Leoncie was born in
Goa in India. She is of Indian and Portuguese descent (Goa was a
Portuguese Colony until 1961). She studied music at
Trinity College Of Music London. In 1982 she moved to
Kópavogur, Iceland after marrying an Icelander, where she worked as an entertainer. A singer-songwriter, she has been compared to
Madonna and the
Peruvian entertainer
Tigresa del Oriente. In 2003,
Morgunblaðið called her "one of the most unusual and controversial artists in the country." In 2016, journalist called her "the
enfant terrible of Icelandic outsider music." == Discography ==