Lebo M
LEBO M Broadway: The Lion King (Additional Music & Lyrics, Additional Vocal Score, Vocal Arrangements, Choral Director). Lebo M is known as the "voice and spirit of The Lion King." Once a teenage singer in Soweto, the GRAMMY Award-winner and Tony nominee's music brings audiences to tears with hauntingly inspiring African rhythms and melodies. Lebo's talents have been hailed by the worldwide press in superlatives that might describe the most delightfully poetic of musical deities. Since his arrival in America, Lebo has attracted music industry giants such as Quincy Jones, Jimmy Cliff and Hans Zimmer as mentors, allies and collaborators. Lebo has performed on and produced four albums: Rhythm of the Pride Lands (Disney), Deeper Meaning (Gallo) and The Lion King (Japanese, Hamburg cast recordings). Other credits include the feature films The Power of One, Back on the Block and Listen Up with Quincy Jones; Outbreak; Congo; Born to Be Wild; Long Nights' Journey Into Day (which was nominated for an Academy Award); Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis (collaboration with Hans Zimmer); as well as the Disney television special People. He has made many public performances worldwide, including Kthimi: The Return in Kosovo with Vanessa Redgrave, Euro Disney in France and most recently in Hyde Park, London, for the BBC. Bio as of July, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Production: The Lion King - April, 1998 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)