Leyna d’Ancona | Writer

Leyna d’Ancona was born in Berkeley California, the “Summer of Love” in the heyday of the folk-rock scene. Rock stars, ambitious entrepreneurs and justice fighters raised their free-range children to the soundtrack of political chants and live music.
At a young age she learned to push boundaries form the Merry Pranksters, road tripped with “Dead Heads” and danced with her best friends’ dad’s gold records from his band CCR. This environment-as-normal shaped her world-view. A Cal graduate at the height of the dotcom boom, survivor of two cultural revolutions and witness by happenstance to the rise and fall of arena rock bands, Leyna artfully combines skill with memory to write the story of Grunge Musical.