Janis Leahy

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On November 17th, Evelyn Leahy gave birth to a baby girl. Evelyn was an amazing singer, and because she toured all over the Orient in the 70s doing covers of Janis Joplin, she was inspired to name her baby girl after this infamous singer.



Janis Leahy was raised in a very musically inclined family, and was blessed with a talent herself. Growing up with musicians like Pat Benatar, and Cindy Lauper, Janis's first recorded performance was "Hell Is for Children" at four years old with a cheap tape recorder.



In 2003, she was introduced to Ali 'DUBFIRE' Shirazinia, of the Grammy-Award winning duo Deep Dish. After coming to the studio to meet with Ali and Sharam, and doing some vocal snippets in their vocal booth, they were inspired to create "Dub Shepherd." In January of 2005, she was given another track to potentially write and sing for them. Upon hearing the instrumental track, she heard similarities between Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and the instrumental track Ali had played her. She then found herself back in the studio with Ali and Sharam to lie out the vocals to the Deep Dish rendition of Dreams, and to everyone's pleasant surprise, the vocals were a perfect fit for the track. Soon thereafter, it landed in the hands of Miss Stevie Nicks herself, who set down a fresh set of vocals specifically for the dynamic duos rendition, which became a massive dance hit.



In 2004, she was introduced to DJ/Producer LANCE JORDAN of DUSK Recordings/NY Love. She took her first proper stab at writing, and "Twilight" was created. It was released in 2007 on DUSK recordings (with a remix from KAI of Yoshitoshi) and was supported by the likes of Deep Dish and Hector Romero. It is available for download on Beatport.com. Shortly thereafter, her collaboration with the incredibly talented DEAN COLEMAN yielded "Shoudda Been There," which was picked up by ARMADA Music and was featured on various Armada compilations (also available for download on Beatport.com, Amazon and iTunes).



Janis is now working on various projects with producers like the up and coming CHRISTOPHER MANIK of NY, and the talented LA producers QUIXOTIC and BRONTOSAURUS. So stay tuned as there's much more coming soon!