Tina Leon
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Tina Leon, formerly known as Marie-Christine, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Montreal, Quebec. She began playing the piano at the age of five, performing at age twelve, and at age twenty landed a role in the music revue Generation Motown where she played hundreds of live shows. Her success in the revue opened up opportunities for working with artists such as Stevie Wonder, who is featured on her track, “Keep On Running,” and singing live on stage alongside Lionel Ritchie.
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Having already sung and collaborated with Stevie Wonder, DJ Champion and Garou under the artist name Marie-Christine Depestre, she now appears in a new light, more authentic and full of life than ever. In reference to the nickname given to her by her family and in homage to her maternal grandmother, this choice of a new stage name is a way for her to fully express her personality, to assert her art and thus to find a form of balance.
The concept for EP’s Push and Pull is partially inspired by what she describes as her “duality”— off the stage she is more shy and introspective, but when she performs she is able to let loose her “inner beast.” When reflecting on this new work’s intent, she says, “It takes some time to figure out what you want and don’t want. There comes a time when you ask yourself certain hard questions and you decide to take action towards what you truly want for your future. That is when you begin to bloom into who you want to be.”
Tina Leon uses her music to reconcile between the fluctuating nature of seemingly conflicting emotions, desires, likes and dislikes. Her work confronts the difficult questions we might ask ourselves: “Where am I in my life?”/“What do I want?”/“Who is the person I have become?”
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