Leah LaBelle

Leah LaBelle
An image of a woman performing on a stage. She is wearing a crop top, shiny shorts, and a baseball cap. She is singing into a microphone and looking away from the camera.
Leah LaBelle performing at the Crocodile Cafe in October 2013
Background information
Birth name Leah LaBelle Vladowski
Born (1986-09-08)September 8, 1986
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Origin Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Died January 31, 2018(2018-01-31) (aged 31)
Studio City, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 2004–2018
Labels
Associated acts
Website www.LeahLaBelle.com

Leah LaBelle Vladowski (September 8, 1986 – January 31, 2018) was a Canadian-born American singer. Born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Seattle, Washington, LaBelle pursued a career in music beginning in her teens. During her childhood, she performed in the Total Experience Gospel Choir and the musical Black Nativity. At age 16, she was a finalist on the third season of American Idol. After placing twelfth during the season finals, she attended the Berklee College of Music, where she collaborated with Andreao Heard on a demo. LaBelle then moved to Los Angeles, and released covers of R&B and soul music through her YouTube channel. Keri Hilson hired LaBelle as a backing vocalist after watching her version of "Energy"; LaBelle then worked with Robin Thicke, Jordin Sparks, the Jonas Brothers, Britney Spears, and Eric Benét on their tours.

L.A. Reid's company Epic, in a partnership with Pharrell Williams' label I Am Other, and Jermaine Dupri's label So So Def Recordings, signed a record deal with LaBelle. Her sampler album Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle (2012) was made available to record companies. Her single "Sexify" and the promotional single "What Do We Got To Lose?" supported the album. LaBelle received the Soul Train Centric Award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards. In 2013, she released the stand-alone single "Lolita". On January 31, 2018, LaBelle and her boyfriend Rasual Butler died in a car crash in Studio City, Los Angeles. A posthumous extended play, Love To the Moon, was released on September 7, 2018.

Life and career

1986–2004: Early life and American Idol

Leah LaBelle Vladowski[lower-alpha 1] was born on September 8, 1986, in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Seattle, Washington.[2][3] She was the only child of Anastasia and Troshan Vladowski, who were Bulgarian singers.[2] Anastasia had previously recorded pop music, and she formed Bulgaria's first rock band with Troshan called the Silver Bracelets.[4] LaBelle also had an uncle who released rock music in Bulgaria.[3] After defecting from Bulgaria during a 1979 tour,[5][6] LaBelle's parents emigrated to Canada and later the United States, becoming naturalized citizens in both countries.[2] They initially moved to Pennsylvania, where Anastasia cleaned CVS Pharmacy parking lots, before going to Tacoma, Washington.[7] While in the United States, they formed the music group Double Freedom and toured the country.[7][8] During this time, LaBelle's parents divorced, and she was raised primarily by her mother in Seattle.[7] As a child, LaBelle listened to music, including jazz and the Beatles, with her mother, but felt the most connected with R&B.[9] She had been discouraged from pursuing a career in the genre,[10] but explained she ignored stereotypes involving blue-eyed soul.[9] Her early influences included Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Sade, Brandy Norwood, and Kim Burrell.[9][11]

An image of a brick building with blue doors and white windows and accents.
Leah LaBelle attended Garfield High School.

LaBelle started performing publicly in 1990,[2] including singing on stage during her parents' tours.[8] At the age of 11, she joined the Total Experience Gospel Choir,[12] after being inspired by Lauryn Hill's performance in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.[13] LaBelle cited Hill as her biggest musical influence.[9][11] While performing in the choir, she became interested in gospel and soul music.[14] She also participated in beauty pageants; in 1997, she won the Washington State Pre-teen Miss America Pageant and was the first runner-up in the National Pageant.[5] A year later, she performed in the musical Black Nativity, and stayed in the production for five years under the mentorship of Pat Wright. In 2000, she joined the children's reality show Caught in the Middle and remained a part of the program for two years.[2] LaBelle attended Garfield High School,[5] where she sang in a jazz band led by Clarence Acox Jr.[2] After winning the Grand Prize at KUBE 93.3 Summer Jam Idol in 2002, she performed as the opening act in the Summer Jam 20.[5]

At the age of 16, LaBelle tried out for the third season of the television show American Idol.[5] She appeared on the series while a senior in high school.[2] For her audition, she performed a cover of Whitney Houston's "I Believe in You and Me". After becoming one of the 32 semi-finalists, LaBelle was eliminated in the top 30 round, but judge Paula Abdul chose her as a "wildcard selection" to advance as one of the twelve finalists.[12] LaBelle placed twelfth during the season finals,[5] after performing a cover of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".[12] Looking back on American Idol in a 2016 interview, LaBelle felt that she was "too young at that time and not developed enough as an artist".[8] The compilation album American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics (2004) included her version of The Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly, Wow".[15] While recording the song, LaBelle was briefly mentored by one of album's producers, but he focused on his work with Rihanna instead.[8] AllMusic's Heather Phares praised LaBelle as "surprisingly strong and mature", and wrote that "the studio brings out colors in her voice that she didn't display on-stage".[15] On the other hand, Steve Hammer of NUVO criticized her as "crushing the life" from the original.[16]

