YolanDa Brown

Award Winning Saxophonist

United Kingdom

I am so impressed with Légère Signature reeds. It is such a luxury to play a reed that feels comfortable straight away and it is a great experience playing them on my Tenor, Alto and Soprano saxophones. They are so responsive, maintain my natural tone and play straight out of the box. A dream for a touring and recording saxophonist as you can be absolutely confident in your sound and consistency of the reed at any time. The Légère Signature reeds have given me one less thing to think about at set up… soaking, scraping and prepping are a thing of the past!

Life’s intended path is often affected by timing and sudden opportunity. The fortunes of YolanDa Brown, for example, although always driven by her talent, intelligence and facility to get things done, have at crucial moments offered up some unexpected options.

As a child, she’d tried piano, violin, drums, oboe and more before settling on saxophone as the instrument closest to her own musical voice. Later, as an academic, she notched up two masters degrees in Operations Management, began a PhD and learned Spanish to fluency, only then veering decisively back to music when her part-time gigs as interval entertainment on London’s comedy circuit blossomed into a first sell-out solo concert at the Mermaid Theatre in Blackfriars.

Now, a successful debut recording – 2012’s widely appreciated April Showers May Flowers – two consecutive Jazz MOBOs, one Urban Music Award and a heap of ecstatically received live shows further on, YolanDa has just created an entirely new musical genre all of her own in readiness for her second album, Love Politics War, due for release on Black Grape Records come June 16.