Kim Leaman, the outspoken singer songwriter of loves trials and tribulations has recorded her first album “Strange Venus†(not the recordings heard on this page) with award winning producer Kevin Hupp. Deep rooted in the up’s and downs of the unique songwriters music are suggestive lyrics of abandonment, anger, sadness, love, death and rebirth. Kim’s sultry voice makes passes at her audience while the swirling music surrounds you in its web.
Currently
performing in top showcases in New York City, Connecticut, and Massachusetts,
she has appeared throughout New England, and has shared the stage with Melanie
Safka
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Chris Trapper of The Push Stars
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, Patty Griffin
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and Brian Gallaway
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She also performed at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio for Jeff
Buckley and Nina Simone's induction.
Kim has
appeared as a guest and featured guest on radio stations in MA, CT, and NY and
her song “Wealth of Words†was the number one most listened to song on 91.7
WXCI. She has also appeared on 95.1 WRKI singing her dark and haunting song
“Beads of Water†and became an instant hit with listeners as they called in
asking where to purchase the album. Kim also has appeared on 91.3 WVKR Vassar
College.
REVIEW: "With a haunting, wistful voice and songs that unfold like wounds opening, the music of Kim Leaman from The Parting Gift has drawn comparisons to the late Jeff Buckley. Every musical genre these days seems to suffer from label-phobia. Pop music is equated with glamorized attitude, and alternative rock with bubbly trash, punk with tuneless boredom. But as the corporate music industry has chewed and vomited its share of all musical genres, indie music is returning to the forefront in all its original glory. The real, raw rock-based sounds that have defined every youth based musical declaration are back. Enter, The Parting Gift, a moody and emotionally tinged group headed by Kim Leaman. Evidenced by their powerful CD, the group alternates between grungy fuzzy guitar licks, slamming drums and dripping sonic movements, all held in place by Leaman's haunting, melodic voice."-Brita Brundage of the Fairfield County Weekly
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