After spending much of last year overseas, Leo Sayer is back in his adopted home country and busier than ever.
“I can’t explain it,” he said of his busy schedule, but he’s not complaining.
With 40 years’ experience in the music industry, Leo Sayer is one of the survivors of the music industry.
Hit-makers come and go in the fickle world of popular music, but Leo Sayer is a stayer, a powerhouse performer who is still captivating audiences globally. Not bad for a guy called Gerard who decided to leave his commercial art career in 1971 and follow his dream and passion of becoming a musican and song-writer.
He changed his name (his manager thought he looked like “Leo” the lion with his trademark mane of curly hair) and the rest is history.
Forty years on, Leo Sayer has sold millions of albums around the world and has had 20 worldwide top ten hits during his career, many of these self-penned, and he continues to entertain audiences with an amazing live show featuring his uniquely powerful and recognisable voice. After his first tour down under in the early ’70s, Leo fell in love with Australia and, in 2009, became an Australian citizen.
To celebrate four decades in the music business, Leo is touring throughout 2011, around Australia, Asia and New Zealand. Plans are also underway for tours of England and Europe later in the year.
This year’s show will be a look back over Leo’s forty year journey that has seen him win a Grammy, fill stadiums around the globe with his concerts and ride a wonderful roller coaster of career highs and lows in the crazy world of the music industry. Leo has come out smiling, with energy and enthusiasm to burn.
