Lisanne was born on the 4th of July in the south west part of England. Upon leaving the warmth of her mother’s womb. she realized that retaining a sense of humour was going to be part of her every day attire, and that life is really a huge adventure. She got the call to travel at age 21 and did many different jobs, from making pies in Spain, to waitressing in California and being a DJ on a Greek cruise ship. She studied acting in Los Angeles and did her first film in Argentina, “Apartment Zero”, starring Colin Firth. When she heard a small quiet voice on her shoulder say “do the music,” instead of thinking she should see a doctor, she dove right into discovering many sounds, ancient and new, that sang through and out of her.
In 1991 her one-woman play, "The Bald Waitress," debuted at Los Angeles' Rose Theater, written and performed by Lisanne, directed by Leslie Kyle-Wilson. Playing many different characters, Lisanne's memoir performance wove its way from her adolescent days in a weirdly Gothic English boarding school to her survival-arrival in the circus atmosphere of the Venice Beach boardwalk in LA, where she took on jobs as varied as Thanksgiving turkey, a Valentine clown and referring people to a dentist near them. Her unique blend of Pythonesque humor, plaintive melodies and searing lyrics investigating the strangeness of youth, and remembering the truth of who we are.
In 1992 she went full force with her music. Her first CD, "Lisanne," explored the lives of women, cellulite and all, followed by "Trance Ported," where her vocal talents and experimentation with voice-as-instrument began to explode. Her latest CD, "Life in Full Bloom," released in June 2006, takes the subject into new realms: pure joy of sound and pure joy of vibration. She has opened for Marianne Williamson and most recently, performed a sold-out crowd with bestselling author of Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg, as part of the SOMOS Performance Series in Taos, New Mexico.
Ever moving into deeper and more primal avenues, Lisanne is at work on a fourth CD, recording in sacred places of New Mexico. Using spirit frequencies and vibrational restoration through the healing sounds of her voice, Lisanne is entering new dimensions and invites you to keep an ear open for "Soul Sounds."
"Jungle Seranade," a song from "Trance Ported," is now appearing in the independent film, "Why George," directed by Jo Cacai.
Lisanne contines to tour and produce music, and lives in Taos, New Mexico.
“Lisanne’s music has the ability to send you into another dimension made up of heart sounds, wordless rhythms and frequencies that send tingles up the spine. Her voice is like no other. At turns she is a drum, a flute, an animal call, an ancient’s lament. Her throat is an instrument that guides the listener into their own visionary spaces. Her art is that of transcendence, of opening with joyfulness to our boundless possibilities”.
-- Magdalane Smith, author of “Flirty Fishing”
Photo by Lenny Foster
