Ciara/Leah is a Toronto-born soul singer-songwriter and classically-trained pianist inspired by the vocal sensibility of Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha Franklin and the politically-charged realism of Gil Scott Heron, Nina Simone, and Curtis Mayfield. She has been songwriting and performing internationally for the past several years and is currently collaborating with a group of Toronto gospel and jazz musicians for her debut live-off-the-floor EP, "Love Money", to be released this winter.