Phoebe Legere

New York City studio with recent paintings. Légere the Artist is playing a cigar box guitar constructed from found materials. The artist is wearing a House of Legere hat, gloves and jacket with traditional Abenaki accessories. I’ve performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Symphony Hall, CBGB’s and on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, Public Television, Rai TV, French TV, and many other stations across Asia, Latin America and Canada. I was trained at Vassar College, SVA, DeCordova Museum, Larry Rivers, J.P. Legere and Hilary Knight. I studied Jazz with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. I studied film scoring with Ira Newborn and composition with Morton Subotnick and Dinu Gezzo. I learned wonderful things from improvising and collaborating with great artists like Hunter Thompson, Terry Southern, Barry Harris, Don Cherry, John Lewis, John Hartford, Rosa von Praunheim, Joni Mitchell, Gustavo Von Ha and many, many more. I love people. I had formative friendships with Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Beard, Hunter Thompson, Terry Southern, Ethyl Eichelberger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol. "A charismatic showman who works the audience with the razor edged skill of a veteran comic poking, teasing, and caressing it with clever turns of phrase both musical and verbal...She plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four and a half octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing. " New York Times "PHOEBE LEGERE is the female Frank Zappa..." Roman Kozack, Billboard "Gorgeous, blonde bombshell with a dynamite body, a magnificent voice, a wild sense of humor...(She is) an extremely intelligent Vassar graduate who can play four or five instruments and challenge every premise you might have about her as she zips through her set - her song selections are impeccably chosen. (She has) a dazzling voice - a superb singer miles above most of the rock stars of today ...a comic mind...She turns excess and extravagance into an art form and anchors it with stunning simplicity. " New York Post "PHOEBE LEGERE is the female Beethoven..." Joey Arias, Paper Magazine "Phoebe Legere is one of the most, inspired and talented creative-supernovas on the planet...One of those rare luminous souls... beautiful, wickedly funny, anointed with wisdom, and her music possesses Native American mystical and healing qualities. like Billie Holiday or Jimi Hendrix or Miles Davis or Sun Ra..." Dimitri Monroe, Hits Magazine "Everybody is saying PHOEBE LEGERE is the new Bobby Short..." Liz Smith, New York Daily News "Legere is an expressive and versatile singer whose voice ranges from a dark and earthy alto to a gorgeous dazzling high soprano.... she combines intelligent lyrics and a fusion of French musette, Cajun, pop, rock and jazz into a stew she calls, "roots alternative."-John Pitcher, Washington Post "Musically Phoebe is as tremendous at the grand piano as she is on guitar and accordion...Her voice is rich and warm, she draws her audience in...We feel as if we get to know her quickly, ending the evening as firm fans if not friends..." Sydney Morning Herald "Perfection's name is Phoebe. She is beautiful, talented and sexy. A great singer whose voice knows few limits...her band is excellent..." Dan Aquilante, New York Post" " Legere is clearly ready for mainstream success. Legere's fine, four-octave voice easily goes from horn like contralto to crystal soprano. There's a winsome sweetness...and an aching, longing...rare originality and vitality..." Variety " Phoebe Legere has the entire package. She's funny, smart and sexy. Her music is a flamboyant, original assortment of American pop, Cajun, jazz and rock.." Daily Trail, Vail, Colorado "Legere restores, resists, deflects and reflects the caricature of women. With a gorgeous body, and enormous wit, she easily absorbs you into her uniq