American Idol Season 3 performances and results:[12]
Week # Theme Song choice Original artist Results
Audition N/A "I Believe in You and Me" Whitney Houston Advanced
Hollywood N/A "Young Hearts Run Free" Candi Staton Advanced
Top 30 Semi-final/Group 1 "I Have Nothing" Whitney Houston Eliminated
Wildcard "Let's Stay Together" Al Green Paula Abdul's choice
Top 12 Motown "You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes Eliminated

2004–2010: Breakthrough with YouTube

A stone building with a sign displaying the name of "Berklee College of Music".
LaBelle attended Berklee College of Music for one year.

In 2004, after returning from American Idol,[2] LaBelle performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a National Football League game, and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during a National Basketball Association game.[17][18] The same year, she featured on Lisa Leuschner's cover of "Silent Night" for her album Sing Me Home.[19] She recorded "Christmas Time" for the compilation album Christmas in the Northwest, Vol. 7.[20] After graduating from Garfield High School in 2005, she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] LaBelle attended the college to move away from Seattle, explaining: "I had to just come into my own world, my own zone and really appreciate me and my music."[21]

While attending Berklee College, LaBelle turned down two recording contracts, including one from Andreao Heard, based on her attorney's advice. Her mother explained that she found the offers "too binding".[21] Heard became interested in LaBelle after watching a video of her performance in the Total Experience Gospel Choir.[22] While working with him, she recorded a demo written by Makeba Riddick,[21] which they sent it out to various record labels.[22] LaBelle's focus shifted toward combining R&B with pop music; she explained: "I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me real music isn’t everything being synthesized, computerized."[21] In a 2018 Billboard article, Heard attributed the ending of their working relationship to "the business side of the industry".[22]

LaBelle only stayed at Berklee College for one year,[7] before moving to Los Angeles, California, to pursue her career in music at the age of 21.[8] She received attention after releasing cover versions of R&B and soul music on her YouTube channel.[13][14][23] She created the account on December 1, 2007,[24] after being encouraged to do so by an industry contact.[8] In a 2012 interview with Seventeen, LaBelle said that working in a recording studio was a higher priority for her than filming YouTube videos.[25] Desire Thompson of Vibe wrote "the early days of YouTube were a blessing to singers like LaBelle".[14] In 2008, Keri Hilson saw LaBelle's cover of her single "Energy", which received over 500,000 views as of October 16, 2012,[23] and hired her as a backing vocalist.[14] Viewing Hilson as her mentor, LaBelle explained: "She's brought me along with her and allowed me to see into the industry a little bit deeper than I already have."[14] LaBelle was a background singer for Robin Thicke, Jordin Sparks, the Jonas Brothers, Britney Spears, and Eric Benét during their respective tours.[14][25] In March 2008, she performed at Quincy Jones' 75th birthday party at the Northwest African American Museum.[26] She made a cameo appearance in Sparks' music video for "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)",[27] and was included on American Idol Rewind.[28] In July 2009, LaBelle featured on Kumasi's single "Angel" from his debut studio album The One.[29][30]

2011–2018: Record contract

In 2011, LaBelle signed a record deal with L.A. Reid's company Epic in a partnership with Pharrell Williams' label I Am Other and Jermaine Dupri's label So So Def Recordings.[13][23] Dupri and Williams had first noticed the singer through her YouTube videos, and Dupri contacted her through Twitter;[9] they each acted as a mentor for her.[14] Prior to receiving their messages, she had considering giving up on a music career.[7] On May 1, 2012, LaBelle released the five-track sampler album Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle,[31][32] distributed primarily to record companies.[33] It was also uploaded on LaBelle's SoundCloud account.[34] She said the sampler was representative of her then-upcoming studio album,[lower-alpha 2] explaining: "It's just that feel-good-texture music, that throwback-but-new feel."[11] LaBelle began recording music for her album with Williams in Miami, Florida and Dupri in Atlanta, Georgia.[7]

An image of a young woman performing on stage. She is wearing a red, white, and black striped shirt and denim shorts.
LaBelle performing at the J&R superstore in New York in 2012

The sampler was promoted through the single "Sexify",[31] which LaBelle and Williams based on headlines from Cosmopolitan.[38] It peaked at number 89 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart.[39] In a 2018 article, Natalie Maher of Billboard identified "Sexify" as LaBelle's breakthrough.[33] As of January 31, 2018, the single had received over a million views on YouTube.[33] "What Do We Got To Lose?" was released in November 2012 as a promotional single.[40] LaBelle received the Soul Train Centric Award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards, where she also performed a tribute to Aretha Franklin and Teena Marie with Fantasia Barrino.[41] She sang as part of the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana,[42] and BET's Music Matters showcase, which was held over the weekend of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.[43]

