Bio of Lesley Littlefield
Short Version
Singer-songwriter
Lesley Littlefield began her study of classical violin at
age nine, and has since worked with a variety of musical instruments
and styles. In early 2005, Littlefield completed her first
CD/DVD, Little Songs Unabridged, which features her lively
and provocative music and three music videos. Her “Bug Song”
and Bug music video are highlighted in Taggart Siegel’s recent
award-winning documentary film The Real Dirt on Farmer John.
Lesley works as Farmer John Peterson’s biographer and studies
Russian language ongoingly. She currently lives in San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico.
Long
Version
I was born on May 8, 1979 in Cleveland,
Ohio as Lesley Kabrin Freeman. I was my mother’s first child,
and my father’s fourth. Eventually, my mother had my little
sister, and after my parents’ divorce she took us two kids
to live in Cincinnati (details in my song, “Lucy and
the Barefoot Girls”). I was a quiet and imaginative
little girl, shy and observant. I spent hours sitting high
up in trees, daydreamed about flying, and inspected rocks
and insects.
In 4th grade I wanted to play the violin.
I didn’t want to learn the piano, because it was my mother’s
instrument. The beautiful baby grand sat there in the dining
room (we dined at a card table in the kitchen), next door
to the pool table in the living room. At the time, mom was
teaching me me how to use the phone book, and refused to
call the music shop about violin rentals unless I found
the number myself. The horror! I struggled for an eternity
with that awful yellow book…but I’d had year of lessons
by the time I could join the school orchestra in 5th grade.
When I was 13, I moved back to Cleveland
to live my father and his new wife. I got a new violin teacher,
Lev Polyakin, a Cleveland Orchestra violinist with a charming
Russian accent who introduced me to the Beatles and encourged
me to learn piano and write songs. He was a songwriter himself,
and sang his songs to me while accompanying himself on the
piano.
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