Song:Boundaries
Album:Street Soul Anthems
Leena Conquest is a jazz singer who sang on this 1992 Hip Hop Finger song that has legs with the Acid Jazz crowd in England. Other than this, she is an avant garde jazz singer. Hip Hop Finger are from Austria. The leader is producer Werner "Chrono" Popp. The other members are drummer Walter "Muhammad" Mali and sax player Hans Holler. They record mostly experimental jazz. As Hip Hop Finger, they released the album Sub Hop in 1992. Leena sang lead on the single Boundaries. Leena is from Dallas. Later on she recorded an album with avant garde sax player William Parker. She is a member of his group Raining On The Moon. Boundaries became popular with British DJs like Acid Jazz creator Gilles Peterson. RCA picked up the single for distribution and they released it as a Leena Conquest single. So you can get Boundaries on various artists CD's like Street Soul Anthems. Leena released a solo album called Come Fly Away on her own label in 1999. But for the most part, she works a lot with Parker and other jazz musicians. Hip Hop Finger only recorded one album and Boundaries was the only song that generated any interest. Popp returned to writing and producing. Mali and Holler returned to jazz. Mali died in 2012. Here's a video for Boundaries by Hip Hop Finger featuring Leena Conquest.
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