originally from Morristown, Tennessee.
He was raised by his mother and stepfather alongside four brothers and four sisters,
six of whom are adopted. Leming first learned the piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8wgdATqkkwhen he was eight years old after his mother purchased a Casio keyboard. He also played his grandmother’s piano during visits to her house, and participated in school musicals and choirs. Described as being “self-taught”, he also credits an “elderly piano instructor” for his early musical education and at 13 years old, Leming was writing his own music.
A friend introduced him to musicians DC Talk, Coldplay and Travis, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, and The Smiths at 15 yrs. old. They had some influence on Leming’s musical style. When he was 16, Leming began to perform locally. He dropped out of high school and left Morristown at 17, and began traveling across the United States to play shows while living out of his car. Which was an attempt to both make it as a musician and find a way to support his large and struggling family. Leming played in clubs and coffee houses through out the Southeast while working at restaurants and temp agencies to pay for food and gas.
American Idol; Josiah auditioned in Atlanta and the producers were interested in his life as a traveling musician living out of his car. In an interview later with MTV News, Leming said he was disappointed with how they portrayed his life as a “sob story”. “I wanted to stand on my voice, and my own two feet,” he explained, “but they wanted to know about the story and they wanted to use it.
I definitely wasn’t going for the sympathy vote.”
At the Audition: Josiah sang an original song called “To Run” and “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol. All three judges voted “yes”, sending him to the next round. Josiah was shown during the second day of Hollywood Week. He sang “Grace Kelly” by Mika while playing the keyboard. All 3 judges voted “yes”, giving him a free pass to the final day of Hollywood Week. On the fourth day, he sang “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King without musical accompaniment. The judges panned his performance. In spite of this, Randy voted “yes” based on all his other performances, Paula also voted “yes” and Simon also voted “yes”, sending him to the final fifty. During the final deliberation, it was revealed that he did not make the Top 24.
During his short time on American Idol, Josiah Leming always seemed to walk the line between unchecked confidence and outright depression, either beaming at the judges’ approval or lapsing into tears whenever they criticized his performance. His elimination during the semi-finals might’ve ruffled some feathers amongst the show’s die-hard fans, but it was still a smart decision, since someone as noticeably fragile as Josiah (who was the glorified equivalent of a teenaged runaway, having left home to travel the country in his car)
might’ve completely come apart under the pressure of prime-time TV.
He became a popular contestant after singing his rendition of “Grace Kelly” by English singer Mika.
However, Leming did not make it to the top 24 for his performance of “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King; Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul refused to side with Simon Cowell to see Leming advance to the semifinals.
With Leming later admitted the performance was poor.
“I didn’t know that song, so I was trying to make it my own, and
I focused more on the words than the melody. And that’s why it was kind of all messed up.”
He wanted to sing “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand, but was not allowed to do so—Leming did not know why. Cowell is on record saying that he feels it was a mistake not to put Leming through to the next round, having stated: “We should have put him through. I was all for it. I wanted him in the competition.” Leming’s controversial ouster is widely believed to be one factor behind the return of wild cards to
the selection process in Season 8.
Leming’s popularity grew after returning to Tennessee. He gained more followers on MySpace. In addition, many label representatives called him, and producers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show invited Leming to make a guest appearance, which he accepted. This eventually caught the eye of executives at Warner Brothers Records who signed him to his first major label record deal in 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dehNxAOixs
Even so, Josiah surprised everyone by pulling himself together and securing a contract with Warner Bros, the only contestant in the history of American Idol to not make the ‘Top 24’ and sign a record deal with Warner Bros. A label with considerably more credibility and experience than Idol’s own record company. Which was a deal that ruffled a few feather with A. I.
In 2008 and began work on his debut album Come on Kid.
To promote the album, Warner Bros. released Angels Undercover EP in 2008 and Punk Ass Rain EP in 2009. Meanwhile, Leming recorded Come on Kid in London and Los Angeles, with the help of producers Jesse Owen Astin, Martin Terefe, Warren Huart and David Kosten. 2 songs from Angels Undercover EP
are featured on the album–“To Run” and “Arctic Outcry Wind”.
American Idol Sues Josiah Over His New Album !!!
Then the unexpected happen it seems that we won’t hear new songs from former American Idol contestant,
as he learned his contract with Warner Bros was in danger and they may never release his EP.
Why is this happening?
Why can’t his new album be released, with new music on a fine label like Warner Bros?
It’s because of American Idol Show. They claim that Josiah signed a contract that forbids him to sign a deal with any other company and get a record deal with Sony only. What now happened was A.I. took legal action and this will probably drag for a long time. We must say this is not what we expected. It is strange that American Idol didn’t mentioned anything about this earlier.
