Video & Promotion: Leigh Nash, Christian Female Vocalist

Someone promoting Leigh Nash, the "former frontwoman" singer of Sixpence None the Richer ("Kiss Me", etc), recently took out an AmP BlogAd. Since I always screen my advertisters before accepting them, I visited her site, did a little research, and listened to her first single, My Idea of Heaven (embedded below).

I enjoyed the song very much, and exactly like this reviwer, a week later inextricably had the intense wish to hear it played again (which I am doing, right now). She has a delightful sound and theme to her music, and as I've learned more about her life and career I've also come to appreciate having her work promoted on AmP, so I decided to give her music a little extra plug.


Wikipedia has a good entry on her. On her myspace profile she "admits her newfound maternity" has been "a source of inspiration" for her music. This blog keeps up to date on news related to her and has a post with her upcoming tour dates. (NY, CT, VA & NC up next). Looks like she is touring with BNL.

Here is a video interview with her where she talks about being a mom and singing about her son. In a seperate interview at ChristianMusicPlanet, we find out where her old band, Sixpence, got their name:

Slocum [leader of Sixpence] derived the band name from an illustration in the book, "Mere Christianity," by C.S. Lewis. According to Slocum, the story is about a child who goes to his father and asks for a sixpence to buy his dad a present. So, the father really buys his own gift. Says Slocum in an interview with TV Guide Online, "The point is our abilities are given to us by God. All of our doing and creations are, in essence, giving back."

You can buy her latest CD ("Blue on Blue") here at Amazon, and here is the link to her official website. For those of you with iTunes, here is where you can digitally buy her Christmas album.

Now that's my idea of a singer.