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Leni G. Maddocks, born Luis Miguel Pérez Maddocks-Francis is a self-taught Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Producer and Philosopher whose musical career has been subjected to many changes and reinvention, in his own words "if all of a sudden I don´t feel the project is going places... I´m out", this caused him to be a co-founder of a number of musical acts that remained unfinished until today.

Born in London, UK October 12, 1974 (Highgate Hill)

Height : 1.65cm

Eyes : Brown

Hair : Dark Brown

Parents : Jose Miguel Pérez Ladrón de Guevara & Elizabeth Anne Maddocks-Francis

Siblings : Geraldine Anne Pérez (deceased)

In the year 1976 Leni was taken to Southern Spain (Granada) by his parents who moved there hoping to escape the infamous English weather, his father use to organize singing parties at home in which he would record himself emulating the flamenco artists of his time like Camarón de La Isla o Lole y Manuel and also recording young Leni singing enfant songs from TV cartoon shows like Marco around the age of four, this recording sessions will mark Leni´s undying fascination with all kinds of music.

Over the years Leni G. Maddocks co-founded :

SHAKE, Pop-Rock High School Band in Granada, Spain (1991-1993).

MiXTURA, Hard Rock Band in Granada, Spain (1995-1999).

Sub-Villain, Funk Rock Band in London, UK (2002-2004).

Estelar, Pop-Rock Band in Barcelona, Spain (2006-2008).

Sounds Of Death Valley, Hard rock - Noise Band, Barcelona, Spain (2011-2014).

Chaturanga, Latin Pop-Rock Band, Barcelona, Spain (2016-2018).

Leni entered as a guitar replacement in SNiTCH, London based Punk-Rock Band in 2002 which released a total of two EP CDs and a Promotional Video "What´s That Sound" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uU3RExzXC4

After his return to London in 1999 Leni continued with the determined idea of wanting to record his own songs before presenting them to other musicians, as he always said "The rehearsal room sometimes can be a conflictive place if you don´t walk in there with really clear ideas, you know what I mean ?..."

Back in 1999 he bought his first rhythm machine and begun his home recordings using two cassette decks and overlapping tracks to obtain songs, at the time the sound of the recordings was really precarious but those were the basis of songs that we can hear in full production today.

In the year 1999 he was being forced to attend military service in Spain to what he refused by deserting, later on 2001 he clarified his situation with the Spanish government by sending mail proof that he was actually a British citizen and resident.