BIO

Since arriving on the scene in the late 1990’s, Ledisi has garnered three Soul Train Music Awards, an NAACP Theater Award and six NAACP Image Award nominations. Most recently, she received two LA Alliance Ovation Award nominations, with one for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. 

Born in New Orleans and raised in Oakland, CA, Ledisi has wowed fans with her unparalleled vocals ever since she burst onto the scene. She is a favorite of The Obamas and a long list of icons including the late-Prince, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and so many more. Ledisi has headlined two nationally sold-out tours, performed alongside Dave Matthews, Kelly Clarkson, Vince Gill and Maxwell, as well as jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Patti Austin.

No stranger to the film and television world, Ledisi landed her first feature, singing in the George Clooney directed film Leatherheads. In 2015 she landed a role in the Oscar-nominated movie, Selma, portraying the great Mahalia Jackson and had a notable performance in Gabourney Sidibe’s Shatterbox Anthology film, The Tale of Four. Ledisi also landed her first major television role, playing the legendary Patti LaBelle on the hit BET series American Soul.

Ledisi has also been active in the theater, making her debut as a Radio and Washing Machine understudy on Broadway appearing in Tony Kushner’s Caroline or Change, directed by George C. Wolfe. She helped workshop the Tony Award winning musical The Color Purple and then began her recording career signing a deal with Verve/Universal Music Group. Ledisi returned to theatre in 2019 as The Ancestor in the critically acclaimed Off Broadway musical Witness Uganda by Griffith Matthews and Matt Gould, the role for which she received the LA Alliance Ovation Award nomination. Also in 2019, she co-wrote and co-produced her one-woman show, The Legend of Little Girl Blue. The show premiered at the Wallis Theatre in Beverly Hills to rave reviews with 19-sold out shows.