Leigh Ann Phillips is a southern Colorado singer-songwriter who is also working to explore the healing potential of sound. Besides her extensive formal education in piano and voice, Leigh Ann is a trained massage therapist and certified Sound Healer who uses her voice and quartz crystal bowls in her bodywork and healing sessions. Leigh Ann works with both individual clients and groups, incorporating education, music and sound in these sessions. She views music not just as "entertainment", poetry, or inspiration, but also as a path and tool to greater awareness and self-healing. Read more about Leigh Ann's work in this area in the Mission and Sound Healing links above.

In the recording world, Leigh Ann broke out with the release of her 2004 debut CD, Just Over Those Mountains. The title track won the Silverton Jubilee Songwriting Competition that year as well as a songwriting award in England. Her compositions are a dynamic blend of piano-based thought-provoking pop, folk, and "orchestral Americana" flavored with a bit of jazz. Expanding her musical palette even further, in 2007 she released Journey Into the Mind, a beautiful guided meditation CD featuring piano, vocal toning, and the hypnotic sound of the crystal bowls.

Leigh Ann is currently back in the recording studio with Alamosa, Colorado producer and musician extraordinaire Don Richmond working on her second singer-songwriter album of original songs. Once again there are a wide range of musical influences which will make this a diverse and stimulating album, with a strong Celtic thread running through several of the songs.

Leigh Ann's lyrics are often inspired by the dramatic surroundings of her home in the foothills of the spectacular Sangre de Cristo range. The rural beauty and vast expanse of the San Luis Valley at her doorstep provides a buffer from the frantic media clutter of modern-day life. When not working at home in this secluded retreat, Leigh Ann speaks and performs often throughout southern Colorado, northern New Mexico, and elsewhere - please explore this website to learn much more!

New! For information about the powerful, positive effect that Leigh Ann's sound healing work is having on her clients, see What People Are Saying.

New! Read about Leigh Ann's extensive travels and sound healing learning experiences during 2007... see The Quest.

See what critics are saying about Leigh Ann's music:

"Leigh Ann has a remarkable voice. She'll break your heart with the purity and simplicity of her ballads, and the next moment have you rocking with the vigor and earthiness of her jazz and rockabilly. Like all great singers, whatever the genre, she knows how to tell a story."
– Michael Apted, director of "Enigma", "Gorillas in the Mist" and "Coal Miner's Daughter"

"Leigh Ann is as natural and exciting as the Great American Landscape. Like Hemingway, she can mirror with beautiful accuracy what is so precious to those who will only take notice. She pulls me in every time."
– Lee Roy Parnell, guitarist and singer-songwriter

"...sophisticated, soothing and inspiring..."
– Mark Steele, Telluride Watch