LaBelle released a standalone-single, "Lolita", on May 7, 2013,[44] with a digital extended play (EP) of 10 electro house remixes and instrumentals made available on March 26, 2013.[45] While music critics had varying opinions on the song's connection to Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel of the same name,[46][47][48] LaBelle clarified that it was about being someone's desire or fantasy and not the fictional character.[49] "Lolita" reached number seven on the Dance Club Songs Billboard chart,[50] and ranked at number 264 on the official Tophit airplay chart.[51]

In the same year, LaBelle featured on Brian Cross' single "Shot Gun" from his album Pop Star,[52][53] and did background vocals for Nelly's seventh studio album M.O..[54] During the fall of 2013, she opened for JoJo's The Agápē Tour.[55][56] The following year, LaBelle appeared as a dancer in Williams' music video for "Happy",[57] and provided vocals for his second studio album Girl.[58] After reuniting with LaBelle at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017, Andreao Heard said that she was experiencing a "dark period" and could not release new music. Heard described her as "trapped" following the poor commercial performance of her debut singles; he believed she had given up on a music career.[22]

Death and aftermath

On January 31, 2018, LaBelle and her boyfriend Rasual Butler died in a car crash in Studio City, California, after he lost control of his Range Rover on Ventura Boulevard. Before the crash, which occurred at 2:25  a.m. (PT), Butler was driving over two or three times the speed limit.[59] They both died instantly from "multiple traumatic injuries".[60][61] According to an autopsy report, Butler had methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana in his system and a blood alcohol level of 0.118.[61] LaBelle had a blood alcohol level of .144 at the time of the incident.[60] Even though Butler referred to LaBelle as his wife, the couple never married.[2][60][62][lower-alpha 3]

On February 3, 2018, Butler's daughter Raven held a memorial service in Los Angeles; it was also streamed online.[63] An individual service was held for LaBelle on February 24 at Garfield High School, and an obituary was published in the February 11 issue of The Seattle Times.[2] Her body was cremated, and the ashes were given to her family.[64] LaBelle's mother provided a $10,000 scholarship under her daughter's name to University of Southern California student.[65]

Prior to her death, LaBelle was reportedly recording new music.[14] In February 2018, Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox released two tracks – "Scumbag" and "Stereo" – by LaBelle.[66][67] In the same month, Heard expressed interest in making available unreleased material that he had recorded with her.[22] A posthumous EP, Love To the Moon, was released on September 7, 2018. The five songs were donated by the producers, and JoJo included dedications to LaBelle on her social media for a week.[68] On September 11, 2018, a trailer for the project was released on LaBelle's Vevo account.[69] Proceeds from the EP were donated to yearly scholarships.[65]

Discography

Album

Title Album details List of songs
Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle[32]
  • Released: May 1, 2012
  • Epic (88725 40238 2)
  • Released for record companies
Track listing[32]

  1. So Hot
  2. Sexify
  3. Make Me Get Up
  4. What Do We Got To Lose?
  5. Mr. Scissors

Extended play

Title EP details List of songs
Love to the Moon
  • Released: September 7, 2018
  • Posthumous release
Track listing[68]

  1. Sun
  2. Made Man
  3. Something About the Cold
  4. Lost Angels
  5. Orange Skies

Singles, as primary artist

List of charity singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
R&B[39]		 US
Dance[70]		 RU[51]
"Sexify" 2012 23 — — Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle
"Lolita" 2013 — 7 264 Non-album single
"—" denotes items which failed to chart or were not released in that country.

Promotional single

Title Year Album
"What Do We Got To Lose?"[40] 2012 Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle

Other appearances

Title Year Album
"Betcha by Golly, Wow"[15] 2004 American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics
"Christmas Time"[20] Christmas in the Northwest, Vol. 7.
"Silent Night"[19]
(with Lisa Leuschner)		 Sing Me Home
"Angel"[29]
(with Kumasi)		 2009 The One
"Shot Gun"[53]
(with Brian Cross)		 2013 Pop Star

Filmography

Year Show Role Notes
2004 American Idol[12] Herself (finalist) Season 3
2008 American Idol Rewind[28] Herself (finalist)

Notes

  1. ↑ LaBelle adopted the stage name Leah LaBelle while participating on American Idol. She had initially auditioned under the name Leah Vladowski.[1] She is referenced by her full name Leah LaBelle Vladowski in her obituary.[2]
  2. ↑ Initially expected for a 2012 and later a 2013 release,[35][36][37] LaBelle's debut studio album was never made available.[14]
  3. ↑ LaBelle's mother and Butler's daughter disputed reports that LaBelle was married.[60][62] LaBelle's obituary also references Butler as her boyfriend rather than her husband.[2]

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