Lady Leshurr
Born to parents from the Caribbean Isle of Saint Kitts, her first foray was into poetry and writing at age six but she decided that writing music would bring her to a wider audience, releasing her first mixtape at age fourteen. In her words:
I grew up around music. My mum used to play a lot of reggae like Sister Nancy and Bob Marley around the house so basically, when I was around six, I was messing about and doing my own little raps and songs. My family are all rappers and singers anyway so I was always involved in it from a young age.
— Lady Leshurr, 2011
Leshurr played one of the lead female roles in Vertigo Films' 2009 film 1 Day.
She won second place in the Best Female category of the Official Mixtape Awards 2011. To complement the music releases, she has designed a range of merchandise, the "Friggin L" clothing line named after her 2011 mixtape Friggin L.
In 2016, she won the MOBO Award, celebrating excellence in black music, for Best Female Act.
In 2019 Leshurr performed at the Nicki Wrld Tour in London and Manchester as a special guest for Trinidadian American rapper Nicki Minaj.
Born to parents from the Caribbean Isle of Saint Kitts, her first foray was into poetry and writing at age six but she decided that writing music would bring her to a wider audience, releasing her first mixtape at age fourteen. In her words:
I grew up around music. My mum used to play a lot of reggae like Sister Nancy and Bob Marley around the house so basically, when I was around six, I was messing about and doing my own little raps and songs. My family are all rappers and singers anyway so I was always involved in it from a young age.
— Lady Leshurr, 2011
Leshurr played one of the lead female roles in Vertigo Films' 2009 film 1 Day.
She won second place in the Best Female category of the Official Mixtape Awards 2011. To complement the music releases, she has designed a range of merchandise, the "Friggin L" clothing line named after her 2011 mixtape Friggin L.
In 2016, she won the MOBO Award, celebrating excellence in black music, for Best Female Act.
In 2019 Leshurr performed at the Nicki Wrld Tour in London and Manchester as a special guest for Trinidadian American rapper Nicki Minaj.
