The Ohio-born Issa Leigh moved to New York City on a Chinatown bus while listening to Giorgio Moroder’s 1977 classic From Here to Eternity on repeat, but eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where he lived for eight years. But it was a seven-month visit back to NYC – “to patch up bridges, rekindle bridges, see friends and family” – that pushed him to get serious about iimbi, his musical alter ego. “I decided to come back [to Los Angeles] and really put my full foot forward, diving into music,” Leigh, seated in the lobby of Sunset Tower, tells Billboard of his debut release, Technology.
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