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Meet Leif Pedersen Musician:

Leif Pedersen is a New Orleans native who now resides in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with his wife Sheryl.

Leif has been a singer and big-band leader for almost forty years, spending seven of those years touring as the featured vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and another with Pete Fountain at 1984 World's Fair.

He served in the Marine Corps, completing his service as a Staff Sargeant and is a member of the Southeastern Louisiana University Music Hall of Fame. For thirty-five years, he also served as a fundraising executive for Methodist Health System in New Orleans and Lake Charles Memorial Health System Foundation.

He was the featured vocalist for President & Mrs. Reagan’s 1981 Inaugural and for dozens of French Quarter Festivals & Jazz Fests in New Orleans.

BANDS LEIF APPEARED WITH:

Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Al Belletto, Pete Fountain, Ronnie Kole, Vaughn Monroe, Herb Tassin, Don Lamond, Swing, The D-Day Big Band.

SAMPLE LISTING OF TOURS AND SPECIALS:

1981 Inaugural for President and Mrs. Reagan, S.S. Rotterdam, Mississippi Queen, S.S. Statendam, S.S. Volendam, Sands Hotel, Sahara Hotel, Resorts International, England Tour, Del Webb Resort, LA Jazz & Heritage Festival, Canada Tour, Canadian TV Special, The Today Show, Wolftrap, The Toronto Forum, Nassau, Bermuda, The Summit, Blues Alley, Disneyland, Disney World, Coconut Grove, Waldorf Astoria, Ravinia Arts Center, Smithsonian, Lennon Sisters Tour, Mills Brothers Tour, 1984 World's Fair, Milwaukee Summer Pops, French Quarter Festivals, 1993 - 2000 Congressional Mardi Gras Balls, 2002 Superbowl NFL Owners Party

ENTERTAINERS APPEARED WITH:

Peggy Lee, Johnny Desmond, Vic Damone, Lou Rawls, Carol Lawrence, Nancy Wilson, Ink Spots, Helen O'Connell, Maureen McGovern, The Lettermen, Billy Eckstein, Connie Haines, Helen Forrest, June Allison, Pied Pipers, Four Lads, Henny Youngman, Four Aces, Bob Eberly, Mills Brothers, Gordon Macrae, Four Freshman, Lennon Sisters, The 5^th Dimension, Jack Leonard, Pete Fountain, Rita Moreno, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Mercer Ellington.

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