About Le'Dawn

Le’Dawn | Suburban Rapstress with a Flair
Le'Dawn is a female hip hop artist from Little Rock, Arkansas. She's been performing since the age of 4 and writing songs since the age of 17.
Le’Dawn first caught the performance bug when she began taking dance lessons at Dance Works studio in Maumelle at the age of 3 and continued until the school closed when she was 14. She trained in ballet, tap and modern dance. Her parents then enrolled her in Parkview Arts/Sciences Magnet high school where she continued to explore and nurture that performance bug through band, orchestra, and theater with the help and encouragement of her teachers.
While there, she studied music theory, clarinet, piano, violin and theater. She competed in All Region and All State band, All Region Orchestra, Concert Contest, Marching Band and other events. She participated in the spring musicals during her freshmen year (“High School Musical” as a chorus member), junior year (“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” as a chorus member), and senior year (“Anything Goes” as an ensemble member).
In her junior year she auditioned and was accepted as part of the Arkansas Youth Symphony Orchestra (2008-2010) after learning and playing the violin for just two years. For her senior project, she composed several string quartet pieces for violin, viola, cello and bass which earned her the Orchestra Magnet seal when she graduated in May 2010.

While completing her freshmen year at the University of Central Arkansas at Conway, Le’Dawn (at the time known as Terika “tear-eh-kah”), she participated in her dorm’s open mic night where she performed her first rap a Capella in front of her first crowd of friends, acquaintances and strangers. She talked about it in a 2015 interview with Fresh Daily, Inc. blog:
“Rapping for the first time in public was a turning point for me musically. And I performed this rap I wrote a Capella. I spent that whole year really studying the art and the history