Leah was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA (Highland Park) to her Mexican-Native American father Luz, and Polish-Russian-Jewish mother, Debbie. Leah grew up eating tamales, bagels, french fries and tacos, riding her bike around her neighborhood, and playing her favorite sport year round, fútbol.

At 5 years old Leah dreamed of being a professional soccer player and made her way to the top as a Division 1, All-American athlete en route to try out for the US Women’s National team. At the height of her athletic career she tore her ACL and the trajectory of her career changed. While heartbroken from losing her first love (fútbol) she decided to follow her older sister to a gathering of a small group of family and friends learning medicine songs for sweat lodge ceremonies. It was here that she learned to sing - to sing as an offering - that song is a gift and each song is an offering of love.

Today Leah is a children’s music singer and songwriter, creative, artist, and mindful movement enthusiast. As co-founder and former lead singer of Las Cafeteras and the current co-founder and CEO of People’s Yoga, Leah uses her background in athletics to bring her skills and experience together.

Tía Leah’s Neighborhood was born in 2020 after years of marinating on the idea of becoming an children’s book author. Her book ideas quickly turned into a musical project with the intensity of the 2020 pandemic and the negative impacts it was having on children. She became eager to offer any bit of hope to children in the midst of the crisis we all found ourselves faced with, and so she began creating.

Tía Leah’s Neighborhood aims to invite a magical imagination of a make believe neighborhood that lives within the heart, where curiosity and hope nurture our differences and bring us closer together. Growing up with multiple identities, languages, and cultures, Tía Leah understood from a young age that we’re all different and we’re all the same, and together we can build the brightest neighborhoods of our wildest imaginations.

Full of love and cariño, Tía Leah believes that music is medicine, connection is the core our human nature, and children are the leaders of hope.