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Leela James is a Los Angeles soul singer working in the neo soul and R&B tradition, and her chart record shows how durable that lane has been for her. Her 2005 debut album started a run that has put her at the top of the Billboard Adult R&B chart multiple times across more than a decade. In 2012 she released Loving You More... In the Spirit of Etta James, a set that placed her voice directly against the catalog it descends from, and she has kept releasing since, most recently See Me in 2021. She records for BMG Rights Management.
She started out singing behind other people. Born Alechia Janeice Campbell in Los Angeles, she spent the 1990s as a background vocalist before stepping out on her own, with her first solo appearance arriving on the 2000 film soundtrack Whatever It Takes. Early in that stretch, James Brown singled her out and called her "The Goddaughter of Soul," a line that has followed her career since.
James has carried that voice from theaters to fairgrounds, with dates at the Paramount Theatre, the Peacock Theater, and the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. It is a straightforward pitch for a buyer: a soul and R&B vocalist with a deep catalog and a long chart history, well suited to festival and fair lineups, casino and performing arts center stages, college events, corporate dates, and private engagements.
