Leandra

Leandra Ophelia Dax Real Name Olga Telnow Born As Olga Wladimirowna Telnowa Born December 19 1981 In Minsk Belarusian SSR Is A Pianist Keyboardist Singer And Songwriter With Belarusian And German Citizenship.
Olga Telnowa Was Born In Minsk Belarus Then The USSR As The Only Child Of An English Lecturer And A Physics Engineer.
At The Age Of Five She Began To Play The Theme Songs Of Her Favorite Series On The Piano At The Age Of Six She Was Admitted To An Elite Music School Where She Studied Piano Classical Composition Music Theory And Choir .
The General School She Attended Also Specialized In Promoting Musical Talent. Her Perfect Pitch Was Quickly Discovered And Her Creativity Encouraged The Music School Allowed Her To Take Part In Composition Competitions. When She Finally Won First Place In One Of The Competitions At The Age Of Nine She Got A Scholarship At The Moscow Conservatory . However Her Parents Persuaded The Jury To Transfer The Scholarship To An Adequate Academy In The City Of Minsk Because Of The Young Age Of Their Daughter .
Then Olga Telnowa Was Placed At The Minsk Conservatory Where She Began A Junior Course In Piano And Composition. In 1996 The Family Fled To The German Ruhr Area . The Then Successful Young Pianist Tried To Continue Her Junior Studies At The Folkwang University Of The Arts In Essen . Due To Language Barriers The 14-Year-Old Only Succeeded In Doing This After Two Unsuccessful Entrance Exams. In The Same Year She Took First Place In Jugend Composed With The Classical Piece Variations On A Theme Of Its Own And A Year Later With Freedom Of Variation For A Keyboard Cattle .
At The Age Of Fourteen Olga Telnow Discovered Her Love For Contemporary Rock And Punk Music. She Started Wearing Her Hair Brightly And Dressing Funky. Eventually She Left The University Of The Arts To Take Electric Guitar Lessons. After Three Years Of Abstinence From The Piano She Made Up Her Mind To Take Her Diploma In Piano And Composition At The Same Time As Graduating From High School .
At The Age Of Seventeen Telnow Founded The Riot-Grrrl Band Venusbabydoll In Which She Processed Influences Such As Hole And Nirvana . During A Two-Week Internship In A Recording Studio The Classical Pianist Developed An Interest In Recording Technology And Got To Know Her Long-Time Mentor And Friend. Rya Then Under Contract With FAME Recordings Took On Her By Making The First Demo Recordings Of Venusbabydoll And Later Including The Songwriter In Her Live Band As A Keyboardist.
Over The Next Three Years Tours With Mila Mar Last Instance And Appearances With Corvus Corax Followed . In The Meantime Telnow Wrote New Pieces Of Her Own Which She Describes As "selected From Extreme Situations" Founded The Leandra Project And Completed Her Bachelor Of Arts In Social And Educational Psychology.
When Rya Withdrew From The Public Eye The Pianist Took On An Engagement As Keyboard Player For The Synth Rock Band Jesus On Extasy Under The Pseudonym Ophelia Dax . This Stage Name Is Made Up Of One Of The Characters In The Tragedy Hamlet By W. Shakespeare And The Character Jadzia Dax From The Series Star Trek Deep Space Nine .
The Band Jesus On Extasy Was Under Contract With Drakkar Entertainment Toured Europe Over The Next Few Years And Shared The Festival Stages With Nightwish Tool Skinny Puppy And One Unheilig Last Instance And Marilyn Manson Among Others .
In 2008 The Artist Finally Got A Contract With Drakkar Entertainment To Release Her First Solo Album Metamorphine Under The Name Leandra With The Sony BMG Distributor . The Album Includes A Duet With Sven Friedrich Zeraphine Dreadful Shadows . Her Longtime Friends Of The Band Last Instance Invited Her As A Singer And Pianist To Her Acoustic Album The White Song And The Accompanying The White Tour .
In 2010 Olga Telnow Accepted An Engagement With The Band Diary Of Dreams Under The Pseudonym DAX . Due To Personal Differences Within The Band The Collaboration Only Lasted A Few Months.
At The End Of The Same Year She Joined Apoptygma Berzerk With Whom She Competes In The Second Part Of Unheilig's “Great Freedom” Tour . In 2011 The Keyboard Player Also Appeared At The Same Time As The Cashier Band And Accompanied Frei.Wild's "XMas" Tour On The Piano. In 2012 Leandra Ophelia Dax Joined Die Priester Santiano And Roterfeld As Keyboard Player .
Olga Telnowa Describes The Solo Debut Album Metamorphine Of Her Project Leandra As Her Secret Diary. The Pieces Are A Reflection Of Extreme Situations In Her Life. Stylistically The Music Moves Between Tori Amos PJ Harvey And Massive Attack . Projects And Collaborations 2003–2006 Keyboard Player With Rya. Tour With Mila Mar And Last Instance. 2007–Dato Keyboarderin Bei Jesus On Extasy 2008 – Date Keyboard Player In Andy Brings' Band Formerly Sodom The Traceelords February – July 2010 Keyboard Player With Diary Of Dreams For The Tour With Unheilig. 2008 Duet With Sven Friedrich Zeraphine Dreadful Shadows 2008 Piano And Vocals On The Album The White Song By The Band Last Instance And On The Subsequent The White Tour 2008 Club Single Noisy Awareness Remixed By Chai Deveraux Guitarist Of Jesus On Extasy. 2009 Duet With Sid From The Pussybats On The Most Beautiful Tales End Sadly And Dance With The Devils Both On The Album Famous Last Songs . 2010 Live Keyboard At Apoptygma Berzerk For The Unheilig Support Tour Große Freiheit II . 2011 Background Singer At Frei.Wild - Only Assholes Around Me 2012 Live Keyboard At Santiano 2013 Background Singer With Frei.Wild On The Album Still read less