More surprises are dished out on this five-song EP, which serves as an appetizer to the singer’s full-length debut. Angels Undercover presents Josiah as an artist — not an adolescent boy with a flair for double-fisted piano chords, but a genuine songwriter, with melodic twists and articulate turns-of-phrase to boot. He flips into his falsetto on “Arctic Outcry Wind,” perhaps his brightest pop song, Before crooning his way through the subsequent ballads, which run the gamut from angsty anthems “Theysay” to quiet tearjerkers (the titular “Angels Undercover”). “To Run” is the only track to betray Josiah‘s age, however, those three minutes of teenage melodrama do little to erase the 15 minutes of promising songcraft that precede.
Josiah Leming is known for his strength and determination, two things that he got from his mother, Sharon Leming who fought leiomyosarcoma for 10 long years, but on June 16, 2009 the cancer overtook her. Josiah released a statement to MTV.com shortly after: “To all my friends: I just wanted to thank everyone for their outpouring of love and kindness. Mom fought this for a long time, [and] passed away on Tuesday, June 16th surrounded by her family and loved ones,” Josiah’s statement read.
Sharon was diagnosed with ovarian leiomyosarcoma in October 2000 before succumbing to the disease
at 41 years of age — while at U.T. Medical Center in Knoxville, TN, it stated in The Citizen Tribune — the newspaper in the Lemings’ hometown of Morristown, TN. Also In her blog titled “My Life with Cancer” — Sharon estimated she underwent “17 surgeries, 55 radiation treatments, 6 cycles of Gemzar/Taxotere,
0ne cycle of AIM, 3 cycles of Adriamycin and 6 cycles of Yondelis” to cure the cancer.
“She had an extremely aggressive type: I know many of you got to know my mom through her postings, and we all thank you for sharing in her life and story. Now my family needs time to be together, and mourn in private.” A funeral will be held in Morristown on June 19. Please leave kind messages for Josiah and his family as they go through the mourning process. Sharon Leming, who had ovarian leiomyosarcoma wrote with such eloquence in My Life With Cancer.
Here’s an excerpt:
Once in a while, I indulge in the fantasy of what my life would be like if one day, one glorious day, the cancer was gone and I could lay claim to my life again. I dream of the things I could do, of the the good I would do for the world, of the things I have lost that might be regained.
I picture myself working, volunteering, driving, swimming, walking.
It’s a lovely, happy journey — not a self-pitying one as it might seem, but one that is full of the unfettered hope of a child, the innocent belief that anything is possible. But then of course I am not a child, and I cannot waste a lot of precious time on pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s time to gird myself up for battle again, and to concentrate on finding peace WITHIN the battle rather than dreaming of life beyond it.
Women with ovarian cancers, both carcinomas and sarcomas, have been on my mind this week. Sharon also sited Yvonne Cooper had cancer in an ovary, but she doesn’t call it ovarian cancer. “I consider my cancer to be leiomyosarcoma of ovarian origin,” she said, referring to a rare cancer that resembles smooth-muscle cells. Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) can arise almost anywhere in the body.
In the reproductive tract, LMS is much more likely to occur in the uterus.
“There are some women with ovarian sarcomas who feel like they get left out,” said Dr. Kian Behbakht,
gynecologic oncologist and associate professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. They may have friends with ovarian carcinoma, or they may know women with uterine LMS. He said the Internet can connect women with rare cancers. Cooper, who lives in Cincinnati, belongs to an online support list for LMS at www.acor.org. She was diagnosed in 2003 and has had three recurrences. She has had surgeries and chemotherapy and taken anti-angiogenic drugs.
Sarcoma’s are probably one of the worse cancers a patient can garner and when that’s combine with the fact these types are usually amongst the rarest of cancer types — with little known about them. . . .
it can become emotionally taxing.
Leiomyosarcoma and with treatments being given it can be gut wretching difficult and unresponsive with
the roller coaster ride taken from the time, hope and disappointment. Although when you consider the story
From Incurable To Incredible and this great read from Tami Boehmer mention Yvonne Cooper of Cincinnati overcoming this very incurable through the Bill Peeples Protocol and Dr. Elyse Lower
at UC Barrett Cancer Center or the right doctor elsewhere that can be found in forums.
Utilizing The Bill Peeples Protocol as Adjuvant therapy, also known as adjunct therapy, add-on therapy, and adjuvant care, is therapy that is given in addition to the primary or initial therapy to maximize its effectiveness. The surgeries and complex treatment regimens used in cancer therapy have led the term to be used mainly to describe adjuvant cancer treatments. An example of such adjuvant therapy is the additional treatment usually given after surgery where all detectable disease has been removed. This type treatment is something you may want your doctor to check out if the therapy maybe right for you?
When treating someone with ovarian LMS, a doctor may look at the literature on uterine LMS or sarcoma in general, said Dr. Matthew Anderson, director of gynecologic oncology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “It’s so rare that you have to generalize.” He’s confident that Gynecologic oncologists would know that LMS might need to be treated differently from an epithelial ovarian cancer. For example, some types of chemo are commonly used with LMS, he said, but not with epithelial ovarian cancer. “Because LMS is so rare,” Cooper said, “it is important to do some research and/or go to a sarcoma specialist to know what one’s options are when trying to access appropriate treatment.”
