Today we’d like to introduce you to Laura Cheadle. They and their team shared their story with us below:
If you’re longing for some real music that you can feel in your heart, lyrics that speak to your soul, and a live performance with the power to blow the roof off the sky, you can stop right here. If you’re tired of all the staged choreography, blinding light shows, capes, costumes, lip-synching, and auto-tunes that seems to have taken over live performances, you have found a place to rest, refresh, and renew. Welcome to the world of Laura Cheadle. Along with her Family Band, she has opened for some of the biggest names in the business and won numerous awards, including “Best Indie Jazz/Blues Band” at WXPN-sponsored Tri-State Indie Music Awards. She has performed on stages from NYC to London, appeared on 6ABC’s “Tuned In” as the very first viewer’s choice, the “NBC 10” Show, and the National reality show “Next Great Family Band.” Laura was recently featured in Curve Magazine, named one of “100 Women We Love” in Go Magazine, and declared a “Super Woman” in South Jersey Magazine for her active Charity Work.
As Traveler Guitar’s newest Brand Ambassador and a recent distribution deal with So Bold Ent/Sony Orchard of Sony Music, her solo career is starting to explode, performing a set at NAMM2022, filming specialized performance and educational video segments for Next Level Guitar’s site, and having recently been honored with the Musician of the Decade award for her body of work and trend-setting style. One of her original compositions was recently included in a popular TV show, and she participated in a Philadelphia Film project with a seamlessly acted feature role in the short film “Ether.”
Never one to measure herself according to the trends of the times or the female singer “flavor of the month,” Laura has carved out her own lane since she began performing as a child, and she has done it the old-fashioned way, on pure talent. Gifted with a voice powerful enough to shake rafters and tender enough to navigate the entire range of the emotional scale, Laura Cheadle is a singer commanding more than just a listen or a look. Her albums, like her concerts, are an experience. Inseparable from the truth of the songs she writes, the raw emotion that tears out of her reaches deep into your heart with the kind of performance her audiences remember long after the last notes have been played.
Laura Cheadle has opened for/shared the stage with The Jonas Brothers, Sister Hazel, The Spin Doctors, Average White Band, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Kasim Sultan, John Oates/Hall and Oates, Terrance Simien, Peter Tork of The MONKEES, Garland Jeffreys, Constantine Maroulis, Ryan Cabrera, Derek Forbes, The Stars From The Commitments, John Sebastian, Marc Broussard, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, and many more.
IG: @lauraCheadleMusic
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I have always stuck to what I wanted to do and the music I wanted to make. I never ever let anyone change me. I feel like that is the most generous thing you can do for your soul.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am a self-proclaimed ‘Funky soulstress.’ I have been touring the world with my family band and appearing on television shows across the globe. I make music with a meaning. I am proud that I have my family by my side and create music with a purpose. My latest album ‘Mannequin’ is out January 1st with So Bold Ent/Sony Orchard. It’s a collection of four years of my heart and soul. I’m so proud of it! I also just appeared on/won the game show ‘Raid The Cage’ on CBS, where I’m representing strong women everywhere! Go watch that at cbs.com or on-demand/paramount plus.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
I know the music business is ever-changing. However, I have always maintained my artistic integrity. I’m all about moving with the times but keeping your head together at the same time!
Contact Info:
- Website: Lauracheadle.com
- Instagram: Instagram.com/lauracheadlemusic
- Facebook: Facebook.com/lauracheadle
- Twitter: Twitter.com/lauracheadle
- Youtube: YouTube.com/lauracheadle
- SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/lauracheadle
Image Credits
Robert Szatmari
