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03-22-09 ::

Hey everyone! So much has been going on and we all forgot to update this site again lol! Let us begin by saying Leila had a blast at SXSW this year watching films, bands and hitting the parties! She wont quit talking about all the interesting people she met. Leila has been very very busy making films last 10 months, from two features to one short and a Persian music video she made for a contest. Leila has also been collaborating with the very gifted Eric Tessmer on several projects including the Persian song and video mentioned above. Sarah Marie of the Austinist wrote a great article about them working together and Eric's amazing talent Click Here.
Now she and Eric and a new talent she found named Austin are creating something very special that we will release here on the label by summer. Leila also has several other albums and projects in the works. Happy Persian new year and Spring!

09-03-09 ::

Hi everyone, we are happy to say we got Leilabella.com back! Now some of u are confused about the spelling of Leila's name, it is Leila Bela with one L and a persian symble that makes the L sound double, but we got the site with two L L's for those who spell it wrong lol and bc on the CD it is spelled with 2 LL's do to manufacturers mistake. But being that we here at the label love to spell things wrong we forgive the CD guys lol. Anyway Leila is soooo angry about the Dolphin slaughters in Japan, she the the movie "The Cove" and wants to save the dolphins so we are planning a show to support the cause. Check tour page for dates when they are set. We knowwe are lazy but we love you guys and those of you who requested autographed pics of Leila will get them soon we promise, we just all hate the post office lol. Muah!

06-24-09 ::

Hi everyone we are very sorry to say that our website www.leilabella.com with two L L 's was stollen from us by someone we trusted to do updates only but she renewed it in her name and did not tell us, Maria Alonso is now making us pay her alot of money to give us the site back, until then she has taken it down, it is very sad and unethical of her and we are filling a police report. If you bought a cd and did not get it please contact leilabela@live.com it may be because she also changed the paypal to herslef :( other than that we must say our hearts go out to Iran!!!!! We pray for the safe return of Leila's brother and pecae for all Iranians. more soon.

04-08-09 ::

We know we have been even worse at updating the sites but now we have someone on our asses that is making us do this way more often ahah so here goes: If you need to contact Leila use myspace or twitter or leilabela@live.com for best results. Maya Bond has ended her websites both homepage and myspace because she is no longer four years old and is way to cool for that stuff now lol. She has moved on to more grownup projects such as playing piano and hanging out with friends. Lexion threw a fit and took his website down because it was too much traffic and too much work and he hated it in the first place and had only done it for us, so he is busy with what he loves best, music, music, music and being so underground that no one ever hears his music but himself and a few chosen trusted ones. Lexi come out of the dark and play we miss you!!!! Leila Bela enjoyed SXSW film and music fest, picked a few bands she may sign and has started work on her most artistic project to date, but we cannot talk about it lol, when we can we will give you all the details but hint hint it is not an album. As far as her music she has released her new stuff only at shows live and has not set a cd release date as of yet for the three albums she has up her sleeve. Leila sends her love to her fans and wants you to myspace her info on new bands to sign if you know any cool ones.

12-11-08 ::

Hey guys happy holidays we have been bad about updates again, please wish Percy cat a swift recovery we know he is well. Leila has had several shows to keep her busy lately and her photography are up at gallery Lombardi so buy some! Leila's Winter wonderland of noise show at the Parish in Austin is coming up and we know you will not want to miss this mind blowing event! We will have Turkish delights, candy and crazy noise!!! Check tour page for info.

09-25-08 ::

Longtime no write, lol!! Leila's looking forward to attending ACL this weekend. She loves the deer outside her new apartment and they love her harp. So much has been going on...Lexion has discontinued his site for the time being. It became overwhelming. We all would rather be on yachts in the South of France, go Obama, stop chemtrails!!!!!

