Michelle Leonard is a British singer and songwriter, now based in Berlin. Leonard has written and co-written multiple songs for singles and albums with platinum and gold status. She's internationally known for her work with AURORA and Paul van Dyk, as well as for her collaboration as Solamay with Robin Schulz. As a songwriter she is signed to BMG Rights Management.
Biography
Leonard grew up in Germany where she attended British schools. EMI Music Publishing signed her when she was 17. As an artist, Leonard released her first single with 16 which was a cover version of Twin Peak´s "Are We Falling". Leonard's first songs included "Feel So Perfect" which was used for a pan-European C&A advertising campaign that went on for three years, with different films around the song. "Feel So Perfect" was released by Cape featuring Michelle Leonard and became a radio hit. Many of her co-written songs were used in advertisements such as Axe, RMS, Ford Ka and Vodafone Germany. Michelle Leonard is responsible for multiple hits of national and international artists. Some of her biggest achievements are AURORA's "Running with the Wolves", "Rooftop" by Nico Santos and "Love Is You" by Thomas Godoj. In 2005 Leonard worked on the song "Instant Replay" with Such a Surge which was released on their album "Alpha". She was the performance and music director for the "German Theatre Abroad" project in New York and directed the musical "Electric Society", which was staged on 12 November 2005 in Cologne, Germany. In 2009, she was a judge on a German casting television show named Popstars and released her debut album"Fragile". Since 2005, Leonard is a lecturer at the Popakademie, the Columbia College Chicago, and at the SRH Hochschule der populären Künste in Germany for Songwriting. In 2011, Leonard started the co-publishing company "DOLSIRA" with Universal Music Publishing, Germany, which in 2018 was followed by the edition "EERA" in cooperation with BMGRights Management. In 2015 she started her own artist project "Solamay" which has won platinum status several times.
