Lesley Sohl was an art student, occasional singer and a poet who hazarded upon Montréal's musical underground when she joined cousin Peter Bowman-Pease and Charles Kos in a band called Leviticus. She ventured into the world of nouvelle vague upon joining Visiting the Zoo, a moderately successful band that featured Kos on lead guitar, Mack Kenzie on rhythm/lead guitar, and Stewart G. on Drums. Lesley played bass and sang lead and backup alongside Kos.

VTZ disbanded in late 1981 only to be reborn with an entirely different lineup, under the artistic control of Johnstone, who pulled the band further into punk. Kos and Sohl continued to work together.

When Sohl won a scholarship to study visual art at the Banff Center, Kos followed. It is in Banff that these songs were recorded, alongside "One Day," a song project that Kos was working on at the time. Five of the eight songs presented on the maxi single were recordings that were made for "One Day," the others are all new takes on songs that had appeared on "Ion Transfer Process," released in 1981. Sohl made a compositional contribution to all of the songs on this maxi single, and that is why she chose them.

 

Sohl worked with Kos on two projects following "super vedette." Neither featured her as a vocalist. Although Kos recorded one song with Lesley during this period, it was but a brief three minute song on a music project that exceeded four hours, and it was not included on the one-hour digest of "Frequency," released in 1984. During autumn 1985, Sohl recorded two songs for "When We Lie Irate," which Kos didn't release. They also worked on "We have all the time in the world," a cover song. It was never completed (although a version with only voice and piano was mastered for, but did not make it on to the 1994 retrospective titled "After the lost decade").

Lesley Sohl is currently working on "Kinky Boots" with The Terminal Dissonance, and is developing a concept album comprised of other artists' music. She is also working on a follow-up to "super vedette" that will be titled "Starwoman." It will feature songs that she wrote with Kos in the early 1980's but didn't record. Until any one of these projects is completed, "super vedette" is the best way to hear what Sohl's voice, shiver up your spine and all, is all about.