If you want the formal bio, click here. If you're here because you want to know more about me, you're in the right place. Read on.

My name is Leanna (pronounced: Lee-Anna. Unless you're Chinese, in which case it's 李妍娜 Keith. My pronouns are she/they. I am a mixed-race, genderfluid, biracial, bisexual, creative being who is deeply in love with sound. 

I’ve been told many times that my work sounds like an alien planet. Or drugs. I’ve been told that my work is the wailing of my ancestors. The shamanistic ritual of transporting a space. But I certainly did not start there.

In 2016 I found myself at a musical impasse. I loved playing the flute, but I had all these ideas bubbling in my brain and I kept wondering why I was constantly being told I was only allowed to perform the works of the "masters". I nearly quit. Instead, I dug deep, and began to explore music on my own terms. 

To my immense joy, I discovered improvisation. I began to compose. I collaborated with friends. I learned how to use electronics to explore my sound-world. I began to tell stories with my music. 

I'm still exploring. You'll find me improvising not only with my flute, but with vocalizing, with movement, with words, with taiko. Oh yes, taiko takes up a great deal of my musical sphere these days too. 

I am interested in the space between play and creation with the audience. I am interested in ritual and the sacred ways we interact with ritual in music performance.  I am interested in queer joy. I am interested in diaspora joy.