VAL LEROY: Waiting For The Sun

Val LeRoy

Waiting For The Sun

© 2002 Blue Leaf Music, Ltd (776127167529)

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Pop country with a bit of a blues edge, Val's unique songwriting and sultry delivery has reviewers and fans around the world raving.

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Val LeRoy Biography


Val LeRoy is an artist whose time has come. With her first full-length CD garnering rave reviews, she has truly become someone to watch.

Val started working as a professional musician at the tender age of fifteen. She has tried her hand at many musical styles, from Hard Rock to Dance Pop and R&B. So how is it that she is now recording as a country artist? " Well", she says, " Country was my first influence, and I feel like it's truest to who I am. I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, in a nice family, so I have that traditional background. But I know that both my singing and songwriting have been strongly influenced by other styles as well."

Val settled in Calgary and began to concentrate more on her songwriting, winning the Southern Alberta Songwriting Competition. In 1995 she entered and won the Alberta Theater Project's 'Spirit of Patsy Cline' Contest, which gained her national television exposure and a trip to Nashville. She was twice invited to showcase for the Canadian Country Music Association. In 1998, Val released a four song CD produced by British Columbia's 1996 producer of the year, Tony Rudner (Farmer's Daughter, Rachel Matkin). Three of the four songs on that CD charted on the Canadian Country Music Charts (Country Music News), demonstrating her radio appeal.

In 2001,Val hooked up with the independent record label Blue Leaf Music and began work on Val's current CD, " Waiting for the Sun". The CD was produced by Rick Mizzoni and J. Richard Hutt (2000 CCMA's producer of the year, who has produced Lace, Jamie Warren, John Landry, and Dianne Chase), using the top players in the country. Most of the songs on the CD are Val LeRoy/ Rick Mizzoni co-writes . One of the songs they wrote, " Next Time", was advance- released as a single and hit the top 50 on the BDS chart in Canada. The single " Radio Up, Windows Down" was accompanied by a CMT video, produced by award winning director, Joel Stewart (Blue Rodeo, Terri Clark).

Since the release of the CD, Val has been a featured artist at many profile venues. Along with Jann Arden & Paul Brandt, Val performed at the Say Hay Benefit concerts, to aid drought-stricken Alberta farmers, in Calgary at the Saddledome, as well as the Skyreach Centre in Edmonton. She also appeared recently on the Main Stage at Dauphin Countryfest with Jimmy Rankin and Blue Rodeo and performed at Big Valley Jamboree in August. This year the CCMA has invited Val LeRoy to perform at the much-coveted "Fanfest" and "Songwriter's Café" during Canadian Country Music Week in Calgary, where she will also take part in a tribute performance to Canadian Hall of Fame Inductee, Sylvia Tyson. She has had a busy summer of playing with her band, and is busy writing for her new CD, as well as pitching songs to other artists.

Expect to hear more from Val LeRoy!



Contact:Val LeRoy
(403) 230-4096
Blue Leaf Music
(403) 247-5130
www.valleroy.net

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  • Excellent Canadian Countryrock
    author: Søren Andersen, Hvidovre, Denmark

    "Waiting For The Sun" is an excellent choice if you like listening to countryrock. Val Leroy is a great singer, too. She cowrote most of the tracks ensuring a more personal approach to lyrics and music. She handles uptempo songs as well as ballads, but luckily avoids the sentimentality usually associated with country muisc coming out of Nashville. Surely, there must be a place for LeRoy in the world of music,even though the competition probably is tough. She deserves a big public. Great album!

  • Another fine album from another Canadian songbird!
    author: Doug Morris

    There are twelve tracks on this album, and friends, this young lady wrote or co-wrote nine of them!! She has a great, strong voice, which at times, kind of actually reminds me strongly of Shania Twain, but is clearly her own sound. She has a very good balance of tracks, fast and slow and has an excellent band and backup vocals behind her. As for my picks for best tracks, we can start off with "Shakin' The Floor." It's a real good toe-tapper that I'm adding to my Favorite Songs list. Other favorite songs on this album are a lovely, slow ballad titled "I Still Dream", a cute lyric song, "How Seldom I Do", and a medium tempo song that would be great to dance to, "Seven Longest Nights." I also found "Control Of Me", "Into You", "Radio Up Windows Down", and the title song "Waiting For The Sun" to be very good tunes that I enjoyed immensely. Overall rating? A solid 4 out of 5 stars for content and an extra star for writing 75% of the songs on the album. This is an outstanding album that any fan of contemporary country music will enjoy!

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