"PHOEBE LEGERE is the FEMALE FRANK ZAPPA." Roman Kozack, Billboard Magazine
"An evocative blend of sexpot glamour, French insouciance, Bourbon St. bawdiness, and East Village hipness - she's got both body and soul. " Harper's Bazaar
"Gorgeous, blonde bombshell with a dynamite body, a magnificent voice, a wild sense of humor.(She is) an extremely intelligent Vassar graduate who can play four or five instruments and challenge every premise you might have about her as she zips through her set - her song selections are impeccably chosen. (She has) a dazzling voice - a superb singer miles above most of the rock stars of today .a comic mind.She turns excess and extravagance into an art form and anchors it with stunning simplicity. " New York Post
"Phoebe Legere is one of the most, inspired and talented creative-supernovas on the planet.One of those rare luminous souls. beautiful, wickedly funny, anointed with wisdom, and her music possesses Native American mystical and healing qualities. like Billie Holiday or Jimi Hendrix or Miles Davis or Sun Ra." Dimitri Monroe, Hits Magazine
"Phoebe Legere is the female Beethoven…" Joey Arias, Paper Magazine
"A charismatic showman who works the audience with the razor edged skill of a veteran comic poking, teasing, and caressing it with clever turns of phrase both musical and verbal.She plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four and a half octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing."
New York Times
"Legere restores, resists, deflects and reflects the caricature of women. With a gorgeous body, and enormous wit, she easily absorbs you into her unique brand of transcendence she is royalty in the clubs of Downtown NYC. " Lynne Lynn, Downtown Magazine
PHOEBE LEGERE
is a an American composer from a highly musical family. Legere was a musical prodigy who began playing piano at age 3.
Though Phoebe Leere is known for her groundbreaking electronic/world/punk/jazz/avant/classical fusions.she
is also a scholar of early piano jazz styles. Legere's style is derived from the blues piano traditions of Roosevelt Sykes, Professor Longhair, Little Brother Montgomery, Little Richard and Fats Domino. To this foundation she adds more than a touch of genuine Harlem stride.
Legere studied with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, enrolled in the NYU Graduate School of Jazz Studies, was signed to Sony Records, opened for David Bowie on his National Tour, received a NYSCA grant and led the house band at Louisiana Bar and Grill from 1994 – 1996. She then embarked on a 5 year tour of the Pacific Rim where she became a household name for her rocking, rollicking piano antics, spine tingling soul shouting soprano and down to earth blues scholarship. She also penned a hit single for pop star Kelly Chan.It's called Wei Yu and you can hear it at Itunes.
Legere has collaborated with Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter Thompson, Don Cherry, Brian Eno, Bo Bo Shaw, Ikue Morie, Nana Vascolenos, and Leo Abrahams among many others. She has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts and Charlie Rose and is in the hit Nickelodeon series, "The Naked Brothers Band" She played accordion on the CD, which was produced by Michael Wolfe.
Phoebe is MULTI-TALENTED. Her epic poems, which she sang with Morgan Powell and THE TONE ROAD RAMBLER BAND - "The Common Root of All Organisms" and
The Prairie are now available at ITUNES
