Artist description Best known as one-quarter of Canada’s top female a cappella group Malaika, Lee Hayes is an award- winning songwriter and a gifted solo performer. Her stage experience is extensive; With Malaika, Hayes has toured Canada, the US, and the UK in the last four years. Malaika has one CD, ‘Malaika Live’, which has independently sold over 4,000 copies. Malaika’s video, filmed in 1996, features Malaika singing the Lee Hayes song, ‘What Is Love?’. Malaika will begin recording their second CD the summer of 2000. Hayes’ passionate writing made her a winner of the 1995 "Songs From The Heart" songwriting contest, sponsored by SOCAN and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals. Hayes’ forte is her ability to write great hooks and poignant, believable lyrics. Her song ‘When A Woman’ inspired film-maker Tracy Bacenas to create a documentary of Malaika, called ‘Angel’. This documentary has been aired internationally several times on the Women’s Television Network. "When A Woman’ is performed by women’s choirs all over the world. It is her unique pop-folk writing that brought Hayes to Nashville this year via New York, where entertainment lawyer Charles Sanders first heard her perform and decided to introduce her to the music community in Nashville. Hayes spent two weeks there in March, meeting with publishers and writing with Robert Jetton, a well-known artist with several recordings, including a duet with Emmylou Harris. Jetton will be featured on Lee Hayes’ upcoming CD, performing their duet ‘Just Enough’. Hayes will be recording with Canadian producer James Stephens. An eclectic writer, Hayes finds inspiration in strange places. Her show tune ‘In Vienna’ (a song Hayes calls "the missing number from the Sound of Music") received national attention on CBC radio and caught the interest of singer/songwriter Elizabeth Von Trapp, grand-daughter of Maria and Captain Von Trapp. Ms. Von Trapp is hoping it will be included in an upcoming artist’s compilation of the Sound of Music, to be produced by Livingston Taylor. Hayes is also the producer and host of the annual showcase, The Ottawa Gems In Concert, featuring the best of Ottawa’s female singer/songwriters. Lee Hayes grew up in Ottawa, Canada, a member of an eccentric and creative family.

Music Style Pop

Group Members Lee Hayes - vocals, piano

Instruments vocals, piano

Press Reviews Lee Hayes is a formidable talent...excellent original songs. Hayes’ true-life tales and charming stage presence are quite commanding" - Allan Wigney, Ottawa XPRESS

Location Ottawa, ON - Canada

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