Phoebe Hemenway Legere

PHOEBE LEGERE is a composer,artist, film maker, arranger, songwriter, singer and performer on piano, accordion, guitar, cello, Native American flute, and synthesizer. She works across genres and art forms. She combines science and classical music, painting and poetry, sculpture and engineering, acting and art.

Legere is an NYU and Juilliard trained film score composer who creates her own videos, including The Shamancycle Story. Her new video, OK Cupid, is a selfie, using traditional Acadian music to critique computer culture.

The New York Times raved: “Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing.”

Interview Magazine called her “ a genius.”


“Often copied, never equaled, Phoebe Legere is a transmedia virtuoso force who zaps the listener into a new reality. Legere personifies the divine feminine; her multi-octave voice has been compared to Edith Piaf, Aretha Franklin and Maria Callas...Legere is a nuclear, spinning, multi-dimensional, creative force NOT TO BE MISSED.” -- Provincetown Magazine August 2014

"Phoebe shines: A soprano with a five octave range, Queen Phoebe, plays both piano and accordion like nothing you have ever witnessed before, she sings as well and is a radiant presence with all her gifts on dazzling display in her outrageous new show, Shakespeare and Elizabeth" - Patrick Christiano, Theaterlife.com 2014

Where Magazine called her a “brilliant composer.”

Studs Terkel said, “ She's multi-gifted, an American original!” - National Public Radio

Variety said, “Phoebe Legere is superb!"

Liz Smith garlanded her with the ultimate singer-pianist accolade, “Phoebe Legere is the new Bobby Short!” 2008

Iman Labedi of RockNYC described Phoebe Legere as “a master writer of startlingly beautiful, heroic songs.”2012

Ron Della Chiesa, host of Music America, told his listeners in 2013:

“Phoebe Legere is magnificent…Her beautiful voice will take your breath away!”