Lesley Pike

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Lesley Pike
Origin	Wingham, Ontario
Genre(s)	Piano pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter Multi-instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Vocals Piano Keyboard
Years active	2003 - present
Label(s)	MapleMusic Recordings
Website	[1]

Lesley Pike is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.

She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her most popular songs include "How I Wonder", "Mystery Man", "Dreaming Back to Life" and "Rather Be". Although regularly traveling to support her music, she currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

[edit] Biography

Lesley was born and raised in Wingham, Ontario, and later earned an honours bachelor degree in Classical Music from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

She independently released her first full length album, Night Visions, and supported it with constant touring. She garnered air-time on several southern Ontario radio stations as well as national exposure from CBC radio. During this period she shared the stage with several notable Canadian acts, including Pilot Speed, Turn Off the Stars and Stabilo.

Although the lyrics and atmosphere of the album seemed overwhelmingly dark, Pike has said that is not a true representation of who she is. "“On “Night Visions”, I basically wrote exactly what I felt without thinking twice about what people would take from it or the impressions they may form. And I really like that in a way, because it’s completely honest and raw, but I didn’t anticipate the flip side of it – that people might think I’m really quite depressed! I remember a neighbour leaving a note in my mailbox after he listened to the record that said something to the effect of 'it’s really beautiful…and I hope that you are okay’".^{http://www.lesleypike.com/html_bio.php}

In 2005 Pike released her follow up, "Dreaming Back to Life" which received play from an even wider variety of radio stations and exposed her to many new fans, and received many overwhelmingly positive reviews. ^{http://www.lesleypike.com/html_press.php}.

[edit] Future

Pike is currently recording a new album in Toronto with producer Bill Bell (Jason Mraz, Tom Cochrane, Shaye, Justin Nozuka). The album, entitled BLINK will be finished in late 2007, with release in early 2008. The album features Sean Ashby on guitars (Sarah McLachlan), Kevin Fox on cello (Shaye, Sarah Slean), Bill Bell (Tom Cochrane, Jason Mraz, Justin Nozuka), Kevin Breit on guitars (Norah Jones, Celine Dion), Davide Direnzo on Drums (Jacksoul, Diana Krall), and Pat Kilbride on bass.

[edit] Discography

Night Visions (2003) 1 - prelude 2 - how i wonder 3 - courageous 4 - sweet love 5 - suffocate 6 - fairytale land 7 - mystery man 8 - holding on 9 - worth the wait 10 - sad lullabye 11 - night visions

Dreaming Back to Life (2005) 1 - this fire 2 - rather be 3 - dreaming back to life 4 - suffocate 5 - sweet love 6 - try 7 - holding on 8 - mercy 9 - rather be (pri remix)

BLINK (coming in 2008)