Venus Leone

Venus Leone is a certified linguist, she's fluent in seven languages and has degrees in sound engineering as well as economics and commerce. She is a songwriter and music producer, voice and voice-over artist. She's also an actress and model. Venus Leone was born in Rimini, Italy, the daughter of a black Brazilian wonder-woman and an Italian abacist. She started dancing classical ballet at four years of age and like most left-handed people, became passionate with everything that had to do with the Arts. Moving to Switzerland with her family when she was eight years old, Venus studied and became fluent in German, French, English and Swiss-German besides Italian being her native language and Portuguese being her mother's. Venus' original dream was to become a Ballerina but besides being told that she was too "exotic" looking (hint: mom is black) by a talent scout, she also tore her ACL right after a theatrical performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" and had to stop dancing for 2 years. 

So with some parental pressure she went on to study economy and commerce. At 16 Venus stepped foot into a recording studio for the first time to record a cover of "Back to Life" for the HipHop Group LU Squad. After college and finding a job in a Business Center, Venus founded her own dance crew called "The Groove Scientists" but soon caught the attention of the leader of the "Vanity Dancers", an only female dance crew with HQ in Zurich, and toured together with the dj crew Homeboyz At Work (still existing today) around Europe as dancer and emcee. Later she joined the pop/lock dance group "Colors". As a dancer, Venus performed for/with big names like JayZ, Dj Tony Touch aka Toni Toca, Memphis Bleek, The Electric Boogaloos and many more. On a trip to G Cookin' Recording Studios in Chur to record a song featuring a Swiss artist, Venus met the producer Lou Geniuz aka Lou Zarra, who later produced her EP "Evol" and featured Venus (at the time still under the artist name KellytheVenus) on his