A native of Greater Manchester, Kiran Leonard was raised in a musical household with multiple guitar-playing siblings and a father who was formerly a professional musician and worked in radio.
Leonard had begun playing mandolin by age five and graduated to the larger guitar at eight, around the time he started writing short, classical-type pieces. By the time he was 13, Leonard was uploading his work to music-sharing sites. The precocious teen played over 20 instruments on his debut LP, ‘Bowler Hat Soup’, a spontaneous, sometimes rambling set of experimental pop released in 2013.
The self-released ‘Abandoning Noble Goals EP’ followed in 2015. Leonard introduced his sophomore album with a 16-minute lead single (“Pink Fruit”) before releasing the full-length Grapefruit in the spring of 2016.
This was followed a year later with ‘Derevaun Seraun’, a set of five movements for voice, piano, and string trio, each inspired by a different literary work.
Early in 2018, Leonard released ‘A Bit of Violence with These Old Engines’, this was followed by ‘Western Culture’ in October 2018.
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