Leather Leone
Leather Leone | |
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San Francisco, California, U.S. | |
Genres | Heavy metal |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Years active | 1980s–1991, 2011–present |
Member of | Chastain, SledgeLeather / Leather |
Formerly of | Rude Girl |
Website | leatherleone |
Catherine Anne Leone, known professionally as Leather Leone, is an American heavy metal vocalist, best known for fronting the groups Rude Girl and Chastain in the 1980s. She released one solo album, Shock Waves, in 1989, before taking a twenty-year break from the music scene.[1] In 2011 she began performing again in The Sledge/Leather Project, which released a debut heavy metal album, Imagine Me Alive, in 2012.
Career
Rude Girl
Leather Leone started singing in the early 1980s. She joined with drummer Sandy Sledge to start the all-female metal band Rude Girl in
Chastain
Leone soon became lead vocalist of the band
Solo albums and Sledge/Leather
Leone released her debut solo album, Shock Waves, in 1989 on Roadrunner Records. The album was first released in 1989 through David T. Chastain's own label Leviathan Records.[1] After a final tour in 1991, she disappeared from the music scene.[2]
Leone resurfaced in 2011 to form the duo The Sledge/Leather Project with former bandmate Sandy Sledge on drums, and Matthias 'Matthew' Weisheit on guitar. The heavy metal duo released a debut album, Imagine Me Alive, in early 2012.[2]
Leone has recently resurfaced with a band in Brasil. In 2016, 2018, and 2019, she did a South American and European tours with much success.
She has since released another two full-length studio albums: Leather II was released on April 13, 2018, via Divebomb Records in the United States and via High Roller Records in Europe;
Discography
Malibu Barbi
- Rude Girls EP (1987)
Chastain
- Mystery of Illusion (1985)
- Ruler of the Wasteland (1986)
- The 7th of Never (1987)
- The Voice of the Cult (1988)
- For Those Who Dare (1990)
- The Reign of Leather (2010)
- Surrender to No One (2013)
- We Bleed Metal (2015)
- "We Bleed Metal 17" (2017)
- "1319" (2019)
Leather
- Shock Waves (1989)
- Leather II (2018)
- We Are the Chosen (2022)
Sledge/Leather
- Imagine Me Alive (2012)
References
- ^ a b "Leather – Shock Waves". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Interview with Leather Leone by EC". Maximum Metal.
- ^ a b "History". SledgeLeather.com.
- ^ Putterford, Mark (October 30, 1986). "David T. Chastain". Kerrang!. Vol. 132. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. pp. 40–41.
- ^ "CHASTAIN Singer LEATHER LEONE to Release 'II' Album in April". January 4, 2018.