5’2” Bianca De Leon survived a way too close encounter with Charlie Manson, assassination by the Colombian cocaine cartel, the California Brotherhood drug mafia, being trapped in Panama City when U.S. Special Forces violently removed Manuel Noreiga, a severe allergic reaction to penicillin, a bout of Valley Fever, two horrific motorcycle wrecks, solitary confinement in a Houston jail and a mother from hell. Today she lives quietly in Austin, on a half-acre wooded lot, in a one-time shack she rebuilt into a million-dollar plus two-story house she shares with her two 4-legged guardians, a very large Akita and a coyote she rescued.
(Her unpublished book,) WILD RIDE is her survival story, an extraordinary memoir with a powerful message of female empowerment.
Along the way Bianca has recorded five critically acclaimed CDs, the most recent being DANGEROUS ENDEAVOR, a good two-word summation of her life. That life could have ended at fifteen had she not escaped Manson’s clutches just before his murderous rampage.
I sincerely hope you will want to present her story to a wide audience!
Best regards,
– – John Lomax III
Kinetic Management, Nashville, Tn
Motorcycle Rally July 10-12, 2026
ELL – IS – ON * SPORTS BAR, DALE,TEXAS
1570 FM 1854, Dale, TX, United States, 78616
Join us for Episode 1 of our Country Blues Songwriter Series featuring Dana Spigener, Bianca De Leon, and Tim Styles – three individual artists who each capture the spirit of the blues in a unique way. Experience intimate performances that showcase authentic country blues songwriting, where every lyric tells a story and every note carries the weight of genuine human experience.
🌟 Bianca De Leon at Sundance Film Festival 2025 🌟
Get ready for an unforgettable experience! The Queen of the Borderlands, Bianca De Leon, is bringing her soulful storytelling to Sundance 2025.
Performing four nights at The Cabin in Park City, Bianca will preview her highly anticipated book “Wild Ride” alongside music from her acclaimed album Dangerous Endeavor and other fan favorites.
Don’t miss this rare chance to witness an artist whose blend of Tex-Mex ballads and heartfelt lyrics has captivated audiences worldwide.
Join us for an intimate evening of music, stories, and the magic only Bianca can bring. 🎶✨
Dripping Springs Free Library
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:00 p.m.
Free Admission
501 Sportsplex Dr, Dripping Springs, Tx
(512) 858-7825
Texas Music Museum
1009 E 11th Street, Austin, Tx
Free Admission
July 19, 2024 2-3:30pm
UpsonDowns
604 Upson Street, Austin, Tx
July 20, 2024 7-9pm
Texas Music Museum presents The Lomax on Lomax Show
A preview of John Lomax III’s debut album,
“American Folk Songs”
With Special Guest, Bianca De Leon
NASHVILLE- John Lomax III, grandson and nephew of pioneering folklorists’ John Avery and Alan Lomax will return for his first local shows in eighteen months with performances set for the Dripping Springs Free Library, Texas Music Museum and a presentation by noted local singer-songwriter, Bianca DeLeon
John Lomax III celebrated his 54 continuous year in the music industry by becoming a performer and creating THE LOMAX ON LOMAX SHOW. This solo, acapella event presents songs, stories and images based on his family’s work finding, recording, preserving, and presenting unique American music and musicians over 114 years and four generations.
Lomax is also completing his debut album, AMERICAN FOLK SONGS, set for release on his 80th birthday, August 20.
Since 1970, Lomax has worked as an artist manager, journalist, label exec and, from 1996, international music distributor. He is a CMA Award winner, earning the Jo Walker Meador International Achievement Award in 2010.
The Lomax family has a long Austin history, dating from 1906 with at least 7 members attending and/or graduating from UT. TheLomaxonLomaxshow.com
CD – Dangerous Endeavor
Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freightliner Blues” in a minor key makes perfect sense when performed by Bianca De Leon, once Townes’ close confidant, now carrying on his tradition of mixing the darkness and the light in her songs of love and loss, innocence and experience, with the emphasis now firmly on experience.
A world-weary cover of Hank Williams’ “I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow” marks the other boundary of Bianca’s territory, conveying strength and resolution along with the resignation of hard fought experience. In between, her latest songs continue to weave the threads of the stories her followers have come to love over the years: solid songwriting and a voice that gets better with age – and experience.
As a young girl in south Texas, De Leon learned to smuggle tequila across the border under her petticoats, and she became familiar with cantina life, with desperadoes and secrets oscuros. She left school and was drawn to the road, hopping freight trains, living everywhere from Santa Cruz to Sonora, from Nashville to Bogota.
Dark, quiet, and ever observant, she was already fashioning her life into the substance of her art, singing of love and loss on the borderlands of love and loss, of adventure and romance, and of uncertainty and danger. When she sings of outlaws and lovers, she sings like she’s lived it and she means it – and she has, and she does.
De Leon co-produced Dangerous Endeavor with John Inman, who provided most of the backing instrumentation, while De Leon wrote all but three songs – Williams’ “Lonesome Whistle,” Will Dudley’s “Rose of a Different Thorn” and the Van Zandt’s “Freightliner.”
Dangerous Endeavor is De Leon’s fifth release. While she plans to tour extensively in the United Sates this year, she is already lining up shows in Europe where she is already a celebrated artist known for her “cuts-to-the-bone” voice and her insightful, honest songs.
Through the universality of her songs, De Leon’s music bridges all borders – geographical, cultural and emotional.
Bianca DeLeon and Kerri Powers – livestream from Cedar Lane
October 8, 2022, 7PM CST
– see Shows page.
Bianca DeLeon – Official SXSW Showcase
March 8, 2019 @ 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CST
Bianca De Leon @ Palm Door on Sixth
508 E 6th St. Austin TX 78701, Austin, Texas, US
National Women’s Day – Official SXSW