Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Leah LaBelle

Leah LaBelle

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 31, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:09, 15 December 2022 (UTC)



Leah LaBelle (September 8, 1986 – January 31, 2018) was an American singer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Seattle, Washington, she began pursuing music as a career in her teens, which included performing in the Total Experience Gospel Choir. LaBelle rose to prominence in 2004 as a contestant on the third season of American Idol, placing twelfth in the season finals. Attending the Berklee College of Music for a year, she dropped out to move to Los Angeles. Starting in 2007, LaBelle recorded covers of R&B and soul music for her YouTube channel. These videos led to work as a backing vocalist starting in 2008 and a record deal in 2011 with Epic in partnership with I Am Other and So So Def Recordings. LaBelle released a sampler, three singles, and a posthumous extended play (EP), and received the Soul Train Centric Award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards. In 2018, LaBelle and her boyfriend Rasual Butler died in a car crash in Los Angeles.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The closest biography would be John Hay on December 31, 2022, but the closest biography on a singer was Lorde back on May 3, 2022.
 * Main editors: Aoba47
 * Promoted: September 18, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: The 5-year anniversary of her death. I have not written one of these in a very long time so please feel free to revise the blurb as this is definitely not my strong suit.
 * Support as nominator. Aoba47 (talk) 01:10, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - An appropriate date to run this one as TFA.--NØ 06:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support --Pseud 14 (talk) 15:48, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:41, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Vida0007 (talk) 21:29, 11 December 2022 (UTC)