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Leah Song (born Leah Smith) is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, storyteller, poet, ''griot'' and activist known her role as front woman in Rising Appalachia, with her sister Chloe Smith, incorporating sultry vocals, rhythm, banjo, guitar, ballads, dance, spoken-word and storytelling into her work. Her music is based in the traditions of Southern soul and international roots music. Song engages in social activism and is involved with the environment, food justice, human rights and prisons. She has been a speaker at TEDx in Asheville, North Carolina. ==Early life and education== Leah Smith was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia in an artistic family. Her father, Andrew Hunter Smith, was a folk-sculptor and painter. Her mother, Jan Smith, was a jazz pianist and folk musician schooled in the traditions of southern Appalachian folk music who played fiddle with the Rosin Sisters. Her musical education was nurtured by her mother, who ensured that both sisters received classical and jazz piano training for the most of their upbringing. Smith's mother also guided their training in vocals and harmony singing. Banjo, fiddle and guitar came later, after the sisters had left home and traveled internationally with music as their way of connecting with the places that they visited. She has lived in Atlanta Georgia, New Orleans, North Carolina, Mexico, Hawaii, Colombia, and traveled extensively beyond that. She graduated from Henry W. Grady High School where she was involved in political activism. Determined to pursue an experiential form of education, at 19 she moved to Mexico, where she became involved with the Zapatista movement. In a 2014 interview, she said of the experience, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leah Song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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