Alabama
34 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Vocalist, Lyricist

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BIOGRAPHY

Nash was born Leigh Bingham in New Braunfels, Texas. She met guitarist and songwriter Matt Slocum at a church retreat in the early 1990s. The two formed Sixpence None the Richer soon after and went on to record four full-length albums with the band. Their first album, released when she was just 16, was The Fatherless & the Widow. The album garnered critical acclaim and Slocum and Nash searched for new band members.[2]
They found Tess Wiley, Dale Baker, and J.J. Plascencio. The new band recorded This Beautiful Mess, which won a Dove Award for Best Album. Wiley quit the band after their US tour and the band signed to the Squint Records label.[3]
The band's new eponymous album was released in 1997 and the single "Kiss Me" in 1999. In 1999 they received numerous Dove Awards, including Best Artist of the Year. The band was also nominated for a Grammy Award.
After problems with their record labels, Sixpence came back in 2001 with the album Divine Discontent after losing both Dale Baker and J.J. Plascencio. Two singles from that album, "Breathe Your Name" and "Don't Dream It's Over", went onto the charts. However, Sixpence announced their break-up on 26 February 2004 when Slocum sent a letter to CCM Magazine.
In spite of the colossal success the band enjoyed with ubiquitous pop singles like “Kiss Me” and “There She Goes,” the group was continually plagued by the business woes of the trade and finally decided to split ways amicably. Disoriented by this major change, Nash and her husband left their Nashville home of ten years and moved to Los Angeles.
While in L.A., Nash penned a batch of songs that would eventually comprise her first solo record, Blue on Blue, a sweetly understated collection of musings on love and motherhood released in August 2006 on One Son Records, Nash’s own imprint label through Nettwerk Productions.
In the meantime, Nash moved back to Music City and into a new community of musicians – a recently formed rock collective called Movement Nashville. The group hopes to dispel the myth that musically Nashville is limited to Country or Christian.
Nash, Megan Thomspon and Kate York started a Christian band called "Thompson, York & Nash", they worked a few songs that has put on * Myspace.
In November 2007, Leigh and Matt met over coffee and positively discussed the reuniting of Sixpence. The band is currently in the process of tracking a new EP.[4]
In January 2008 Nash travelled down under to New Zealand to perform at the annual Parachute Music Festival. Performing on the main stage twice, she attracted crowds of over 30,000 who enjoyed her acoustic covers of Sixpence None the Richer hits "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes".

LEVEL

professional

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

guitaracoustic / vocals

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG PLACEMENTS

"Need to Be Next to You" from Bounce (2000) "Charmed Life" from Uptown Girls (2003) "Father and Son" from Everwood (2004) "I've Gotta See You Smile" from Because of Winn-Dixie(2005) "Beautiful World" from Charlotte's Web (2006) "A Place for Us" from Bridge to Terabithia (2007) "Hole in the Bucket" from The Simple Life: Camp Songs (2007) [edit]

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