Unflinching honesty, a snappy sense of humor, and the compelling storytelling of her home genre, country, are quickly becoming Piper Leone’s musical signature. Her knack for clever wordplay and lines that land like the punchline of a joke makes for songs as likely to make you laugh as they are to make you cry — sometimes both at the same time — and her insight and understanding of herself and others makes her songs feel as much like epiphanies as they do confessions.

Although she is now based in LA, Leone was raised in Northern California, splitting time between Sacramento and North Lake Tahoe, and spending her time riding horses, writing songs, and competing as a nationally ranked athlete in multiple sports. When her competitive athletic career was cut short in her freshman year of college by an injury, Leone turned back towards music, and her days and nights are now filled with songwriting, playing gigs, dancing, and riding horses.

Raised on the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, George Strait, and Joni Mitchell, the 25-year-old singer also counts more contemporary acts like Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, and Taylor Swift as some of her biggest influences. 

"Joke's on Me," a self-deprecating yet cutting breakup song that Leone released in February of 2025, has been featured on multiple playlists and prompted Glide Magazine to compare her to the likes of Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, and Kacey Musgraves. Her first EP “If I’d Have Known Better”, which Tinnitist called “a cartography for young adulthood,”  is a kind of musical scrapbook — a collection of songs from her high school and college years about young love, heartbreak, and lessons learned. 

Leone’s most recent single, “I Wanna Call You,” released in February of 2026, shows an artist who has moved past the high school halls and college football field heartbreak of her debut EP and is dipping her toe (and her pen) into the complexities of more mature relationships and the restraint required to navigate them. 

Her next single, “Cost of Loving,” a devil-may-care ode to the many pitfalls of life and love, is a reminder of the importance of playfulness and recklessness alongside that restraint. Both songs will be included on her upcoming E.P., “The Cost of Loving.”