Yvonne recommends these Web sites:
http://www.leiomyosarcoma.info/general.htm,
www.lmsdr.org and www.
sarcomaalliance.com
http://ovarian-news.com/supportindex.html
http://www.solitarius.org/2017/12/21/working-cure/
Specialist vary in degree of experience and knowledge — Dr. Breelyn A. Wilky, M.D. is a sarcoma medical oncologist and clinical trialist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. is part of a large multidisciplinary sarcoma team including medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, pediatric oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and interventional radiologists who work together to provide comprehensive care for sarcoma patients. She spends her time taking care of patients over the age of 18 with all kinds of sarcomas, other bone and soft tissue tumors including desmoid fibromatosis, pigmented villonodular synovitis, gastrointestinal stromal tumors,
and giant cell tumor of bone.
She is also a translational researcher who conducts and designs clinical trials for sarcoma patients. She also works with laboratory researchers to translate the latest findings from bench research into early phase clinical trials. She is an expert not only in traditional chemotherapy treatments for sarcomas, but also at using modern technology such as gene sequencing and molecular profiling to identify out-of-the-box treatments particularly in targeted therapy. She is particularly interested in novel immunotherapy approaches for sarcomas.
Suzanne George, MD, director of Clinical Research, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and an associate professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses ongoing trials in soft tissue sarcoma (STS). There are several ongoing trials in STS, including in leiomyosarcoma. Although the phase III ANNOUNCE trial with Olaratumab (Lartruvo) and doxorubicin failed to confirm a clinical benefit in patients with advanced or metastatic STS compared with the use of doxorubicin alone, ongoing trials with olaratumab in combination with other chemotherapies are also being explored, says George.
https://www.bing.com/videos/
search?q=Leiomyosarcoma+
treatments+specialist&FORM=HDRSC
With leiomyosarcoma, several trials with targeted therapies are underway; however, the challenge with this approach is that physicians do not yet have a singular molecular driver for which to target, says George. Nonetheless, there are some biologic pathways that are thought to be potential vulnerabilities, including the PI3K pathway, and potentially, the mTOR pathway. Immunotherapy is another area of interest.
Contact a sarcoma specialist for updated info.
In my own right I have blogged several post about LMS because it this type took my own father 4/03/2006 http://www.solitarius.org/?s=Leiomyosarcoma
Therefore, It’s back to my Come On Kid Front line Story!!!
Leming’s debut album, Come On Kid, from Warner Bros. came out September 13, 2010. “It was emotional, and it took a long time,” Leming tells Billboard.com. “In order to make an album that everybody was happy with, and also that I felt good about, it took the good part of two years to kind of wrangle that in. While these delays were rumored to have been caused by contract disputes with 19 Entertainment, both Leming and
19 now say that the “disputes” was a misunderstanding. Come on Kid failed commercially, which prompted Warner Bros., to drop Leming from the label in late 2010.
‘AMERICAN IDOL’ CASTOFF JOSIAH LEMING SPEAKS: ‘I DON’T HAVE ANY REGRETS’
Leming recorded his music independently in Burbank, California for three years before returning to Tennessee in early Fall 2011. He then released a new single “What You’ve Taken” on February 6, 2011 in conjunction with the launch of his official website. The single was available on his website for free download until March 6, 2011.
Leming plays in different venues across the country to promote his music. He also regularly updates his Facebook and Twitter page. During a live Stickam broadcast on July 24, 2011, Leming announced he will self-release his second album September 2011; however, he later pushed the release date to October or November 2011. Leming released three singles from his second album in anticipation of its release. On September 24, 2011, he released a studio recorded version of his well-known song, “One Last Song” &
“Too Young” was released on October 24, 2011, followed by “Another Life” on November 29, 2011.
Arin Segal states: One of my favorite concerts of 2012 was definitely Josiah Leming, Buskin Cuffs and Courtney Cotter. At the show, I sat down with Josiah to talk about his music and the new album. He has a unique voice and although he sounds like he has an accent, he was born and raised in Tennessee! At a young 22 years-old, Josiah has a long career ahead.
On September 16, 2014 he released his new single and video “Long Gone” exclusively through Yahoo! Music.[15] This is the first single of his new upcoming record.
The second single ‘Can You Hear It’ was released Jan 6th, 2015.
Life Evolves and Time Changes Things. Today Josiah can be found producing new songs: Emily,
Lie With Me, Appalachia, Back to Tennessee and touring with Josiah and the Bonnevilles!!!!!
https://www.bing.com/videos/
search?q=Josiah+Lemming+songs&FORM=HDRSC3