Background
Leah Daniels grew up on a small farm in Uxbridge, Ontario.
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Her self-titled debut was released in November 2011 and her debut single was released in February 2012. She released her first music video titled "Suspicious Minds" on November 2, 2011 on CMT, Canada. Daniels was constantly surrounded by music and singing.
She began to write songs at age 12 preferring music that incorporated a country popular music sound.
Daniels began performing as a young girl in choirs and singing competitions. Her first exposure to country music came at age 10 singing at the CNE Open Country singing contest.
While attending school in Uxbridge, Ontario Leah began to perform in musicals. She performed roles as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", Sandy in "Grease" and Anita in "West Side Story".
Her first professional singing job was at a dinner theatre called, “First Rate (at Lloyd's) Capone’s Birthday”.
Soon after this at age 18 Leah was hired to work as a singer/dancer in the shows “School of Rock” and “Twistin’ to the Sixties” at a theme park called Canada’s Wonderland. Here Leah met and began to sing with the musicians who form her current band. In 2005 Daniels studied musical theatre at Sheridan College and the following year she studied voice at Humber College.
At this point in 2007 Leah left school to pursue her ambition of writing, recording and releasing her own original music
In 2008, she recorded and released her first 3 song Demo “Number Escape”. lieutenant was considered to be mostly popular/Rhythm & Blues but one song “Perfect World” stood out as almost having a county flavour.
The positive feedback to "Perfect World" inspired Leah to focus on country music writing at this point. In 2010, Daniels began to perform regularly as a country artist.
She followed this with a September 2010 appearance in the New Artist Showcase at the 2010 CCMA Music Week.
She began to build a motivated fan base on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube recording several music videos and posting them. Leah also began to write and record her debut Civil Defense with friend, musician and producer Sam Ellis. The recording was finished in mid-2011 and the first song/video, "Suspicious Minds" was released to CMT Canada and YouTube in November 2011."Suspicious Minds" was a remake of the Elvis Presley classic song of the same title.
Leah made her debut television appearance on March 3rd 2012 on the CTV Saskatchewan Telemiracle broadcast.
Leah Daniels released her second song/video, "One Night" to CMT Canada and YouTube June 8th 2012."
One song from her new Civil Defense, "Still" has been featured on the CMT (Canada) show “Unstable”. Other projects
Daniels performed with the tour act God Made Maine Funky during 2008 and 2009.
She still performs occasionally with them. Leah recorded on the group"s 4th album “Welcome to Nufunktonia”, released in 2009.
In 2010 she performed and toured with a "Hannah Montana" tribute show.
That same year she also appeared as a background vocalist for the Canadian Band, IllScarlett for their performance at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Membership
Sam is known as a member of the Hunter Hayes Band.
Personality
She is an independent recording artist.
