PEG Interviews Contemporary Recording Artist Shaleyah
Bio
Vocalist. Songwriter. Dancer. Bringing something regal, fresh and relatable to the stage. Residing in New Orleans, LA the birthplace of Jazz, Shaleyah SunChaser is a contemporary national recording and touring artist. With over 10 years of professional experience in the music business, Shaleyah is formerly the co-lead singer of the R&B Funk group Water Seed. She has opened for national and international recording artists and entertainers such as Yolanda Adams, Lalah Hathaway, Avery Sunshine, Kathy Taylor and the late Keith Wilder of “Heatwave,” including those she has shared the stage with collaboratively!
Shaleyah’s clear tone, soulful style and unconventional vocal approach have placed her in front of R&B, Pop, Jazz, and Gospel audiences nationwide. As a former member of Water Seed, Shaleyah has also been featured on WUPL’s “The 504” TV program with Sheba Turk, JAZZ WCLK of Clark Atlanta University 91.9 FM, and on FOX8 Cleveland morning news segment “Jukebox”. You can even find songs she has written being played on 107.3 The Wave, Cleveland’s Smooth FM, 90.7 WWOZ of New Orleans and 106.7 NOLA’s R&B Station! Along with Water Seed, Shaleyah has also performed at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the New Orleans Essence Festival, the Richmond Jazz Festival, the Flood City Music Festival, a 3-month residency in Russia, the Dogwood Music Festival, headliner at the Apollo Theater (sold out show), the Civic Theater in New Orleans, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Museum and The Legendary Bitter End in New York, Martyr’s in Chicago, The Mint and Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, and countless other venues and festivals throughout the world. Two of the most recent Water Seed project’s where Shaleyah contributed were “We Are Stars” & “Say Yeah” which reached #27 on the R&B Billboard charts and #8 on the Heatseeker Chart!
Link
https://shaleyah.com/store
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2yLZqVHKOpLobBqMi2ooSO?si=qFqW_8rhR96kGVyOF5D7lA
Spotify: The Victor “Begin To End”
https://open.spotify.com/album/6cn48QIQyQOfJ9l4ohOY4E?si=eihNi4OxRVuNV6Y9PlioSw. YouTube https://youtu.be/EeI04ugtt_E
