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Leah LaBelle Vladowski (September 8, 1986 – January 31, 2018) was an Bulgarian-American singer. She rose to prominence in 2004 as a contestant on the third season of American Idol, placing twelfth in the season finals. In 2007, LaBelle began recording covers of R&B and soul music for her YouTube channel. These videos led to work as a backing vocalist starting in 2008 and a record deal in 2011 with Epic in partnership with I Am Other and So So Def Recordings. LaBelle released a sampler, three singles, and a posthumous extended play (EP).
Leah LaBelle
Still image of a woman looking away from the camera and smiling with an undercut hairstyle; wearing large hoop earrings, a black top, a thick necklace and a leather jacket.
LaBelle during a 2012 interview
Background information
Birth name
Leah LaBelle Vladowski
Born
September 8, 1986
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Origin
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Died
January 31, 2018 (aged 31)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
PopR&Bsoul
Occupation(s)
Singer
Years active
2004–2018
Labels
I Am OtherEpicSo So Def
Website
home.leahlabelle.com
Born in Toronto, and raised in Seattle, Washington, LaBelle began pursuing music as a career in her teens. As a child, she performed in the Total Experience Gospel Choir and the musical Black Nativity. In 2005, LaBelle attended the Berklee College of Music for a year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles. While in college, she collaborated with Andreao Heard on a demo. Following the advice of an industry contact, LaBelle released her music through her YouTube channel. Keri Hilson hired LaBelle as a backing vocalist after hearing her rendition of "Energy", which led to her working for other artists on their tours.
LaBelle signed a record deal after Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri contacted her. Her sampler Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle (2012) was distributed only to record companies. It was supported by two singles, "Sexify" and "What Do We Got To Lose?" LaBelle received the Soul Train Centric Award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards. She released the non-album single "Lolita" the following year. On January 31, 2018, LaBelle and her boyfriend Rasual Butler died in an alcohol and drug–impaired single vehicle car crash in Los Angeles. A posthumous EP, Love to the Moon, was released on September 7, 2018.
Life and career
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1986–2004: Early life and American Idol
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Leah LaBelle Vladowski was born on September 8, 1986, in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Seattle, Washington.[1][2] Her parents, Anastasia and Troshan Vladowski, are Bulgarian singers,[1] and her uncle made rock music in Bulgaria.[2] Anastasia recorded pop music and was in a group with Troshan, who was a founding member of Bulgaria's first rock band, the Silver Bracelets.[3] After defecting from Bulgaria during a 1979 tour,[1][3] LaBelle's parents emigrated to Canada and later the United States, becoming naturalized citizens in both countries.[1] LaBelle grew up listening to music, including jazz and the Beatles, but felt the most connected to R&B.[4]
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As a teenager LaBelle performed in the Total Experience Gospel Choir and was mentored by Pat Wright, seen here in 2016.
LaBelle began performing publicly in 1990,[1] including singing on stage during her parents' tours.[5] From age 11, she joined the Total Experience Gospel Choir after being inspired by Lauryn Hill's performance in the 1993 film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.[6][7] LaBelle cited Hill as her primary musical influence.[4] While performing in the choir, she became interested in gospel and soul music.[8] LaBelle also participated in beauty pageants,[1] and in 1997, she won the Washington State Pre-teen Miss America Pageant and was the first runner-up in the National Pageant.[7] A year later, she performed in the musical Black Nativity and remained with the production for five years. During this time, the Total Experience Gospel Choir's founder, Pat Wright, mentored LaBelle. In 2000, she joined the children's show Caught in the Middle and remained part of the program for two years. LaBelle attended Garfield High School, where she performed in a jazz band led by Clarence Acox Jr. After winning the grand prize at KUBE 93.3's Summer Jam Idol in 2002, she performed as the opening act for Summer Jam 20.[1]
At age 17, LaBelle auditioned for the third season of the television show American Idol,[3] and performed Whitney Houston's "I Believe in You and Me".[6] During her appearances on the series, she was a junior in high school.[3] After becoming one of the 32 semi-finalists, LaBelle was eliminated in the top 30 round, but judge Paula Abdul chose her as her "wildcard selection" to advance as one of the twelve finalists. She placed twelfth during the season finals, after performing a cover of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".[6] Looking back on American Idol in a 2016 interview, LaBelle said she was "too young at that time and not developed enough as an artist".[5]
LaBelle covered the Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly, Wow" for the 2004 compilation album American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics.[9] AllMusic's Heather Phares praised LaBelle as "surprisingly strong and mature", writing that "the studio brings out colors in her voice that she didn't display on-stage".[9] NUVO's Steve Hammer criticized her as "crushing the life" from the original.[10]
American Idol Season 3 performances and results:[6][11]
Week # Theme Song choice Original artist Results
Audition N/A "I Believe in You and Me" Whitney Houston Advanced
Hollywood N/A "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" Diana Ross Advanced
"Young Hearts Run Free" Candi Staton Advanced
Top 30 Semi-final/Group 1 "I Have Nothing" Whitney Houston Eliminated
Wildcard "Let's Stay Together" Al Green Paula Abdul's choice
Top 12 Motown "You Keep Me Hangin' On" The Supremes Eliminated
2004–2010: YouTube and backup singing
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In 2004, following her elimination from American Idol, LaBelle performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a National Football League game and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during a National Basketball Association game.[12][13] The same year, she was featured on Lisa Leuschner's cover of "Silent Night" on her Christmas album Sing Me Home,[14] and recorded "Christmas Time" for the charity album Christmas in the Northwest, Vol. 7.[15][16] After graduating from Garfield High School in 2005, LaBelle attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston.[1][17] In a 2006 interview with The Seattle Times, she explained she moved away from Seattle to "come into my own world, my own zone and really appreciate me and my music".[17] LaBelle briefly returned to Seattle in 2007 to perform a solo for the tenth anniversary of Black Nativity.[18]
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Keri Hilson, pictured here in 2009, became a mentor for LaBelle after hiring her as a backing vocalist.
