Lisa Gerrard

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Australia (1981 – present)

Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who gained international renown as part of the music group Dead Can Dance together with Brendan Perry. Her career spans from 1981 to the present, and she has been involved in a wide range of projects. Gerrard received a Golden Globe award and her score for the 2000 film Gladiator received an Academy Award nomination. She both sings and is instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the Yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).

Early life

Born April 12, 1961 in Melbourne, Lisa Gerrard grew up in the Greek-Turkish suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents. On her upbringing, she has said she grew up with “Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses”, and that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative work.

Career

Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance originally formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, but in 1982 moved to London with members Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard and bass player Paul Erikson. The latter would shortly after fly back to Australia, leaving the band as a duo. Dead Can Dance recorded eight albums on the 4AD Records recording label beginning with the 1984 LP, Dead Can Dance. The band split in 1998, but reunited in 2005 for a world tour.

Solo and collaborative career

In 1995 she recorded and released her first solo album, titled The Mirror Pool.

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sonicdruid wrote:
Saturday evening

Lovers of Lisa will also like this forest songstress::: http://www.last.fm/music/Zoetic

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ellivu wrote:
Thursday afternoon

pure beauty & bliss. adorably.

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DunkelAesthet wrote:
last week

Welcome in NEW last.fm group Dark Monastery

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WingsOfSeraphim wrote:
13 days ago

Now whaddya think about that: THE BLACK OPAL http://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Gerrard/The+Black+Opal?setlang=en and BALiBO fully streamable! [for some strange reason the Balibo link doesn't work, but now it's listed among her albums as well]. COME QUiETLY: http://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Gerrard/Come+Quietly?setlang=en. Someone's very generous. Patience will be rewarded. =)

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Athalie wrote:
14 days ago

♥♥♥♥♥ TT w TT

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Kining wrote:
14 days ago

Cause it s brand new same reason many other albums from different artists are not listed, only the really comercial ones get to be listed even before coming out, in this case: sometimes they can take up to 1 year to fix this. Lastfm shoud be more eficient.

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aydinhabibi wrote:
16 days ago

Why "Black Opal" is not listed in albums?

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Killerdwarf wrote:
21 days ago

eine verehrungswürdige Stimme!

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GlutesGuy wrote:
24 days ago

Great Music!

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bastian00 wrote:
24 days ago

new album - magical

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mr_Pillow wrote:
24 days ago

Her rendition of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" surprised me. I would never have expected trip-hop from Lisa. Good try.

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hassanov wrote:
25 days ago

The blakc Opal album is amazing mind exploding one....Great music !!!

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eineingarp wrote:
25 days ago

black forest... mniam ;)

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MasonMaverick wrote:
27 days ago

This is about the fifth time i'v had to retype this comment..I can't seem to find a description that adequately justifies her absolute awesomeness. I think she gets closer to pure vocal expession than anyone i have encountered before. Closing her eyes and allowing her voice to ride her emotions like a roller coaster. The world would a poor place without her.

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shinoque wrote:
last month

Vote for this new, natural, pleasanr, full of life photo, please: http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Lisa+Gerrard/+images/36490797

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Viajando wrote:
last month

Redemption es maravilloso

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undrentide72 wrote:
last month

the black opals ok but again wheres the new stuff? some of these songs have been around for quite some time now! she needs to stop making albums full of old stuff she's had lying around and rejected soundtrack peices. Yes its a lovely album but theres nothing on there to make it a truly special album...

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Grindak wrote:
last month

The Queen has spoken again...

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WingsOfSeraphim wrote:
last month

Unfortunately last.fm does not even recognize "Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard" as a valid artist, therefore you can only scrobble the Gladiator soundtrack by "Hans Zimmer" (which in my opinion is not correct since there were lots of other people involved...but i guess there's more to life than last.fm's tidiness). Lisa also contributed to his "Tears of the Sun" soundtrack. =) The Black Opal is THE epicness. -+.+-

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Vaski wrote:
last month

You can't add anything to similar artists. Similar artists (as far as I know, anyway) are those artists that the people that listen to Lisa Gerrard also listen to, so they are calculated automatically.

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