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Ava Leigh recording Rollin' in Jamaica
London,
United Kingdom
http://www.myspace.com/avaleigh
Reggae / Ska / Pop
2008/10
01 Burnin’
02 Can’t Stay Away
03 La La La
04 Rush
05 Breathe
06 Map About The Boy
28 Jul 2008
Format: Single
Label: Virgin
07 Over The Bridge
08 Rudi Skank
09 Same Old Thing
10 Who Told You
11 After Tonight (Feat. Finley Quaye)
12 Rollin’
The lineup: Ava Leigh (vocals).
The background: Authentic, schmauthentic. This Chester-born Brit-reggae starlet may be a self-styled “hippie from the countryside”, but she’s recorded her debut album with veteran World’s Best Rhythm Section, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, as well as Future Cut, the duo behind Lily Allen’s Smile. White, schmite. She’s got serious credentials: Turned-On Underground, said debut LP, was partly produced at Harry J’s in Kingston, Jamaica, and she shares an A&R team with Jamiroquai (OK, fairly serious credentials). That said, her impressive, octave-straddling warble and slickly produced reggae-lite have more in common with the precocious pyrotechnics of Joss Stone and the high-register pseudo-soul of America’s R&B goddesses than they do the stark, desolate early-80s Lovers Rock of Carroll Thompson or Jean Adebambo (first single La La La could be Fergie or Pussycat Dolls). But it’s to the latter genre that she nails her colours most firmly. She even does a version of Louisa Marks’ lexically challenged Lovers classic Caught You In A Lie, as well as Matumbi’s After Tonight with reggae bad bwoy Finley Quaye.
Leigh, born Hayley Carline 21 years ago, got turned onto Jamaican roots, ska and dub by her mum, but it was a visit to last year’s Notting Hill Carnival that turned her pretty blonde head, although her voice has been earning plaudits since she was a kid, when she toured with her school choir as well as a local swing jazz band.
She won a talent contest in Spain during a family holiday, shrieking a tune by UK girl group Eternal. Her manager, co-owner of the IG nightclub in South London, introduced her to the quaking riddims of the Abu Shanti Sound System. Soon, she’d recorded Rollin’, with its “stoned, two in the morning feeling when you’re at an all-night party, hanging with your friends”. From her repertoire of easygoing skank, Breathe is eco-conscious, while Same Old Thing gets bitchy about routine. Then there’s the teen-luv bounce of Mad About the Boy. But don’t be fooled by the sweet vocals and gentle lilt of her music: Leigh calls Who Told You and La La La her “angry love songs”. A photogenic wannabe Pop Idol she is not. “Everyone’s always shocked, and wonders - how come a Chester girl sings reggae?” says Leigh, who, on nights off, raves to old skool techno at illegal warehouse parties in Wales. “I know I don’t look like a person who would sing reggae - until you hear it!”
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