People who strive to pursue a professional career in the music industry are often faced with a number of obstacles, and getting started is often the biggest challenge. Despite the number of tools available today, some artists still find it difficult to break out and make a name for themselves. However, while the dream can seem so far away, it isn’t impossible to obtain. Samantha Leon is an individual whose determination to succeed has been rewarded with a growing career in the music industry.
Born and raised in New York, Samantha Leon has lived nine lives in the city that gives a woman all the hard cries, fiery goodbyes, and turns of fortune she can take before Monday turns to Sunday. With an unwavering passion for music, Leon has dedicated her focus to polishing her craft. Yet, despite her intense passion and dedication, the aspiring artist still found it challenging to get started.
Although she was presented with a mountain to climb, Leon was determined to realize her goals. She developed a Kickstarter campaign in 2017 to launch her first self-titled album. Through the campaign, she was able to express herself in a way few artists do, unafraid of staring loss in the face.
As an artist, Samantha Leon has a voice that reaches into the listener’s ears and brings back all the sadness, anger, and lust within their rawest heartaches. Her vibratos have the ability to touch their hearts, leaving them to reminisce over the good times gone by. Music is where Samantha Leon lets her guard down and shares her soul with the audience so they can heal together.
The singer and songwriter pulls no punches with her lyricism. Each line is filled with a sense of life’s vagaries that are, without a doubt, filled by growing up in one of the world’s largest cities. Leon’s writing delves deep into her biography without risking obscurity. The singer also takes a powerhouse approach to her style while retaining a pop sound that casual listeners can enjoy. Leon wields her pen in a way that relays her most authentic, relatable, and harrowing life experiences into lyrics with purity, clarity, wonder, and a gut punch.
Samantha Leon’s songs are filled with surprising and poetic turns of phrase delivered with a sweet, sultry voice that touches listeners in the happiest or saddest parts of your soul. Regardless of wherever her listeners are, the artist can put them at the heart of every story she tells and offers something for people who have experienced deep emotion in their lives and felt forced to look at themselves in the mirror.
People who listen to her arrangements will realize that Leon spent years getting swept away by Santana’s and The Door’s psychedelics and grounded by the earthy tones of Loggins, Messina, and Amos Lee. New listeners will be able to recognize how many school mornings she spent belting out her teenage angst with Mariah Carey runs and Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane rock ballads.
The experiences and inspirations have culminated in the release of Samantha Leon’s new EP Mystic Lady, wherein listeners are taken on a journey with moments that are heart-wrenching yet catchy and moments that purge emotions through transcendent musical peaks.
