Ginger Leigh Biography

GINGER'S STORY

GINGER LEIGH TURNS THE MOST TIMID AUDIENCES INTO SINGING, SWAYING LOVERS OF LIFE.

Ginger Leigh is a multi-tasking, self-taught, creative leader and entrepreneur. She has been a professional musician most of her life. She tours all over Europe, the US, and New Zealand.

Ginger Leigh was born a rocker. She grew up on the stage and hasn't stopped performing and writing since. Internationally-known, prolific, and hard-working, Ginger is a force in the music industry. People all over the world crave Ginger's stage style, which is energetic, funny, firey and frank. Her talent overflows and surpasses language barriers and culture.

Ginger Leigh's most recent release "Sugar in My Coffee" is receiving rave reviews. The Santa Fe Reporter says it best, " Leigh's that rare brand of artist who appeals to both lovers and fighters."

Ginger Leigh's career is full of great successes such as major distribution with S4 Records (Sony Italia), sponsorships with Advanced Micro Devices, live musical guest to Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Media, thousands of shows around the world, song-writer and vocalist awards, and a rapidly growing global fanbase with a wide-spread demographic. She began performing at the age of 9 in her first band.

Ginger's global fans continue to flock to her concerts with a vital passion for Ginger Leigh's songs and her stage presence.

Fans describe the show as 'empowering,' 'funny,' 'sexy,' and 'encouraging.' Ginger's music reaches all demographics; all ages, genders, and back-grounds. The thread is that Ginger Leigh makes you feel good about life.

She is 'indefatigable', as said the Austin Chronicle October 2005. And has easily made a name for herself, as her show is powerful, sexy, and funny. Her music is delicious, vivacious, and various.

Ginger Leigh has been compared to Annie Lennox, Ani diFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Elvis, Dave Matthews and Madonna.

Ginger Leigh, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas comes from the legendary musical and artistic family, The Cones. Ginger's great-grandfather is touted "the first photographer in San Antonio," shooting some of the city's and the nation's most notable subjects. He and his wife bore Jack Cones, Ginger's grandfather, who became a professional musician and photographer taking over the famous Cones Studio at the age of 12. Later in life he married Jane Henry, a national touring singer, fronting some of the nation's best Big Bands. She carried her own live radio show at the age of 16. She too was following her own father's footsteps, for he was nationally signed and a famous touring Dixieland musician. Jack and Jane Cones had three beautiful daughters later appropriately named "The Cones Sisters" who became famous in Central Texas and Nashville, Tennessee. From the oldest daughter, Jill, came Ginger Leigh who is now the 5th generation professional musician from the family, along with Nashville-based cousin and major-label musician/producer, Mickey Jack Cones.

Leigh didn't stay in the deep south, rather she travels all over the world basing her second home in Italy. Ginger Leigh is considered a Texas Music Ambassador to Italy, having taken not only herself, but Austin's most well-known and talented Patrice Pike, Trish Murphy, Wendy Colonna and more on tours in the "boot". Speaking Italian on stage and translating for her artists, Ginger practices her language skills by telling stories of Austin.

As one can imagine, Ginger Leigh is busy juggling her local and National concerts, writing and recording her music and working with other artists to advance their careers concurrent with her own.