Leon Olguin
Leon is an arranger, recording engineer and producer with four independent instrumental releases and numerous published and recorded compositions to his credit. He's a classically trained pianist with a BA in music theory and composition. He's had extensive experience as a studio musician, live performer, seminar leader, voice actor, and music minister/director. His song "White as Snow" (Maranatha! Music) reached the status of classic worship song faster than any song in the history of Contemporary Christian Music. With his wife Sheryl Paige he has engineered, arranged, and produced countless recordings for artists in the past 20 years.
Sheryl Paige
First, a bit about Sheryl Paige the artist:
As a singer/songwriter, Sheryl Paige has followed an unusual path, which began with a chance discovery in Costa Mesa California. As a young girl, Sheryl and her mother were leaving her Aunts apartment when they found an acoustic guitar that had been spray painted black and tossed in a dumpster outside the apartment building. Sheryl's mother rescued the guitar, stripped it down to bare wood, refinished it, then proceeded to teach Sheryl the few chords and strums she knew. Sheryl quickly mastered what her mother taught her and simply couldn't stop playing the guitar. Before long she was learning songs by ear, and writing her own music. She was a shy girl, reluctant to perform in front of others, and her mother would have to secretly hold the phone up to Sheryl's bedroom door so family and friends could hear Sheryl's playing. With encouragement and training from music teachers, her mother, and her grandmother (a former vaudeville star), Sheryl began performing at school, church and community functions through her teens and college years.
Her best college girlfriends believed in her songs so much that they paid for Sheryl's first demo recording, during which she met her future husband. That recording got the attention of executives at Maranatha! Music and they brought Sheryl in to record for their release Back to the Rock II. She co-wrote songs with the band Malcolm and the Mirrors, and formed her own band Liaison for performances in Southern California and for tours in the UK. Soon Sheryl's marriage and family life along with her successes in the business world limited her performances to a few short tours a year. But Sheryl found that her creative drive could not be quelled and new songs just kept coming. Over the last 15 years she has toured in the US, UK and the Czech Republic, shes independently released four recordings and produced and co-hosted a local arts television show called Session 31 that featured performing songwriters and focused on their creative process.
In 1998 Sheryl left the corporate world and went into business for herself so she would have the flexibility she needed to pursue opportunities presented to her in her music career. Since then she has received awards for both her songwriting and performance. Most recently, she was a finalist in the Suwanee Springfest Singer/Songwriter competition, finalist in the 2006 South Florida Folk Festival Songwriter competition, took 2nd place for Country in the 2005 Pacific Songwriting Competition, was a finalist for songwriter of the year in the 2005 Pacific Songwriting Competition, and was awarded an Artist Enhancement Grant by the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Currently, Sheryl is working on writing and recording songs for her next CD.
A bit of the shy girl still remains at the core of Sheryl's performances. A self-confessed non-diva, Sheryl forges a personal connection with her audiences, as if they are sitting together in the living room, laughing and talking over a cup of coffee. Sheryl's style can be best described as acoustic guitar based music that draws elements from folk, rock, country, classical and jazz, and is filled with pop-like musical and lyrical hooks that make for very memorable songs. Her voice is intimate, earthy and soulful.
And now a little about Sheryl Paige, the co-founder of SOLO Creative Media:
With her work as a performing and recording songwriter, along with her “day job,” Sheryl is not involved in the day to day running of SCM. However, she often takes an active part in the recording sessions, offering her expertise in vocal coaching, and songwriting. She has produced sessions for many of the artists we work with, and her warm and supportive presence in the studio has helped many to produce their best work.