Leslie Mendelson

Modeling her music after such '70s icons as Carole King and Joni Mitchell, singer/songwriter Leslie Mendelson began making waves in 2005, when the homespun debut album Take It as You Will. She continued to follow in the fashion of classic songwriters with her third full-length, 2017's Love and Murder, which included covers of Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. A Long Island native, Mendelson was influenced by her father, who was a music teacher, and became passionate about music at a young age. She recorded some of her original songs for the first time as singer for the funk group Mo...