Lenny Deneb, a St. Lucian born singer/songwriter, has been described by the British music press as exciting, impressive and intelligent in his writing. Lenny’s brand of reggae music is termed reggae-rock, combining the styles of Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Peter Tosh and the rock influences of U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Police, Radiohead, Ocean Colour Scene, Lenny Kravitz and R.E.M.

Lenny spent the period between 1998 to the present residing, traveling and working between St. Lucia and London. After a number of singles for various producers in London, in 2000 he released his debut album ‘From The sanctuary,’ as well as nurturing a number of young St. Lucian artists namely PCL Krew and One 2 One.

In 2008, Lenny received a nomination for Producer of the Year at the first annual St. Lucia Music Awards.

Lenny recently secured a management and marketing deal for India and the Middle East. “Signing on this artist was a very easy decision for the A&R division due to the high energy and infectious music they make”, says W.O.A International Marketing Director Wanda Alvares. “Lenny joins ranks with the select few top notch reggae rock acts that are now with W.O.A Records.”

As a solo artiste, in 1987 Lenny released three songs for his own LED Records, the third single ‘Who or what turns you on’ made record of the week in the Echoes music paper and recently turned up on the Discog website as a collector’s record.

Following this Lenny recorded a zouk-soca song for another London based Jamaican producer named Bill Campbell titled ‘Shakedown Suzanne’.

Lenny also wrote ‘Standing in the rain’ for Judy Boucher, the song appearing on her album ‘A new way to say I love you’ and he has also worked closely with Dominican producer Lindel Lewis and guitarist JJ Belle of Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Arrow, Judie Tzuke, Phil Collins, Bob Marley fame.

At the age of ten Lenny migrated to England from St. Lucia, West Indies. Those early years were difficult learning to cope with the life changes and a new environment. As part of his coping mechanism, Lenny would frequent the local youth and community center affectionately known as ‘Saxon’ and this is where his love of music was first aroused, and his first music outfit Cygnus (name checked by Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols/PIL as one of his favourite bands at the time) was formed and later signed to Greensleaves Records.

As well as releaseing a number of singles with Greensleaves, Cygnus worked with a number of high profile acts of the time including John Holt and Errol Dunkley, which brought the band immediate success, and media attention from the Echoes, Melody Maker, Sounds Magazine, Caribbean Times, West Indian World and The Jamaican Gleaner.

Building on this success Cygnus received a licensing deal through Barclay Records in France and ‘Silhouettes’ one of their biggest singles was released by Barclay in the French territories.

This success brought more exposure and the band toured France, Holland, Ireland, Norway (Cygnus played Oslo before groups like Steel Pulse and Aswad) and Finland.

The band followed this success with some studio work with Jamaican producer John Rubie releasing two singles for Rubie’s Freedom Sounds label namely ’ It’s not hard’ and a cover version of McFadden & Whitehead’s ’Ain’t no stopping us now’. At the pinnacle of the band’s career Cygnus appeared on live French TV with Jimmy Cliff