Phoebe Legere

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Phoebe Hemenway Legere is a New York City-based composer, interdisciplinary performer, and visual artist. She recently announced her candidacy for governor with the New York State Integrity Party.

1 Background
2 Discography
3 Plays
4 Filmography
5 External links

[edit] Background

Real name Phoebe Ledger. Posed for Playboy June 1988 edition. Many of her photos in various states of undress exist on various websites.

A dynamic performer on piano, accordion and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range and free-for-all approach to mixing jazz, cabaret, and rock, Legere initially earned renown as a songwriter with hundreds of songs in all genres, and was signed to Epic/Sony Records. Demonstrating Legere's mastery of diverse contemporary musical forms, in 1991 she had eight weeks of sold out shows at the The Ballroom in New York, where she performed original songs and blues, French Chansons and Native American chants; and then, opened up for David Bowie on a national tour.

During the past decade, Legere has increasingly focused her energy on music composition. Recently, Legere has been Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA department (2003), and at the University of Victoria Graduate School of Engineering and Music (2004). She presented her Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for music and art improvisation, in a lecture/performance at IRCAM's Resonances Aux Festival in Paris in 2004. Legere is head writer and host for Roulette TV, a NYC show about experimental art and music. She records for Einstein Records, a label known for experimental and adventurous music. Legere has also been a special educator in the New York City public schools for ten years. She is known to thousands of school children as “Songbundle, Teacher of Environmental Respect”.

[edit] Discography

Legere has released seven CDs of original music, and has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS's City Arts, and Charlie Rose.

[edit] Plays

2001 she received a NYSCA grant to write The Queen of New England, an experimental multimedia opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust.
Her musical, Hello Mrs. President, about the first African American woman president of the United States opened in New York.