Leona Naess是著名的Diana Ross前夫Arne Naess的女兒，她生于英國倫敦并在那里長到18歲才返回紐約，之后就在紐約大學學習音樂。她的音樂受到廣泛的影響，作為Indie Rock/Folk歌手，受到Joni Mitchell和Edie Brickell的影響是很自然的---尤其是同Edie如出一轍的聲線，聽了都讓人覺得像到不可思議，但同時她的音樂還被The Cure，David Bowie以及Joy Division所影響著。 在紐約的一些俱樂部演出之后，23歲的Leona出版了Comatised，并且Charm Attack還取得小小名氣，在2001年的時候她推出了I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll，這張專輯是在她同Eagle-Eye Cherry和David Gray的巡演間隙騰時間創作的，相比前一張，更加的陰暗了一點，但這張專輯發掘了她在音樂上更大的潛力，她聲名雀起，成為別具一格的Indie Rock/Folk女歌手，并被很多音樂人如Nina Gordon等賞識推崇。 2003年出版的同名專輯是她和Ethan Jones一起完成的，很是輕快可愛。 She's the daughter of Arne Naess, former husband of Supreme Diana Ross. Born and raised in England but presently based in New York, Leona Naess is an introspective singer/songwriter whose alternative pop-rock draws on influences ranging from Edie Brickell, Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell to the Cure, David Bowie and Joy Division. It's impossible to miss the similarity between Naess' voice and Brickell's; nonetheless, Brickell is only one of the many artists who has influenced Naess' work. Naess was in her teens when she started singing and writing songs, and she was 18 when she moved to New York to study music and anthropology at New York University. After doing her share of gigs at such Lower Manhattan clubs as CBGB and the Bitter End, a 23-year-old Naess signed with Outpost/MCA in 1998 and started recording her debut album, Comatised. That album was released in March 2000, and its first single, "Charm Attack," was used in Columbia/Phoenix Pictures' teen comedy film Whatever It Takes. Tours with Eagle-Eye Cherry and David Gray consumed Naess for most of the year, however she found time to compose another album. Her sophomore effort, I Tried to Rock You But You Would Only Roll was issued in June 2001 and portrayed a more upbeat Naess. The emotions were far more raw and dark on this album, but her musicianship sparked a new sophistication. Two years later, Naess joined producer Ethan Johns for a lovely self-titled effort.