Leigh Blond

Bert de Ruijter (born 1952), known as Leigh Blond, is a Dutch composer, singer and songwriter.

Career

At the age of five, during visiting his aunts, he was introduced to the music of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. Six years later he bought his first album, I Feel Like a Millionaire by Champion Jack Dupree. At the age of 14 he started to learn play the guitar and at the age of 16 he started to write songs lyrics. During his career he wrote about 100 texts and some of them were used by other artists such as Boz Scaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Dusty Springfield, Bill Wyman, Chris Farlowe, Long John Baldry, Paul Rodgers and others. Between 1975 and 1981 he played the piano in the Boogie Woogie and Blues Band, which recorded two albums and gave concerts mainly in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. In 1990 he started to sing (he made a vocal attempts before, but discarded they because of trying to focus on playing the piano and guitar).

Discography

• River of Tears (1982)
• Bluesness (1992)
• See Me Thru (1999)
• Tribute To PCL (2004)
• Blueside of the Road (2006)
• Subtle Ways of Blues (2007)

External links

• Official site of Leigh Blond