04-21-08 ::

So much has been going on we wish Prosperity Leila's other goldfish peace in the next world Leila is releasing new stuff in a few weeks yay! We are all really well and active but way too lazy to be updating this site on time lol!!! New shows will be posted soon and other fun stuff. Leila hopes all of you start protesting against chemtrails sexism. Way to go Serj Tankianfor his Anti war efforts :)

December 11, 2008:  Hey guys happy holidays we have been bad about updates again, please wish Percy cat a swift recovery we know he is well. Leila has had several shows to keep her busy lately and her photography are up at gallery Lombardi so buy some! Leila's Winter wonderland of noise show at the Parish in Austin is coming up and we know you will not want to miss this mind blowing event! We will have Turkish delights, candy and crazy noise!!! Check tour page for info.

April 21, 2008:  So much has been going on we wish Prosperity Leila's other goldfish peace in the next world Leila is releasing new stuff in a few weeks yay! We are all really well and active but way too lazy to be updating this site on time lol!!! New shows will be posted soon and other fun stuff. Leila hopes all of you start protesting against chemtrails and sexism. Way to go Serj Tankian for his Anti war efforts :)

Sept 21, 2007:  First let us say RIP to the great Luciano Pavarotti , this hit home for Leila because her dearest love Houstonian Naya Rodriguez was studying opera with him in Italy, so Leila sends her warm regards to Naya and family as well as his fans, she loves you Naya. Well the show at Enchanted Forest was Friday and the forest was as spectacular as ever, Leila is happy she could contribute her time, talent and treasure to this charitable event to help save the pretty forest. The soundman did however have some jealousy and misogyny issues towards Leila and didn’t have any of the inputs he had promised her for her contact mics or the short mic stands Leila had asked for days in advance on the phone with him, he never let her sound check early knowing she had 40 acoustic instuments and turned her sound on and off during the show and afterwards mocked her for being an experimental Iranian girl musician and even tried to call security on her when her foot accidentally knocked a mic stand caught in chords near him not even touching him, security laughed him off because they saw what happened! But Leila still performed her set for charity as planned although some of her dear fans couldn’t even hear her. However the soundman’s wrath didn’t end there, he has been forwarding phony email msgs in Leila’s name to his fan base and hers trying to ruin her reputation and some of those were forwarded to the Ellahy Amen email but we are going to choose PEACE not war in dealing with him. So we ask our fans no matter what they do hold peace thoughts ok? And be smart check IP addresses for Leila’s name in fake emails forwarded by him, know that forwarded emails can have text changes made to them. Also Leila's email ends with leilabela.com.. at this time. Leila wants to thank her lovely band for the role they played in her show. Now for other news, Leila still has a major crush on her Italian Nana, not to be confused wit Naya lol so many girls in Italy with N’s lol. And promises to visit Italy soon to see both those girls haha and her guy friends ^^ too. The film (actualy the disapearing actor Jahny Beau Walter) has already given Leila two nervous breakdowns and she has not even started shooting yet but we hope it will go ok for her. Leila will not be performing in the Halloween show at the forest because it will be mostly fire dancers that night but she highly recommends attending. And one last note, Leila loved the Henry Rollins spoken word tour she attended she feels he is so right on the money with his beliefs and she is very proud of him for traveling and finding out the truth about the countries he visited, we hope he keeps up the good work and Leila said she had not laughed that much in ages and loved his Dave Vanian turning into bat joke lol. So huge kudos to Henry for being an independent mind and not a lemming yay!!!!

August 1, 2007:  Ahaha we know we have all been either lazy (myself), busy having the usual nervous breakdowns (all of us), wallowing in relationship issues (glad that’s over), bored to death as usual and causing too much havoc (Lexion), traveling (Maya Bond), sending super sexy messages on myspace to a certain pretty Italian girl (Leila), spending too much time on yachts (Claude) and not updated this thing in way too long so forgive us all but here goes…..Hmmm where shall we start, well first and most important we will say RIP to “Faith” Leila’s beloved dear 6 year old goldfish that passed away a few days ago, we send you love and light and peace. Second, we have concert info; Leila will be playing at the Enchanted Forest in Sept and performing in their Halloween show also in Oct and that is a hell of a fire show so be there. She is working on playing Italy and Greece Sept but nothing set yet.

