Leo Hayes - Hardcore Redneck Hillbilly Trailer Trash Queen

From the time Leo was Seven years old he always knew he wanted to be, an entertainer. Doing impressions like his favorite entertainer at the time, Rich Little, Leo found out early on how much fun it could be to get a hold of an audience. At the age of ten, Leo's mother gave him his first real guitar as a christmas present and I am sure that she had no idea that this one gift would change Leo's life forever. He would plunk horribly on it for hours just trying to get some sort of assemlance of a tone that someone might recognize as music. At the age of Thirteen Leo started to compose his own creations and so started his songwriting adventure. As a teenager Leo discovered the drums, an instrument that he had been intrigued with from an early age by watching his uncle Dan who was quite a percussionist. During his hitch in the Navy Leo was introduced to 50' Rock & Roll by a Hotrod Los Angeles Picker, Steve Mc Govern who happened to be stationed at the same base as Leo. This is where Leo would discover the ability to sing like the King and truley come to love possibly the greatest music ever created. Although Leo had mostly been playing the drums he had been writing songs on his guitar, mostly country style with a flair of that old style borrowed from the great rockabilly composers of the fifties. At the age of twenty one, Leo put away his drums and got out his guitar and decided this is really what he wanted to do for a living. Hours and hours he would spend writing countless songs to which most would be little more than round file filler. But as Leo continued to create, he would discover that the more he would write the better the songs would be and fewer and fewer would end up the way of the fireplace. Leo set out in the early nineties with the ambition to put a band together and croon his tunes throughout the Northwest. Little did he know this was not going to be as easy as it sounded. Everywhere he went he met oppositon and mostly the same reaction from musicians. They would normally have same response, "No one writes their own stuff around here, we only do cover tunes" Discouraged but not broken, Leo would continue to try as he might. Who could have known that Elvis would be the vehicle that would allow Leo to introduce himself to the Northwest. Leo thought it might be fun to do this Elvis song in a talent show in the School he was working at as a janitor. This show would launch a part of Leo's musical carreer that still today plays an active part. It took off like wildfire from a two song talent show to a full blown Las Vegas style whirlwind. What Leo didn't realize is this for sometime would halt his country show ambition. The show went so well it consumed Leo's schedule extinguishing the possibilty for a Country Breakout. In 1996 Leo & his wife Lisa and their three children, Keisha, Shea & Buddy set out on a cross country adventure to the land of country music where no one knew Leo as Leo "Elvis" Hayes the Impersonator. This would truly be a w

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