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Kaleigh Baker

Kaleigh Baker's debut EP, The Weight of It All, was officially released on May 6, 2011. The full album is available for sale on her website (www.kaleighbaker.co m) cdbaby.com, iTunes, Amazon Digital, and more!

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Hometown	Queens, NY
Genres	Blues, Rock
Band Members	Kaleigh Baker
Achievements	» more
Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Manager Brian Harkenrider kaleighbakermusic@gmail.com 9175681158
# Years Experience Performing Live:	5
# Live Perfomances Past Six-months:	75
Market Draw:	Orlando, FL: 351-400; New York, NY: 101-150
Venue History:	The Social - Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live - Orlando, FL House of Blues - Orlando, FL Tanqueray's - Orlando, FL BackBooth - Orlando, FL Lucky Jacks - New York, NY The Rock Shop - New York, NY Village Lantern - Manhattan , NY Spike HIll - Brooklyn, NY Pete's Candy Store - Brooklyn, NY Bell Book and Candle - New York, NY The Bitter End - New York, NY Common Grounds - New York, NY
Opener Experience:	Juliette Lewis
Similar Artists:	Adele; Janis Joplin; Amy Winehouse
Performing Rights Society:	BMI
Discography:	The Weight of It All EP—2011

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Hailing from a small valley in Western New York, Kaleigh Baker has risen to Central Florida prominence as a "blues-soul, rock and roll" artist......

'Her vocals dip into a low and resounding molasses-slow croon with as much ease as they ascend to...

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Specialty Finals Grand Prize Winner July 2011

"Ladies Love Cool Jams" Competition

Reached 20th in Best of Pop chart in 2014. In the top 20 for 1 week.

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Right now, the smoky amber of her whiskey is all that’s keeping Kaleigh Baker from running out the double doors and not stopping. It’s a chilly Friday night in December and the 21-year-old New York native eyes a growing crowd at the Social in downtown Orlando, near her home of almost two years. Kaleigh (pronounced Kay-lee) came to Florida to attend Full Sail, the vocational entertainment institute, to learn about the business of music and how to put on a show and she’s put it to use many times before – at coffeehouses, hookah bars, even her own school. But this is different. The Social is the center of gravity in Orlando’s music scene. It’s not a breeding ground; it’s a proving ground. She takes another hit of whiskey and heads out with her band.... “I couldn’t hear anything. I was in some weird zone,” says Baker. What happens after that moment is entirely unpredictable and nearly magical. With impeccable swagger, vocal chops as playful as Diane Schuur with a Patti Smith bent and backing musicians telekinetically linked to Baker’s every whim, she shrugs off the jitters and brings the house down. Behind the enraptured masses and off to the side sits Baker’s benefactor, Alexandra Sarton, that inescapable invisible hand of Orlando’s female music scene, grinning knowingly and nodding her head. “At Full Sail, one of the [projects] was to do a live event for charity. We find the bands to book, the venue, the sponsors; we do the engineering ourselves, cooking, cleaning … the entire thing. My class asked me to play, so I did. I invited Alexandrah [Sarton] and Tonya [Combs] to sell their jewelry at the event. They heard me and that was that,” says Baker. Now, almost exactly a month removed from the Social show, Baker is walking to lunch downtown when she’s stopped by a skinny, disheveled man asking for a cigarette. “I’m not a bum or anything,” the man says. “They won’t let me leave this corner.” Baker asks no questions. She dishes out a handful of Marlboros, smiles and says, “You better fall in love with that corner, then.” She should know – he’s standing in front of the Social.... Baker’s songs have the heartbeat of a musical purist, but lack any touch of pretension. “Old News,” for example, is jokingly referred to as “pop rocks” by the singer. “It’s definitely the poppiest thing I’ve done.” The midtempo ballad finds a mournful Baker running an exhausting gamut of emotion, from slow-strumming guilt over falling for the guy in the first place to shocking submission (“Of course if I had the choice I wouldn’t leave you, baby”), bafflingly low self-esteem (“Why are you still with me?”) and finally triumph. As Baker’s voice lifts skyward an octave or so, the song flips into a gospel-flavored revelation while an incendiary guitar provides moral support. And Baker calls this pop? Nothing’s simple in her sonic world.

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