Leila is also working on her first auteuristic film project, very exciting dark romantic thriller, she is directing and acting in her own screenplay and although she is very happy she is also looking forward to having many more nervous breakdowns soon because they happen to come with the territory! So we will all stay far out of her way, hint hint! Lexion has been touring, those of you on his invite lists let us know what you think about his new stuff, we love it! Oh yeah Lexion and Leila had an explosive tempest of a fight haha but that had to be expected and now they are back to normal (we liked it better when they were fighting like Titania and Oberon, highly entertaining after a few shots of expensive Russian vodka!) Maya has been taking Piano lessons and doing great! Oh we have our own recording studio now for the label and in good time too because Leila is working on 7 albums! If you are sick of waiting for us to update this just add Leila on myspace and you will get updates as they occur in her bulletins but be warned this includes her daily dramas etc... That is all I can think of for now and I need a tall glass of good scotch, so cheerio!

April 12, 2007:  The April 20th show in Bologna Italy has been reset do to Leila's passport not arriving in time (blame passport office) so she is instead playing at same club on 9th June but dates are not yet set in stone check back. We love our friends and fans in Italy and know you understand our hands were tied.

March 2, 2007:   Ok are you ready for updates? We are! So here goes.... Leila is booked to play Italy with Splinter vs. Stalin in April check tour section big noise show! We have launched pages on myspace for Leila, EAR and Maya Bond. Leila's is up since November 2006 and she is up to 2000 something friends in three months, more than we had predicted! You can visit her page at www.myspace.com/leilabela the links to our other pages are in her top friends list like EAR and Maya Bonds page. So add us if you have not already! We have been very busy with looking at new artists to sign and recording Lexions new album and schmoozing on myspace. We got waaaaaaaaaay too many submissions for the label so far and are trying to listen to all of them so if you submitted something be easy on us we are swamped!

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Now for some rumor control lol:
On Maya and the wikipedia article… once and for all Maya was never signed by business deal records and her CD never released by them ever! Even if she ended up in their top 40 list, her dad is on biz deal that is only connection they have with her. She has always been on our label, that fake CD cover on wikipedia, biz deal and gorilla vs. bear page are not the cover to her CD and never have been her CD! Her cover looks like one in our store page! The link to buy her CD is only here not on business deal site. We are sooo tired of repeating this. Also on Leila’s connection to Pigface: Leila was invited in 2004 by Martin Atkins creator of Pigface and Ministry drummer to play freeform drums with him on that Pigface tour after he saw her performance opening for Pigface show in Houston. She accepted and did play drums with Martin in three shows but decided it was not her thing she prefers to do her project, but is grateful for the experience and admires his drumming skills. However, she never recorded with them. But that is the beauty of pigface it is an ever changing collaboration of good artists. Ok that’s it for rumor control. Get ready for Persian New year it is spring-cleaning time!

December 24, 2006:   Whatever path or faith you celebrate in this time of joy, I wish you all the best! May all your dreams come true for you in the new year and may you be a light in the world for others to see. I will be celebrating the birth of the christ within me and although Jesus was not born in December, I will pretend he was and celebrate his birth this week anyway because I am a devoted follower of his teachings and ways.
Lots of love and light and peace
Leila Bela and Ellahy Amen Records

November 17, 2006:   LEILA IS IN A PROSPERITY CLASS AT HER CHURCH AND THIS IS THE WEEK FOR FORGIVNESS AND STUFF SO SHE ASKED US TO EDIT OUT SOME NAMES OF OUR ENEMIES FROM THE SITE AND FORGIVE THEM, SOMETHING ABOUT HOW WHAT U PUT OUT IN THE UNIVERSE COMES BACK, ANYWAY SHE IS THE BOSS SO WE DID IT.

