ELEISHA EAGLE: Private School

Eleisha Eagle

Private School

© 2005 Eleisha Eagle (634479103834)

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Ben Folds ate a Fiona Apple and gave birth to a showtune about a postmodern Catholic school girl.

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Pianist/singer/songwriter Eleisha Eagle was on a scholarship in St. Louis, Missouri majoring in marketing and advertising graphic design in 2002 when she realized how much she missed performing. So Eagle persuaded her parents and Washington University's Dean of Students to allow her to take a year off in Nashville, to pursue her dream of a music career.

Eagle readily acknowledges that this was an unusual artistic direction for an experienced musical theatre performer and dancer. It was a strange twist for a songwriter whose favorite lyricist is the dark and dramatic film and theatre composer Stephen Sondheim. But it was even a stretch for the former high school-era band member who covered well-known songs with here best schoolmate in a duo whose career highlight was busking in New York's Central Park during their senior trip, earning tips and appreciation from usually blase' locals and the occasional famous face.

The Eagle's baby sister Alexandra came from Lake Charles to Nashville for an all-too-brief visit one not-so-special summer. When she left, Eagle channeled the ache of missing Alexandra into a poignant rock song, pouring her sorrow into straightforaward big-sisterly promises and warnings set to hard-driving chords and a purring bass line.

From that first song, Eagle says, she never looked back. Just two short years later, the former nanny and waitress has created a substantial body of better than good work, earned regular gigs at Nashville college coffee shops, and grown savvier about the business.

Eagle's recording studio blurb describes her music as what you get when you let "Ben Folds [eat] a Fiona Apple and [give] birth to a show tune about a postmodern Catholic school girl" (www.theparkstudio.com). Now that's a colorful pronouncement, but I can assure you, between Folds and Apple is a nice spot to be in, out there among the alternative scene and rock herd. And it's a place in which Eagle and her artlessly crafted lyrics will most surely thrive.

Eagle is almost ready to leave for southern California, the place she believes she should move on to in pursuit of her artistic future. She's dreaming about it. But back in Nashville she's got a manager and a producer, and it's there she wrote her first dozen songs, all of which have been beautifully recorded for her autobiographical CD debut, "Private School." "It's a coming-of-age record," Eagle says, about lessons and love, and growing into your own skin.

-Leslie Behrman

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  • A breath of fresh air!
    author: Richard Keller (The UBA

    I caught her solo show a couple of months back in Dallas and picked up this CD, and I was blown away. Her obviously theatre-trained voice is paired with amazingly lush and complex arrangements. Fancy words aside, she can rock, roll, and croon with the best of them. Very ecletic and very listenable. I particularly liked Darla, Catholic School Girl, and My Birthday, which is a great jazz number that shows her sense of humor (and also provides a warning to any man in her future: you'll become a song you might not want to be known for inspiring!)

  • WOW!
    author: Charlie

    I absolutely love this CD. Eleisha is such a great singer and songwriter. The melodies have fantastic hooks, the lyrics are extremely honest and the production is simply beautiful. I never get tired of listening to Private School. A real keeper.

  • The best CD I've ever bought! Honest!!!
    author: Elizabeth

    Eleisha has the voice you want in your CD player! She is a talented composer and pianist. You won't regret ordering this CD!!!

  • Amazing
    author: Christian

    This is a must have cd!! Eleisha is a phenom artist. Get this one so you can say you got it when...Plus she is pretty cute too!

  • Whoa! Where Did This Talent Come From?
    author: Muzik Lover

    This Cd is one of the best I have ever heard. Her piano in it is incredible, the lyrics are so thought out and her back ground music is amazing! I once saw her live, don't worry, this is not Ashlee Simpson! Eleisha is so talented! This is a definite, "Must Have," Cd! So, please don't think twice, buy it!

  • Beautiful! Eleisha knows her music!
    author: Michelle

    This an awesome, totally great CD! So great to listen to no matter what mood you're in!

  • Fun!
    author: Whitney

    This is a gem of an album in that it is fun to sing along with- especially "Darla" with its great booming ending- but the lyrics are pretty good too. This is going to be spending a lot of time in my CD player.

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