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Leona Naess
Leona Kristina Naess (also spelt Næss) (born 31 July 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. She released her debut album, Comatised, in March 2000, which produced the single "Charm Attack" (Adult Top 40 #29).
Naess was raised in London, the daughter of Swedish interior designer Filippa Kumlin D'Orey and Norwegian mountaineer and businessman Arne Næss Jr. She attended the Purcell School in Hertfordshire, studying music composition, and later graduated from New York University with a degree in anthropology. Naess began her music career performing in New York City venues and released her first album, Comatised, in 2000.
Naess has two children and maintains a close relationship with her ex-stepmother, Diana Ross, and her former stepsisters.
Naess was raised in London. She is the daughter of Filippa Kumlin D'Orey, a Swedish interior designer, and the late Arne Næss Jr., a Norwegian mountaineer and business magnate, who was of Norwegian and German descent. She has two full siblings; an older brother, Christoffer, and a sister, Katinka, from that marriage. Her great-uncle was the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss. Naess was 7 years old when her parents divorced in 1982. She attended school in London's Chelsea area while growing up, and later attended the Purcell School in Hertfordshire, where she studied music composition. Her father married African-American entertainer and global music sensation Diana Ross in 1986 and had two boys, her half-brothers Ross Naess and Evan Ross. Naess would often travel to their Connecticut home, where she was close with her stepmother and stepsisters Chudney Ross, Rhonda Ross Kendrick, and actress Tracee Ellis Ross. Her father and Ross divorced in 2000, and Naess also has two other half-brothers, Nicklas and Louis Naess, from her father's subsequent marriage to Camilla Astrup.
A paternal aunt to Naess' mother Filippa Kumlin was Elsa Kumlin, married Crafoord, and grand mother to Swedish singer/song writer Wille Crafoord, making the two pop stars second cousins.
Naess received her first guitar at the age of 14, a gift from her mother. The first song she learned to play was "The Cross" by Prince. She soon began writing her own songs. In addition to Julie Andrews in the musicals Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, her early influences were 1980s British rock. Naess soon found inspiration in the contemporary singer-songwriters Tracy Chapman, Sinéad O'Connor, and Edie Brickell, as well as in Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Her other early musical influences include Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon.
At the age of 18, Naess moved to New York City to study music at New York University, she later switched her major, receiving a degree in anthropology. A resident of Greenwich Village, she began performing with her guitar at open mics and was soon performing regularly in coffeehouses, bars and clubs like The Bitter End around Lower Manhattan, even busking at times. She appeared on a reality TV show on Channel 4 in 1993 called The Next Big Thing.
A friend, who was an intern at Sony Records, invited an executive to see Naess perform. Soon, a number of record companies were interested in signing her. She signed with producer Scott Litt's record label, Outpost Records, at the age of 22, shortly after graduating from NYU.
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Leona Naess
Leona Kristina Naess (also spelt Næss) (born 31 July 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. She released her debut album, Comatised, in March 2000, which produced the single "Charm Attack" (Adult Top 40 #29).
Naess was raised in London, the daughter of Swedish interior designer Filippa Kumlin D'Orey and Norwegian mountaineer and businessman Arne Næss Jr. She attended the Purcell School in Hertfordshire, studying music composition, and later graduated from New York University with a degree in anthropology. Naess began her music career performing in New York City venues and released her first album, Comatised, in 2000.
Naess has two children and maintains a close relationship with her ex-stepmother, Diana Ross, and her former stepsisters.
Naess was raised in London. She is the daughter of Filippa Kumlin D'Orey, a Swedish interior designer, and the late Arne Næss Jr., a Norwegian mountaineer and business magnate, who was of Norwegian and German descent. She has two full siblings; an older brother, Christoffer, and a sister, Katinka, from that marriage. Her great-uncle was the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss. Naess was 7 years old when her parents divorced in 1982. She attended school in London's Chelsea area while growing up, and later attended the Purcell School in Hertfordshire, where she studied music composition. Her father married African-American entertainer and global music sensation Diana Ross in 1986 and had two boys, her half-brothers Ross Naess and Evan Ross. Naess would often travel to their Connecticut home, where she was close with her stepmother and stepsisters Chudney Ross, Rhonda Ross Kendrick, and actress Tracee Ellis Ross. Her father and Ross divorced in 2000, and Naess also has two other half-brothers, Nicklas and Louis Naess, from her father's subsequent marriage to Camilla Astrup.
A paternal aunt to Naess' mother Filippa Kumlin was Elsa Kumlin, married Crafoord, and grand mother to Swedish singer/song writer Wille Crafoord, making the two pop stars second cousins.
Naess received her first guitar at the age of 14, a gift from her mother. The first song she learned to play was "The Cross" by Prince. She soon began writing her own songs. In addition to Julie Andrews in the musicals Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, her early influences were 1980s British rock. Naess soon found inspiration in the contemporary singer-songwriters Tracy Chapman, Sinéad O'Connor, and Edie Brickell, as well as in Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Her other early musical influences include Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon.
At the age of 18, Naess moved to New York City to study music at New York University, she later switched her major, receiving a degree in anthropology. A resident of Greenwich Village, she began performing with her guitar at open mics and was soon performing regularly in coffeehouses, bars and clubs like The Bitter End around Lower Manhattan, even busking at times. She appeared on a reality TV show on Channel 4 in 1993 called The Next Big Thing.
A friend, who was an intern at Sony Records, invited an executive to see Naess perform. Soon, a number of record companies were interested in signing her. She signed with producer Scott Litt's record label, Outpost Records, at the age of 22, shortly after graduating from NYU.