October 20, 2006:   Leila wants to thank Lexion Blacklord for flying to her rescue all the way from Europe when she was feeling stressed out and bothered. She had a great fun time showing you around Austin Lexi.
OoOoh....Claude and I want to know when we get a vacation with you Lexion we have our finest suits pressed and would love to be rescued also!! Ha Ha. Now to the important news Leila has made some changes to the band, fired some deadweights who just did not have the go getter attitude we require here and is now very happy with new lineup. A really great surprise is in store for her fans we must not breathe a word yet. More tour dates will be posted for her and Maya and videos of Maya live and her cute papa video are to be added soon, plus tons of new interviews with both Maya and Leila all to be added very soon.

September 28, 2006:   We as a label feel that Fitzgeralds in Houston did not uphold their end of contract with us and are last minute making changes that greatly effect the way the show would go, that is why OUR LABEL MUST CANCEL THE HOUSTON show. But we already have offers from several Houston venues who are more than happy to accomodate us in the future. We will see you guys in Houston very soon but not this friday as had been planned.

September 24, 2006:   Wow what a show!!! First EAR show with LEILA BELA and MAYA BOND was an amazing blast. We had a red carpet, with press photographers outside, giant lollipops, free candy chocolate and cupcakes and a chocolate fountain! Not to mention amazing musicians from around the globe wearing such costumes. Snippets will be available soon for dwnld. Leila is so Proud of Maya and all the musicians in the Leila Bela orchestra. We can't wait for Houston guys and gals. If you missed it come to Houston. Maya we love you great job! Ellahy Amen Records rules!

August 12, 2006:   We have fantastic news, the first two shows are booked in Austin and Houston and it will be a Willy Wonka chocolate Ellahy Amen Records party, you cannot miss this with Leila Bela, Maya bond and her band and tons of special guests, free candy, chocolate fountains and hand picked opening acts. Check the tour/shows section for details on what those two girls have brewed up for you and when and where.

Now the big huge news... we are very very excited, honored and even flabbergasted to say that the beautiful dark Lord himself Lexion Blacklord (that's right Lexion Blacklord) has agreed to be on our label for one album only, the album can be purchased by invitation only ofcourse (you know Lexion) details on that will be posted soon (or visit lexionblacklord.com) but Leila may have just forgotten she is a mysandrist for now and has been blushing a bit too often (she thinks it is totally unrelated ofcourse!) I think this makes us the best underground label in the world now!!!

June 11, 2006:   Newsweek is doing a story that mentions little Maya Bond, check out next weeks issue in the periscope section. We are very proud of Maya. Also Leila and Maya will be hitting the road soon and based on popular demand...Leila is considering letting these shows be open to the public versus invite only.

May 3, 2006:   Maya Bond played her very first gig at Rice university last Saturday and despite the bad weather causing the radio stations to not cover it live, it went great! We are very proud of our little kindergarten prodigy.

April 21, 2006:   We are proud to say Maya Bond will be performing her very first concert live at the KTRU Rice university radio station on April 29th, see ktru.org for details. You can not only tune in to ktru but you can also come and see her show live on the Rice campus.

April 20, 2006:   Hi everyone we appreciate all who have shown an interest in being represented by our label. We will review what you submitted and get back to you if we are interested. So if you get some mail from Paris France, Oxford England or Austin Texas open it, it's likely to be from one of us! We do have one artist, a very special one, to add to our list. He is one of Leila's top 4 favorite musician (more like one of only four musicians she will call a true artist) We will release his name after all the legal jumbo in 7 different languages is settled and he is ours OURS OURS for one album ONLY. Also if you wish to submit, do NOT use the old po box address on Leila Bela's CD sleeve, it is no longer valid, send all submissions to the address in Paris France listed in contact page thank you.

March 15, 2006:  We will be scouting SXSW for talent this year to sign to our label.
Happy Persian new year to all!