LESLIE ROHONCZY: Woman On A Mission By JIM HURCOMB There comes a time in everyone’s life when it’s best


just to shelve all those hopes and dreams you had as a younger person and admit that they’re just never going to happen. “Bullsh*t”, says Leslie Rohonczy. If she had followed


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that advice she wouldn’t be fronting Three Times Lucky and at least three other bands, most notably, The Leslie Rohonczy Band, whose third album “Qualia” has just been released. Early in our interview it became quite clear that she is


a woman with drive, ambition and a clear focus of what she wants, and the talent to reach her goals. It started with 12 years of piano training at the Royal


Conservatory of music. She calls hearing Elton John for the first time her first big “wow” as far as writing music goes. From there on in it was a familiar path for many singer-songwriters of the time. There were the piano bar gigs, then jumping from Jazz to R&B to Swing to Rock and Pop in Ottawa bands like “Eight to the Bar”, “Girls Like Us” and “Moondogs”. In between the gigs Leslie found time to do studio


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