Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Leah LaBelle

Leah LaBelle

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 31, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:09, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Leah LaBelle (September 8, 1986 – January 31, 2018) was an American singer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Seattle, Washington, she began pursuing music as a career in her teens, which included performing in the Total Experience Gospel Choir. LaBelle rose to prominence in 2004 as a contestant on the third season of American Idol, placing twelfth in the season finals. Attending the Berklee College of Music for a year, she dropped out to move to Los Angeles. Starting in 2007, LaBelle recorded covers of R&B and soul music for her YouTube channel. These videos led to work as a backing vocalist starting in 2008 and a record deal in 2011 with Epic in partnership with I Am Other and So So Def Recordings. LaBelle released a sampler, three singles, and a posthumous extended play (EP), and received the Soul Train Centric Award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards. In 2018, LaBelle and her boyfriend Rasual Butler died in a car crash in Los Angeles. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): The closest biography would be John Hay on December 31, 2022, but the closest biography on a singer was Lorde back on May 3, 2022.
Main editors: Aoba47
Promoted: September 18, 2021
Reasons for nomination: The 5-year anniversary of her death. I have not written one of these in a very long time so please feel free to revise the blurb as this is definitely not my strong suit.
Support as nominator. Aoba47 (talk) 01:10, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - An appropriate date to run this one as TFA.--N Ø 06:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pseud 14 (talk) 15:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:41, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Vida0007 (talk) 21:29, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]