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In the following years
Leonhart performed with a variety of musicians, including The Real Live Show, a hip-hop group, and Wax Poetic. The Wax Poetic project combines electronica, trip hop, funk, and jazz. In 1998 she recorded an album with the Swiss Percussion Ensemble, a group of four classical
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Between 1996 and 2007 Leonhart was a lead back-up vocalist with Steely Dan, singing on three world tours and two albums. She performed again with Steely Dan in 2009 and 2011. She and the group's other female backing vocalists, Cindy
Mizelle and La Tanya Hall, are usually spotlighted on the song
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Leonhart returned to New York and in 1994 began singing in jazz clubs. That year she competed in the
Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition, coming in third. A critic said her choice of the songs "Nobody Else but Me" and
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on 10 July 1971, daughter of bassist and composer Jay
Leonhart and vocalist Donna Leonhart. She was exposed to music from a very early age, attending her father's gigs where she saw him accompany famous singers such as
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in Boston, Massachusetts, and has taught at the Jazz
Academy. Her goal as a teacher is to help vocal students gain an awareness of their instrument, their voice, avoid mistakes and learn better, freer vocal function.
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Leonhart has said that she does not consider herself a jazz singer, just a singer, and she has performed with ensembles covering a wide range of musical styles. She was deeply influenced by her father and by
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during the fall of 2004. Leonhart said, "Improvising with Al
Jarreau was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It opened me up to another level of creative awareness and expression".
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in New York City and for four years sang in the school's gospel choir. While at school, she performed in the TV show
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