregnancy. And BOOM! A year later, her Persian Baba (or Dad), who lived from oil lamps through email, died at age 65.
But to no avail, because in betwixt bringing new life and saying farewell to her Baba:
- She released an original concept album as the live score to a theatre production called Transcending Orbit;
- She won 3rd Place at the PNE Star Showdown competition in Vancouver;
- She released a five track demo on Bandcamp, recorded by an employee of Bryan Adams' Vancouver studio;
- She initiated Kelowna's Pianos in the Parks' program;
- And started her first commercial trio just under two years ago, with a demo released on Spotify:
What Next?
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Contact: leilasings@gmail.com
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Contact: leilasings@gmail.com
Thank you for your support!!
Book Now.
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