While attending Berklee College, LaBelle rejected two recording contracts, including one with Andreao Heard, based on her attorney's advice. Her mother said, "the contract they were offering was too binding".[17] Heard became interested in LaBelle after watching a video of her performance in the Total Experience Gospel Choir.[19] She worked with Heard in New York City, and recorded a demo written by Makeba Riddick, which was sent to several record labels.[17][19] During this time, LaBelle decided to combine R&B and pop music, later explaining: "I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized."[17] In a 2018 Billboard article, Heard said "the business side of the industry" prevented him from working further with LaBelle.[19]
LaBelle stayed at Berklee College for one year before moving to Los Angeles at 21 to pursue her music career.[20][5] Following an industry contact's advice, she created a YouTube channel on December 1, 2007,[5][21] and gained recognition for her covers of R&B and soul music.[7][8] In 2018, Vibe's Desire Thompson noted "the early days of YouTube were a blessing to singers like LaBelle".[8]
In 2008 Keri Hilson heard LaBelle's cover of her single "Energy" and hired her as a backing vocalist. LaBelle viewed Hilson as a mentor and said she "brought me along with her and allowed me to see into the industry a little bit deeper than I already have".[8] Her connection with Hilson led to further work as a background singer, and she performed for Robin Thicke, Jordin Sparks, the Jonas Brothers, Britney Spears, and Eric Benét on their respective tours.[8][22] In March 2008, LaBelle sang at Quincy Jones' 75th birthday party at the Northwest African American Museum.[23] The same year, she was included on American Idol Rewind,[24] and in 2009, she was featured on rapper Kumasi's single "Angel" from his debut studio album The One.[25] When Benét was an opening act in Fantasia's Back to Me Tour, LaBelle was his backing vocalist, and she performed duets with him as a part of his set list.[26]
2011–2018: Record contract
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LaBelle signed a record deal in 2011 with L.A. Reid's company Epic in a partnership with Pharrell Williams' I Am Other and Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings.[7] Dupri and Williams became interested in LaBelle after watching her YouTube covers, which led to Dupri contacting her.[4] Like Wright and Hilson had before, they acted as mentors for LaBelle.[8] She first met Williams when she was 17, while backstage at a concert by his band N.E.R.D., and told him he would produce her album one day.[7] On May 1, 2012, LaBelle released the five-track sampler Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle, which was distributed to record companies.[27] It was also made available on her SoundCloud account.[28]
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LaBelle performing at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle in October 2013
The sampler was promoted with the singles "Sexify" and "What Do We Got To Lose?".[29][30] "Sexify" peaked at number 23 on the Adult R&B Songs and at number 89 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard charts.[31][32] In a 2018 Billboard article, Natalie Maher referred to it as LaBelle's breakthrough single.[33] LaBelle said the sampler resembled the sound for her debut studio album, which she described as "feel-good texture music" with a "throwback-but-new feel".[34] Although her debut album was reportedly set for a 2012 release, later being delayed to 2013,[35] it was ultimately never released.[8]
At the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards, LaBelle received the Soul Train Centric Award and performed a tribute to Aretha Franklin and Teena Marie with Fantasia.[36] She sang at the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans and BET's Music Matters showcase, which was held over the weekend of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.[37][38] The non-album single, "Lolita", was released in May 2013,[39] and a digital set of remixes and instrumentals of the song was made available a month earlier.[40] The single reached number seven on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and number 264 on the Russian airplay chart Tophit.[41][42]
In 2013 LaBelle was featured on Brian Cross's single "Shot Gun" on his album Pop Star – The Album,[43][44] and provided background vocals for Nelly's seventh studio album M.O.[45] In October, she was the opening act for JoJo's The Agápē Tour,[46][47] and appeared in the music video for her single "André" on her mixtape Agápē.[48] LaBelle was also a dancer in the 24-hour music video for Williams' 2013 single "Happy".[49] Throughout the day-long video, Williams dances with people in several Los Angeles locations.[50][51] In 2014, she was featured with JoJo on the hidden track "Freq" on Williams' second studio album G I R L.[52][53]
