Leo Bowers

“I do the music thing and I like doing it. I just do it in a way I'm comfortable with. If you like what you hear I'm glad and thankful. It's good to know that someone is listening because truthfully you're the ones I do it for and for whom it is designed.”


Leo Bowers was born as Leonard W. Bowers Jr. in Columbus Ohio in the year 1954. If you want to speak about his music, it is important to not just tell that he has a degree in music theory but also the many different things he experienced in his life and made him the person and musician he is now. Leo’s youth was marked by parties, drugs and alcohol due to the influence of negative people around him and he was even imprisoned for six years. The reason: felonious assault. He was definitely one of the bad guys you don’t want to deal with. That changed after he got spiritually reborn in prison. Leo started to live this life differently but also said that he made important experiences to now know where he came from to see where he wants to go.
You will find all these things and the view of Leo Bowers on the things in this world in his songs but also in his autobiographic texts he publishes on his website. With his music he wants to reach the sixth sense of his listeners and express his soul. The songs are written to be unique and carry the main elements of Leo’s music: common sense, common courtesy, mutual respect, respect for rights and beliefs. His aim is to create art against the commercial way of thinking. He wants to show the real human instead of advertising something wrong.
That is the reason why you can find his songs on free music communities like Jamendo. The only money the artist makes is over plays on his YouTube channel.
It is difficult to describe the style of the songs. Leo himself said that he wanted to write music to dance to like he did in the private parties he had as a teenager. On the other side it is also an expression of deep emotions. Leo Bowers grew up with Soul, R’n’B and Acid Rock. He played nearly all thinkable styles except for mainstream music and would now describe his songs as Rhythm and Blues. He likes the writers and composers of the 19th century but also Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.
Meditation is also an important topic. Somehow you can see Leo Bowers music as meditation or use it to meditate. It will help you to find realization about going your own path and doing the right things in your life.
For live shows the artist hires other musicians to perform with. But he could not imagine to stay together with one fixed group. The reason is that he does not want to share his life with other musicians and also because he is not tolerant for different personalities mixing into the music how he said it himself.
All his songs are recorded by Leo alone in his own house. With using home-recording he wants to show the professional recording studios that he can do their job alone without all the things they have. This way of music production can also be heard in his songs. The listener can feel that it was recorded where the artist felt safe and calm.
The dream of Leo Bowers is to have one day a hit single and “be big”. For now he said he is working and learning. This progress started in 2007 when he released his debut album “Up front and real”. Now he reached the point where he won the Akademia award in the category “Best Blues/Rock Song” for his track “Bitter Sweet”.
For some people Leo Bowers might be the inspiring saviour of real music but for others just a crazy old man trapped in his dreams. Form your own opinion!
Now you will hear the award winning songs “Bitter Sweet”!

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