Brooklyn singer Leah Siegel knows how to draw a crowd. At the Living Room on February 6, the room was filled beyond capacity with Leah-fans, old and new. The set started late (much to her apologies) as they waited for Steve Elliot, the guitarist, to arrive (he was, as she promised, well worth the wait). Leah is a rockstar, in the most unconventional, charming and humble way. She cradles the lyrics of her songs, and you can sense the emotion they illicit as they roll off her tongue. Everything about her music, in fact, is dictated by her emotion: from her volume, to her pitch to her tempo. It is music that moves you, both physically, as well as emotionally. Every note pulls you in closer, as her voice soars delicately to the top of her range, or she throws back her head and opens her mouth, releasing a sound so powerful and resonant that everything else seems to disappear.
Her band is no less talented or innovative. Especially Elliot, who, in one song, picked up a bow which he ran across the strings of his electric guitar during a particularly striking solo. That was unique in and of itself, but also because it is about the only thing that could steal attention away from Leah.
Check her out for yourself, before her rockstar-dom makes her shows too hard to see. It's already getting to be a tight squeeze at the Living Room...
Photo from a previous show at the Living Room; posted on artist's Myspace
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