Sam Phillips (singer-songwriter)

Leslie Ann Phillips ( Glendale (California) , January 28 1962 ), better known by the name of Sam Phillips is anAMERICAN singer-songwriter .

Phillips start writing songs at an early age. In 1984 she made ​​her debut under her own name on a relipoplabel with Beyond Saturday Night. Only after she makes aRECORD in 1987 with the aptly titled The Turning she continues under the name of Sam, a nickname she had as a child, and take them away from her oldJOB and old label. The Turning, later re-released under its "new" name, is produced by T-Bone Burnett, which her ​​to a contract with Virgin and helps with whom she continues to work thereafter. Not only in artistic and click it, a few years later they enter into marriage.

Phillips left the ChristianMUSIC world, that they are stifling experience, a major step that many people do not understand. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhg65IhXOf4qLODauCJmPyok_4b88Q#Bron_gevraagd [source? ]] In 1988 appears The indiscribable Wow andTHREE years later Cruel Inventions released. Although God still plays a role in her lyrics, she now focuses to a wider audience. Cruel Inventions by a critic for example, recommended to fans of Natalie Merchant, REM and Elvis Costello, who makes a guest appearance.

When appears in Martinis & Bikinis 1994, her star has risen so far that she was nominated for a Grammy Award . Burnett producer, co-author of two songs and together with, among others, Colin Moulding ( XTC ) is part of the backing band. Coryfeeën as Peter Buck, Van Dyke Parks, Marc Ribot and Larry Taylor contribute.

Phillips is also inspired by the work of others. So it's not hard Beatles -influences to point, if only because a title as Strawberry Road and a cover of the Lennon Gimme Some Truth -number.

In 2005, Phillips released the album A Boot and a Shoe from a dreamy mostly acoustic album, with mysterious texts. Phillips music is also used in the US series Gilmore Girls .