December 2009 - Leila announced as a finalist in Toyota Star Maker 2010.
Tamworth gig guide coming soon.
November 2009 - Album launch released
1 October 2009 - Debut Album ‘Life’s Good Medicine’ release date.
September 2009 – ‘Life’s Good Medicine’ title track and 1st single released to radio.
July 2009 - ‘Ghost Town’ taken on by US song promoter TK Promotions
June 2009 - ‘Run Run Run’ wins best ‘country’ song ASC songwriting competition 2009.
June 2009 - ‘Desert of Love’ wins best ‘blues/roots/folk’ song ASC songwriting competition 2009.
Biography
LEILA FISHER
Country music singer/songwriter Leila Fisher grew up in the wilderness of Outback Australia. The 3rd child born of 6 children to a German mother and Australian father, Leila grew up in a musical family with no electricity, no TV, no phone, no indoor plumbing(!) on a remote Gulf country cattle station 300km north of tiny Cloncurry, best known for being the hottest place in Australia. Her father died of cancer when Leila was in her early teens. She and her 5 siblings were raised in extreme isolation by their mother.
‘In the day we worked, except for Christmas, New Year and when it rained. At night we swatted mosquitoes, read junk westerns, and played cards or music until the gidyea beetles forced us to turn out the gas lamp. There isn’t much else to do when you don’t have a telephone or electricity.’
Leila credits her father with her early interest in music. ‘He was very musical and could pick up any instrument and play it. Dad was always singing to us as kids even when he was very sick. Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Slim Dusty, Johnny Cash, Charlie Pride. We always sang when we were doing any kind of horse or cattle work.’
These days Leila writes songs and operates a sheep and cattle property with her family outside of Orange in the beautiful central west of New South Wales. Songwriting collaborators welcome.
