Winer began her career as a fashion model in the early 1980s after moving to New York City from Massachusetts to attend the School of Visual Arts. Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier described Winer as “the first androgynous model. She lived with American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat during her early career. Before modelling Winer met William S. Burroughs in the late ’70s and credits him with being a major mentor. Burroughs mentions his friendship with Winer in a number of interviews and books with French journalist Alain Pacadis and Burroughs’ own last book Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs. After her work brought her to London in the mid-1980s, she spent a great deal of time at Leigh Bowery’s nightclub, Taboo. It was while in London she met musicians Jah Wobble, who was a former bassist for Public Image Ltd, and Kevin Mooney, former bass player for Adam and the Ants. In 1987, she would co-write the track “Just Call Me Joe” with Sinéad O’Connor. The song would appear on O’Connor’s debut album The Lion and the Cobra, with Winer performing the backup spoken vocal. With Wobble and Mooney, she would record the album Witch in 1990. She had previously recorded a couple of 12″ singles under the name ‘©’ along with co-writer Karl Bonnie from Renegade Soundwave. She has also worked with Grace Jones.  Winer was born to a teenager and handed over to her adoptive grandmother in a hospital parking lot in what was an illegal adoption involving the exchange of money.-  Wikipedia

“Leslie Winer is a bit of a mystery. Before working as a well-known fashion model in New York, where she got a reputation for being “difficult to work with”, she met William Burroughs and Jean-Michel Basquiat, dropped out of the scene, and produced “Witch”, prescient album (called the grandmother of trip hop by NME). Then she seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, only to occasionally resurface doing vocals for artists like Bomb The Bass and Mekon.” – Discogs

“Musician, poet, and author Leslie Winer lives in the rural French countryside, an unassuming and almost nomadic life that gives away little of her fascinating, hidden legacy. Several memorable nuggets of trivia have long circulated about Winer: that she was the “first anondrogynous supermodel” and muse of Jean-Paul Gauthier; that she was “the Grandmother of Trip-Hop,” and an associate of William S. Burroughs. Though she has long been a name on the shelves of dedicated record collectors, Winer has kept a low profile. Her first album, Witch was recorded in London in the late ‘80s, where fashion and music intersected fluidly. Winer shared circles and studio time with musicians such as PiL bassist Jah Wobble as well as Kevin Mooney of Adam and The Ants.” Bandcamp