Sarah McLeod (musician)
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Sarah Mcleod at One For The Road benefit concert. Enmore Theatre NSW 23rd November 2015
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| Birth name | Sarah Yvette McLeod |
| Also known as | Sammie Scream |
| Origin | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1994–present |
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| Associated acts | The Superjesus, Black Diamond Express, Screaming Bikini |
| Website | sarahmcleod |
Sarah Yvette McLeod (born 1 February 1973) is an Australian singer-songwriter/guitar player and front woman of rock band, The Superjesus. The group won three ARIA Music Awards and they shipped over 300,000 units during their career. McLeod's debut solo album, Beauty Was a Tiger, was released in September 2005 and peaked in the top 40 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's first single, "Private School Kid" , a duet with The Living End's Chris Cheney (July 2005) also reached the top 40, on the related ARIA Singles Chart. In October 2007 McLeod was described as an "iconic Aussie rock chick" by Alison Stieven-Taylor.
Sarah Yvette McLeod, was born on 1 February 1973, to parents Don and Rosemary. She grew up in Adelaide with her older sister, Leah McLeod (born 1971), a former TV presenter.
McLeod attended St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and started singing in her late teens. In 1990 she commenced a university course doing a bachelor of arts at Flinders University in Adelaide. 3 months into the course she went on a holiday with friends to Bali, where she was invited to join a Balinese band. Although being her first time on stage , she took to it like a duck to water and played with the band every night during her visit. McLeod later remembered "I could already play a bit of guitar by then but did little more than sing and play to my buddies at home." Upon her return to Adelaide , armed with a new passion for performing, she quit uni and formed her first group, Fallen Down Monster (FDM). She displayed her rock-chick characteristics and honed her vocal and guitar skills, and fun-loving, energetic stage presence. FDM performed indie band covers, McLeod wrote original tracks which were not recorded.
Late in 1994 she joined Chris Tennent to form an indie guitar rock band, Hell's Kitchen, which later became The Superjesus. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described McLeod's "captivating voice and melodic rhythm guitar." In May 1996 the group issued their debut four-track extended play, Eight Step Rail, with all the tracks co-written by McLeod with her band mates. Jonathan Lewis of AllMusic noticed McLeod's singing: "Sounding like a cross between Liz Phair and Catatonia's Cerys Matthews, McLeod's voice was a major drawcard; strong, confident and rarely lapsing into the girlishness that characterized some of The Superjesus' contemporaries."
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