Lacey Sturm

About

Lacey Nicole Sturm (née Mosley, previously Carder; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Flyleaf. In February 2016, Sturm became the first solo female artist to top the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with her debut release Life Screams.

In 2000, Sturm began to play with drummer James Culpepper. The pair worked with guitarists Sameer Bhattacharya and Jared Hartmann. In 2002, Pat Seals, Flyleaf’s current bassist, joined, forming a group named Passerby. For legal reasons, they renamed themselves Flyleaf in June 2004.
On October 22, 2012, shortly before the release of New Horizons, Sturm revealed that she had amicably left Flyleaf. The album was nominated for the 2012 Rock Album of the Year Dove Award.
In an interview promoting her book The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living, Sturm explained that a primary reason for her leaving the band was the death of the band’s sound engineer. The band performed one last show as a means to help the sound engineer’s wife and child. This experience caused Sturm to consider her own son and wonder what she would do if she knew she had only…