Quiksilver encourages creative female talent and supports young artists on the road to success and we are very pleased to announce that our own Quiksilver Women Leddra Chapman, Ellie Lawson and Tennille Amor are sharing some tracks from their respective new albums with us.

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With three creative and talented artists and three awesome albums to discover what are you waiting for? To download some tracks from our ambassadors, just go to http://music.quiksilver-women.com and suscribe. Thank you for your support and thank you Leddra, Ellie and Tennille for sharing your music with us!

LEDDRA CHAPMAN Photo: Timo Jarvinen

ELLIE LAWSON Photo: Timo Jarvinen

TENNILLE AMOR

You can download Leddra’s music for free from http://music.quiksilver-women.com/ or else her music is also available on Itunes.

With soulful and honest lyrics that come straight from the heart, Quiksilver Woman Leddra Chapman is truly one of the most gifted young songwriters and vocalists in Britain today. Check out the video below of Leddra performing live her song ” Wine Glass” extracted from her debut album ” Telling Tales”.

You can download Leddra’s music for free from http://leddrachapman.quiksilver-women.com  
or else, ” Telling Tales” is also available on Itunes!

Last tuesday, Quiksilver Woman Leddra Chapman was invited on This Morning to perform live her song ” Story” !! This young and talented singer songwriter is definitely one of the most hotly tipped music stars of 2010! Check out this amazing live :

Leddra Chapman’s debut album is now officially out ! Leddra has recorded her album ‘Telling Tales’ with musician and producer Peter-John Vettese (Heather Small, Idina Mendez, Tina Arena, Jethro Tull). The result is a collection of ten folk-pop songs on which Leddra’s pure voice, beautiful instrumentation and the evocative words work together to paint vivid pictures. To get a taste of ” Telling Tales”, check out Quiksilver Woman Leddra Chapman performing live her song ” A little easier” and make sure to order that amazing album at http://leddrachapman.quiksilver-women.com/

As she tours for the launch of her debut album, Leddra Capman will be visiting Switzerland this weekend! She will be offering two exclusive performances: A first one at the legendary Longboarder shop in Biel on Saturday 12^th December from 15h30; and a second one at the Kreuz restaurant in Nidau on Sunday 13^th December from 20h00. If you’re a lover of Glühwein, ginger bread and good music, make sure you join us for some pre-Christmas celebration!

And if you can’t, don’t worry! Leddra’s debut album “Telling Tales” is also available digitally on Itunes now.

Leddra Chapman on the Little sister jacket, captured by also Quiksilver woman Bara Prasilova.

Anna wearing White Plain dress and Filmstrip scarf

A few weeks ago i jet setted back to hossegor to shoot the music video for “Story”! The video is basically me telling a story through polaroid pictures, i’m taking them throughout the video and there are a few quirky scenes with me surrounded by paper planes, climbing amongst the trees, rocks …. one small roof top! There are lots of scenes on the beach and of course i was wearing the Fall collection by Quiksilver Women!!! they are sooo beautiful!!!!

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1st day of the video shoot was all on location, and it was such a nice day! Me and Tara were up at 6 and started make up at half past! First we headed into Bayonne, a beautiful town near Biarritz. We did some shots of me taking polaroids by the lighthouse and some shots by the sea! The town was really beautiful, too. We then did some shots of me in the car taking pictures on the road through the country side! there was one scene where we had two cars going alongside eachother, cameraman Dan in one, me in the other!!!! Was hard to keep a straight face!
It was a loooong day and we all caught a (reasonably) early night! =)

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The next day was all about the lip syncing- it was quite a surreal thing to get my head around and i cant tell u how nervous i was!!! i wouldnt let anyone watch for the first hour i was so embarrased! but as the day went on i got more an more confident and just treated it as if it were a live performance and i think that helped a lot!   Here are some piccies!!! Cant Wait to Show you all the Video  

Anna xxx
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The Hawk racerbank tank and Immortal scarf

Looking smart with the Birdland blazer and Knockout jeans

Laurel Canyon top and Knockout skinny jeans

http://myspace.com/annaleddrachapman

Me having a blast hosting this night - Photo: Helen Boast

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It’s not that we wouldn’t appreciate such things as International Women’s Day, but the thing with us Quiksilver Women is just that we are independent females and we don’t need others to set up occasions to celebrate ourselves. That’s why we European Quiksilver Ambassadors gathered up four days after 2009’s Internationel Women’s day to celebrate female creativity at its best! Cuz everyday is a Quiksilver women’s day!
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Photographer Bara Prasilova exhibiting her most recent work, our singers Anna Leddra Chapman, Ellie Lawson and Charlotte O’Connor performing their music, DJ Mahara McKay getting our booties shaking and me for once shit-talking instead of shit-typing, we rocked London’s Bush Hall last Thursday night, the 12th of March, and you better were there!

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Anna Leddra Chapman - Photo: Helen Boast

Ellie Lawson - Photo : Helen Boast

Charlotte O'Connor - Photo : Helen Boast

DJ Mahara McKay - Photo: Helen Boast

The Bush Hall on fire! Photo: Helen Boast

Bara Prasilova (left) with friend enjoying an exclusive exhibition of her photos - Photo: Helen Boast

Special thanks to everyone who made this event great and fun: Helen Boast (photographer), Big Balls team (Luke and Chris - Video makers), Sam Bush (co-organizer / Charlotte O’Connor’s manager), (David (Gibson) Tara and her team (hair and make-up), David (Gibson), Quiksilver team (Meena, Marta, Julie and everyone from Quiksilver UK), PR Balance.

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And a huge big up for the best Quiksilver Women and their teams: Anna Leddra Chapman, Ellie Lawson, Charlotte O’Connor, Mahara McKay, Bara Prasilova and her assistant Bara Berdyshova.

This week, the Quiksilver women will gather in London for a special event : a unique concert on Thursday 12th March.

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Everything started on the 20th of February, when our Quiksilver ambassadors, Anna Leddra Chapman, Ellie Lawson and Charlotte O’Connor gathered at the mythic Gibson Studio,  in London,  to record acoustic tracks.

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They recorded a song each and videos from this amazing day… Check out now how much they all had fun and how brilliant and talented these artists are !

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Quiksilver ambassadors at Gibson Studio

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Quiksilver ambassador Charlotte O’Connor

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Quiksilver ambassador Ellie Lawson

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Quiksilver ambassador Anna Leddra Chapman

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The Quiksilver women’s will host a unique evening celebrating female creativity next Thursday 12th March, at Bush Hall, London…

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* Introductions and MC by Ela - The Spring 09 face andthe host to Quiksilver women’s blog.

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* Discover the Eye of Bara Prasilova - Fashion / Art photographer from Prague

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* Live acoustic sets by Anna Leddra Chapman, Ellie Lawson, and breaking Columbia artist Charlotte O’Connor

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* Former Miss Switzerland and Quiksilver women’s internationally acclaimed DJ - Mahara McKay will bring the house down  to party through the night!

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