Michelle Leonard (Born 5 June 1973) Is a British Singer and Songwriter, Now Based in Berlin
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Michelle Leonard (born 5 June 1973) is a British singer and songwriter, now based in Berlin. Since 2006, Leonard has co-written multiple songs for singles and albums that charted in Europe, chiefly Germany.[1][2] As a songwriter she is signed to BMG Rights Management. Leonard grew up in Germany and attended British schools there. EMI Music Publishing signed her when she was 17.[3] As an artist, Leonard released her first single with 16 which was a cover version of Twin Peak´s "Are we falling". Leonard's first songs included "Feel So Perfect". The song was used for a pan-European C&A advertising campaign that went on for three years, with different films around the song. "Feel So Perfect" was released by Cape featuring Michelle Leonard and became a radio hit. Many of her Co-written songs we´re used in Advertisements such as Axe, RMS (Radio marketing services), FORD KA and Vodafone (Germany) with AURORA´s single "Running with the wolves" She was the Performance and music director for the German theatre abroad project in New York / Public Theater. She directed the musical "Electric Society", which was staged on 12 November 2005 in Cologne, Germany. Leonard has written songs for several advertisement campaigns, films, TV-productions and many artists world wide. She was a judge in 2009 in a German casting television show named Popstars and released her Album Fragile in December 2009 (Universal music Germany). Since 2007, Leonard is a lecturer at the Popakademie (University of Popular Music and Music Business) in Germany for Songwriting.[4] In 2011, Leonard started the co-publishing company "DOLSIRA" with Universal Music Publishing, Germany. In 2015, she started her artist project “Solamay"..