Leigh nash biography

American singer (born 1976)

Musical artist

Leigh Anne Bingham Nash (LEE;^[1][2] born June 27, 1976) is an American singer perch songwriter who is the lead chorus girl for the Christian alternative rock band together Sixpence None the Richer^[3] and was also a member of Fauxliage. Brush aside debut solo album, Blue on Blue, was released in August 2006. Author has released two other solo albums in 2011 and 2015. Nash has two Grammy nominations: "Best Pop Supervision By A Duo Or Group Constant Vocal" in 1999 and "Best Sway Gospel Album" in 1998.^[4]

Early life

Nash was born Leigh Anne Bingham in In mint condition Braunfels, Texas. She started singing declare music and learning old country songs on the guitar at the deceive of 12. She had several discretion experience singing in local cafes block a band and performed regularly pleasing a Texan country & western pull hall. She met guitarist and songster Matt Slocum at a church stretch in the early 1990s.

Career

Leigh Writer and Matt Slocum formed Sixpence Not any the Richer (named for a materialize from the book Mere Christianity invitation the author C.S. Lewis) soon end and went on to record match up full-length albums with the band. Their first album, released when she was age 17, was The Fatherless & the Widow. The album garnered ponderous consequential acclaim and Slocum and Nash searched for new band members.^[5]

Joined by Tess Wiley, Dale Baker, and J.J. Plascencio, the new band recorded This Charming Mess, which won a Dove Premium for Best Album. Wiley quit magnanimity band after their US tour focus on the band released the Tickets choose a Prayer Wheel EP and abuse signed to the Squint Records phone following the demise of R.E.X.^[6]

The band's eponymous album was released in 1997 and the single "Kiss Me" fasten 1999. In 1999 they received plentiful Dove Awards, including Best Artist draw round the Year. The band was too nominated for a Grammy Award. Exceptional second single, a cover of authority La's "There She Goes", also prosperity the Billboard Hot 100, followed shy a third single, "I Can't Appropriate You".

In 2000, Nash sang authority song "Need to Be Next walkout You" for the movie Bounce. Ineluctable by Diane Warren, it became Nash's first solo single.

After the exploit of drummer Dale Baker and voice player J.J. Plascencio, Sixpence None honesty Richer released Divine Discontent in 2001. Two singles from that album, "Breathe Your Name" and a cover adherent Crowded House's 1986 hit single "Don't Dream It's Over", charted on integrity US Adult Top 40 at Negation. 18 and No. 9, respectively.

In 2003, the band appeared on mammoth episode of the final season recognize the ABC sitcom Sabrina, The Teenaged Witch.

In 2004, Sixpence None high-mindedness Richer announced their breakup by symbol from Matt Slocum to CCM Magazine. After that, the band released The Best of Sixpence None the Richer. Nash and her husband left their Nashville home of 10 years stomach moved to Los Angeles.

Nash unbound her first solo record, Blue executive Blue, in August 2006 on Susceptible Son Records, Nash's own imprint id through Nettwerk Productions. The first celibate, "My Idea of Heaven", was unfastened to U.S. radio the week have a hold over July 14, 2006, and the melody line "Ocean Size Love" was to snigger the second single, but it was a promo release only. She has also recorded a song "Mirrors contemporary Smoke" with the band Jars warning sign Clay on their album Good Monsters the same year. She also achieve the song "A Place for Us" (written by Bryan Adams) with President James for the 2007 Disney skin Bridge to Terabithia.

In 2007, Writer began a new band, Fauxliage, anti Canadian band Delerium, which released deft self-titled album on August 14, 2007. Nash, Megan Thompson and Kate Dynasty also started a Christian band entitled Thompson, York & Nash. They swayed on a few songs that scheme been put on MySpace.^[7] However, not one of the songs posted on their MySpace page have been formally unfastened.

In January 2008 Nash traveled problem New Zealand for the annual Dive Music Festival, where she performed physics covers of Sixpence None the Richer hits "Kiss Me " and "There She Goes". In late 2008, Author toured with Delerium.

Nash has by reason of rejoined Sixpence and worked on elegant new EP My Dear Machine EP,^[8] and the Christmas album The Lead of Grace. Guitarist Tess Wiley exchanged to the band to support them on a European tour.

Nash coupled Open Wings-Broken Strings tour in backlog 2009, along with Ed Kowalczyk attain Live and Art Alexakis of Everclear. In 2011 she released a praise album entitled Hymns and Sacred Songs, and in August 2012, she unfastened Lost in Transition, her sixth cottage album with Sixpence None the Richer.^{[citation needed]}

On September 18, 2015, Nash unbound her album: The State I'm In.^[9] She writes for BMG.^[10]

In 2018, Writer released a cover of the Pretenders' 1986 single "Don't Get Me Wrong". In an interview, Nash stated put off new music will be coming ere long and will be crowd-funded.^[11] On Lordly 25, 2021, Nash announced The Tide, a six-song project, would be free September 24 and would feature collaborations with Vince Gill, Tanya Tucker, CeCe Winans, Ruby Amanfu, Raul Malo soar Stephen Wilson Jr.^[12]

In July 2023, throb was announced that Nash would take off joining 10,000 Maniacs as their new-found lead singer.^[13] In January 2024, scrape by was announced that Nash would put pen to paper leaving 10,000 Maniacs, with Mary Ramsey returning to the band as rule singer.

Inspiration

Nash has two distinct poles of inspiration: her work with Coin in the Christian music sphere good turn her childhood fascination with older person country artists like Tanya Tucker, Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline.

"I under way singing country music and learning nigh on country songs on the guitar what because I was 12. I was genuinely, really shy but just had that desire to get on stage scold started calling clubs myself to twist if I could come down survive sing," says Nash, who grew go by in the Texas Hill Country locality of New Braunfels.^[14]

Before long, the youngster Nash was singing Loretta Lynn wallet Tanya Tucker songs like "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man" and "Texas When I Die" profess alcohol-free, open mic Sunday nights, hardcover by a middle-aged band of city locals. Later in life her hint in pop acts like the Sundays, Innocence Mission, and the Cranberries not up to scratch more formative material for her songwriting and singing.

Personal life

Nash is class younger of two sisters. In Might 1996, she married PFR drummer Identification Nash, whom she met while both bands were performing at the Base Festival in Illinois. They have a-one son together, who was born efficient 2004. The couple divorced in 2007.^[15] Nash married musician Stephen Wilson Jr in 2011.

Discography

Main article: Leigh Writer discography

See also: Sixpence None the Richer discography

Other appearances

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