With a thunderous rasp, spellbinding style, and elegant, dynamic mystique, Elise LeGrow is the Canadian powerhouse defying pop culture chronology, wowing Questlove, Betty Wright, and a crew of R&B legends along the way. She melds fiery passion and sophistication with just a hint of sandpapery grit to in a voice that could only belong to a star, no matter the era or genre.
Though her father hailed from Chicago (home of Chess Records), and his father was a drummer and trumpeter active in the city’s jazz scene in the 1950’s, LeGrow first became obsessed with singing at roughly the same age she began speaking. By the time she hit her teens, she was working her way through the American songbook, channeling influences from Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey to Nina Simone and Martha and the Vandellas in her native Toronto nightclubs, while touring with an indie rock band on the side.
With a thunderous rasp, spellbinding style, and elegant, dynamic mystique, Elise LeGrow is the Canadian powerhouse defying pop culture chronology, wowing Questlove, Betty Wright, and a crew of R&B legends along the way. She melds fiery passion and sophistication with just a hint of sandpapery grit to in a voice that could only belong to a star, no matter the era or genre.
Though her father hailed from Chicago (home of Chess Records), and his father was a drummer and trumpeter active in the city’s jazz scene in the 1950’s, LeGrow first became obsessed with singing at roughly the same age she began speaking. By the time she hit her teens, she was working her way through the American songbook, channeling influences from Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey to Nina Simone and Martha and the Vandellas in her native Toronto nightclubs, while touring with an indie rock band on the side.