Ledisi with special guests Rahsaan Patterson and
Timothy Bloom will play Oakland's Fox Theater!

From her name to her music to her mission to the circuitous path that brought her to legendary Verve Records for her third album, Lost and Found, Ledisi is a galvanizing, all-natural wonder. Wherever she goes, she wows and astounds.

Three years in the making, the 16-track Lost and Found (for which Ledisi co-produced all of the songs with veterans Rex Rideout, Jamey Jaz and Mano Hanes, newcomer Lorenzo Johnson and longtime collaborator Sundra Manning) is the album destined to usher a deserving talent into some well-earned limelight. Overflowing with deeply touching songs of love and life, the CD cuts a swath through intimate snapshots of relationships that linger in the mind long after the last note has been sung.

From singing on Broadway and teaching voice in Berkeley to performing around the globe, having the guts to compose and manufacture her own soul-baring music, and the good fortune of being born in New Orleans (soul music central) to two fine singers (and a drummer for a step daddy to boot), Ledisi extends from roots any artist would proudly claim. Lost and Found marks the next level ascent of a trained, tried and true artist for whom the underground was a nurturing cocoon. Now watch this black