Leo Sidran and The Groovy French Band

Leo Sidran is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, journalist and producer of Grammy and Oscar-winning music.

The son of American jazzman Ben Sidran, Leo began writing songs professionally as a teenager (American rocker Steve Miller recorded four of his songs when he was just 15) and has been doing it ever since. Interest in Spanish language music led Leo to produce projects for beloved Latin artists like Alex Cuba (they won a Grammy together) and Jorge Drexler (he co-produced Drexler’s Oscar-winning song “Al otro lado del río”).

His own solo work has been called “sparkling original” (Jazz Times, USA) and compared to Donald Fagen, Mose Allsion, Bob Dorough and his father, Ben,

Here, along with his Groovy French Band, he presents his 8th solo record, What’s Trending, the follow-up to The Art Of Conversation (2021).

“Vocally, he suggests an amalgam of his father, Ben, with a hint of Donald Fagen. His fluid, laidback style is reminiscent of Bob Dorough. Musically and lyrically, his compositions are smart, sharp, and sparklingly original.” – Jazz Times, USA.

“He offers us his coolness, his bittersweet nostalgia, his art of doing everything without seeming to touch it. Because everything looks easy with Leo Sidran. ” – Le Soir, Belgium

“The Art of Conversation is a hymn to empathy and affability, two rabidly human attributes that today, immersed in this world of grudges, susceptibilities and confrontations, have become nothing short of exotic.” – El Pais, Spain.