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Leslie Winer (born December 24, 1958) is an American musician, poet, and writer. She began her career as a high fashion model before she transitioned into music.
She is of Scots-Irish, Basque, Mi’kmaq, and Acadian descent.
Winer appeared in fashion campaigns for Valentino, Christian Dior and Chloé. She also appeared on the magazine cover of Vogue Italia Pelle, Vogue Gioiello, and Vogue Australia. She continued to model throughout the 1980s.
In 2014, Winer returned to modeling as the face of Vivienne Westwood's spring/summer 2014 campaign.
In 1987, Winer co-wrote the track "Just Call Me Joe" with Sinéad O'Connor. The song would appear on O'Connor's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, with Winer performing the backup spoken vocal. In 1988, she began recording under the name '©'. Winer recorded her first song, "Kind of Easy," with Karl Bonnie from Renegade Soundwave.
In 1990, Winer recorded the album Witch with Wobble and Mooney. BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel played some tracks off this white label and the record went on to become a small cult classic prompting NME to refer to Winer as "The Grandmother of Trip hop".
In 1991, she moved to Miami and was working at Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's South Beach Studios, where she recorded her albums 3 Bags Full and Spider.
Helmut Lang did a small pressing of her album Spider that he released in his NYC shop sometime around 1999 to promote one of his shows. Winer occasionally records music with Swedish composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff and others. She has also worked with Grace Jones.
Winer dated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat early in her career. The New York Times Style Magazine
In 1986, Winer married Kevin Mooney for "the papers." "The British wanted me to leave the country," she said.
Winer currently lives in France, where she has raised five daughters and was the executor of the estate of writer and poet Herbert Huncke.
| The Lion and the Cobra | |||
| As Is | |||
| "Counting the Rosaries" | |||
| Silence Running | |||
| Dressing for Pleasure | |||
| Clear | |||
| "Calm Gunshot" | |||
| Piece of Work | |||
| CI | |||
| Paradise Lost | |||
| The Last Album | |||
| "Tenderness" | 2021 | Maxwell Sterling | Turn Of Phrase |
| Little Indian (EP) | |||
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