Ledisi is back with the title track and debut single off her new album, titled Pieces of Me. This is her first new release in two years since her critically acclaimed album Turn Me Loose under Verve Music Group. The new album, Pieces of Me, is the follow up to 2009′s Verve music album, Turn Me Loose, which garnered critical acclaim across the board from the New York Times to the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Times, who deemed the album “the work of someone determined to make a deeper impact.” Check out the song which was written by Ledisi, Claude Kelly and produced by Chuck Harmony, the song will be available on iTunes April 5th.
Ledisi Young (her given name meaning “to bring forth” in Nigerian) was born in the Big Easy, where she sang with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra when she was eight years old and spent many adolescent hours watching her mother perform with a local R&B band, often in a nearby park. A
Lost & Found, was released in 2007. Two of its singles — “Alright” and “In the Morning” — peaked within the Top 50 of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and a pair of Grammy nominations followed. 2008’s It’s Christmas featured updates of “Give Love on Christmas Day” and “What a Wonderful World.” The appropriately-titled Turn Me Loose, her hardest-hitting release, came the next year. The singer’s résumé also includes singing in choirs and studying opera and piano at the University of California, Berkeley’s Young Musicians Program for five years. She has worked on commercials and soundtracks for The Sci-Fi Channel and has appeared on the same stages with some of the world’s most acclaimed entertainers. Andrew Hamilton, Rovi
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