Originally born Tyleah Smith, Queen Leelo is a deeply exciting artist that has broken out across the music scene recently. Her music is a fascinating and rich blend of a variety of genres, chief of which R&B and hip-hop. The sound itself is laidback and tells volumes about who Queen Leelo is, as an artist. A humble, and genuine spirit, Queen Leelo puts a strong focus on creating a safe space through her music, where people aren’t judged, and where they can begin to heal from their own personal traumas and negative emotions.
Her upcoming release, “High Vibr8tion”, is the perfect example of that. It focuses on being in your own element and encountering someone with a similar energy output to yours. In the artist’s own words, it’s about interacting with someone who enhances who you are as an artist, and as a person and creating a higher vibration.
A strong source of inspiration for Queen Leelo is the belief that what we manifest into the world comes back to us. Taking inspiration from her personal background, and her own “crazy” experiences, Queen Leelo tells those stories, while also encouraging her audience to tell their own.
Artist-wise, she takes inspiration from people like Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tezz the Rapper, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift. Though a new artist on the scene, her music has already been compared to some of these big names, including Rihanna, and Georgia Smith.
She had also worked with Sherwood Locket, Isaiah Haze, Swinger Studios, and Wizard of Oz Studios.
Queen Leelo’s purpose as an artist isn’t just to create powerful music, but also to bring healing and light into the world of her listeners. Her music is melodic and harmonious, seeking out energizing and transformative energies. Seeing art as more an expression of the self and of one’s true energy, Queen Leelo is drawing on her own experiences to create valuable, yet humble art, and send it into the world.