LaBelle reunited with Heard in 2017 during the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Heard said she was going through a "dark period", and he believed she had given up on her music career when her singles underperformed.[19]
Death and aftermath
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On January 31, 2018, LaBelle and her partner (initially misidentified as her husband), retired NBA player Rasual Butler,[54] died in a single vehicle car crash in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, after he lost control of his Range Rover on Ventura Boulevard and hit a curb. The car flipped twice before coming to rest.[54] Before the crash, which occurred at 2:25 a.m. Pacific Time, Butler was driving two to three times over the speed limit.[54] They both died instantly from "multiple traumatic injuries".[55] According to an autopsy report, Butler had methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana in his system and a blood alcohol level of 0.118.[56] LaBelle had a blood alcohol level of 0.144 and methamphetamine and amphetamine in her system at the time of the incident.[56][57]
While multiple reports at the time of the incident referred to Butler as LaBelle's husband,[58] her obituaries and her official website clarified that they were not married.[59] On February 3, 2018, Butler's daughter from a past relationship, Raven, held a joint memorial service at Potter's House, a Christian church in Los Angeles. LaBelle and Butler had both been members of the church. The memorial was streamed online.[60] An individual service was held for LaBelle on February 24 at Garfield High School.[1] Her mother provided a $10,000 scholarship under her daughter's name to a University of Southern California student with an art major.[61]
In February 2018, Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox released two tracks – "Scumbag" and "Stereo" – by LaBelle.[62][63] The same month, Heard expressed interest in making available unreleased material that he had recorded with her.[19] A posthumous extended play (EP), Love to the Moon, was released on September 7, 2018. The five songs were donated by their producers: Williams, Midi Jones, Sam Hook, and Tom Strahle. JoJo included dedications to LaBelle on her social media for a week.[64] A trailer for the EP was released on LaBelle's Vevo account on September 11, 2018.[65] Proceeds from the EP were donated to other yearly scholarships.[61]
Discography
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Sampler
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Title Album details List of songs
Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri Present Leah LaBelle
Released: May 1, 2012
Label: Epic (88725 40238 2)
Released for record companies
Track listing[66]
"So Hot"
"Sexify"
"Make Me Get Up"
"What Do We Got To Lose?"
"Mr. Scissors"
Extended play
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Title EP details List of songs
Love to the Moon
Released: September 7, 2018
Label: Leah Labelle
Posthumous release
Track listing[64]
"Sun"
"Made Man"
"Something About the Cold"
"Lost Angels"
"Orange Skies"
Singles as a lead artist
List of charity singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
Dance
Club
[41] US
Adult R&B
[31] US
R&B/Hip-Hop
[32] RUS
[42]
"Sexify" 2012 — 23 89 — Pharrell Williams and Jermaine Dupri
Present Leah LaBelle
"What Do We Got To Lose?"[30] — — — —
"Lolita" 2013 7 — — 264 Non-album single
"—" denotes items which failed to chart or were not released in that country.
Other appearances
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Title Year Album
"Betcha by Golly, Wow"[9] 2004 American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics
"Christmas Time"[15] Christmas in the Northwest, Vol. 7.
"Silent Night"[14]
(with Lisa Leuschner) Sing Me Home
"Angel"[25]
(with Kumasi) 2009 The One
"Shot Gun"[44]
(with Brian Cross) 2013 Pop Star – The Album
"Freq"[52]
(with Pharrell Williams and JoJo) 2014 G I R L
Filmography
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Year Show Role Notes
2000–2002 Caught in the Middle[1] Herself
2004 American Idol[6] Herself (finalist) Season 3
2008 American Idol Rewind[24] Herself (finalist)
Stage
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Year Production Role
1998–2003 Black Nativity[1] Unknown
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Bengali cuisine is the culinary style of Bengal, a region encompassing Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, as well as the Barak Valley in Assam. The cuisine is known for its varied use of flavours including mustard oil, as well as its desserts. There is a strong emphasis on rice as a staple, with fish traditionally the most common protein. Freshwater fish are preferred to seafish, although barramundi, known as bhetki, is also common. Although less popular than fish, Bengalis have eaten a variety of meats since pre-colonial times, ranging from pigs and deer to hedgehogs and turtles. In more recent times, lentils have begun to form a significant part of the diet. This photograph shows a serving of pabda jhaal, a type of Bengali fish curry.
Photograph credit: Nilanjan Sasmal