Behind the music

Bio

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Leif grew up in Saanichton BC as a young boy with many gifts. Despite his medical disorders, he continued on to find out what GarageBand was at the age of five on his parents' iMac, which is the one he still uses today to record on. He experimented with the loop libraries and built in microphone and of course: made completely horrible, terrible music. It was about 5 years later that this horrible, terrible music thing made a drastic change. Leif's sister had made friends over the years at their parents new house just down the road after they had moved from the suite above a shop that Leif grew up in. His sister's friends had a father who would go on to influence Leif's music making drastically. One day, her friend came to the door with a Fender Nashville Power Tele and gave it to Leif, which he practiced on for a couple years and still records with today. Leif eventually got guitar lessons from Mike Preston down at the Brentwood School of Music, but mostly taught himself how to play. After some time of trying out recording, Leif decided to start a long but humble career in music by creating a one-man acoustic folk project, From Here To Sidney, named after the town he loved most on the island. He released the "Airliner" EP with Leafing Music, which was embraced by his family and encouraged him to keep on making more. Leif now resides in beautiful Saanichton, BC with his parents, sister and their dog Neelah and has a home recording setup in his bedroom where he is currently recording the follow-up to his two 2017 releases, titled "Elevations". He hopes you will enjoy every bit of his music as much as he enjoys making it.