Gerrard, Lisa

Childhood

Lisa Gerrard was born into an Anglo-Irish family. Her parents, Nanette and John (Nanette, John), moved to Australia from the UK in search of work. The future singer grew up in the poor suburb of Melbourne Prahran, mostly populated by immigrants from the Mediterranean and the Middle East . According to Lisa herself, as a child, she loved to walk on the banks of the river, where women did laundry and often sang their national songs in languages ​​that the girl did not understand. Largely thanks to this, a peculiar manner of singing without words was formed in her. Lisa had two brothers: the eldest - John Gerrard - ml. and the younger Mark (tragically died in 1996).

In Dead Can Dance

Lisa's musical career began in 1981. It was then that the 7-inch single “Centerfold” of the Melbourne punk band Microfilm, with her vocals (songs “Centerfold” and “Window”) was released. Until 1998, along with Brendan Perry, she was one of the main members of the Dead Can Dance group.

Lisa Gerrard's Biography on Dead Can Dance: see Dead Can Dance

In the late 80s. Gerrard and Perry lived for some time in Barcelona ( Spain ). In 1989, Lisa starred in the anti-utopian film directed by Agustin Villaronga “Child of the Moon” (“Moon Child”, Spanish “El Nino de la Luna” ) in one of the main roles, which remains her only acting work in the cinema.

In 1995, she took up solo work, recording the album “The Mirror Pool”. The song “Sanvean” from this album (first appeared on the Dead Can Dance live album “Toward The Within”) has become one of the singer’s most famous career.

In 1996, the last Dead Can Dance album, “Spiritchaser”, was released before the band broke up. It is dedicated to the younger brother of Lisa, Mark, who died in the same year in a car accident.

Solo career

In 1998, as a result of a creative conflict during the recording of the eighth studio album, Dead Can Dance broke up, and Lisa fully embarked on a solo career. A year later, the album “Duality” was released, recorded in collaboration with Australian electronic musician Peter Burke .

In the late 90s - early 2000s. Gerrard became especially famous for creating music for films (Anger, Own Man, Ali, Mission Impossible 2 , Riding a Whale ). In 2001, she, together with co-author Hans Zimmer , received the Golden Globe Award for the soundtrack for the movie Gladiator . This music was also nominated for an Academy Award .

Gerrard uses glossolalia , voice recording, much more often than he sings in the traditional sense. Her repertoire contains only a few songs in English (for example, “The Human Game” from the album “Duality”), the rest simply do not have lyrics. She plays various instruments, including ethnic ones, especially skillfully on yangtsin .

In 2002, Lisa recorded a duet with Breton folk singer Denez Prigent. The song "Gortoz A Ran (J'attends)" was released on his album "Irvi", and was also used in the soundtrack for the movie " Black Hawk ."

Lisa Gerrard willingly collaborates with representatives of electronic music , who (among them Orbital , Delerium , The Future Sound Of London ) also often use samples with her singing in their compositions.

In 2004, the album "Immortal Memory" was released, created by Lisa in collaboration with the Irish composer Patrick Cassidy . Part of the compositions from the disk was originally intended for the soundtrack to Mel Gibson 's film “ Passion of Christ ”, but they did not get into the picture. The album was the last one released on the 4AD label - after the end of the multi-year contract, the parties did not renew it. At the same time, Lisa worked on the solo album "Mantras of a Lost Archetype", but for unknown reasons he was never released, only the track list was released. Gerrard performs some songs from this album at concerts.

In the same year, composer Ennio Morricone invited Lisa Gerrard as vocalist to record the soundtrack for the Hungarian film " Without Fate " dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust .

In 2005, Gerrard and Perry temporarily teamed up for a concert tour of Europe and North America. Within its framework, they gave on April 3 in St. Petersburg the only concert of those reanimated at the time of Dead Can Dance in Russia.

In September 2006, the British documentary filmmaker Clive Collier's film “Sanctuary” was released, telling about the singer’s creative career and the ups and downs of her personal life. A few weeks later, Lisa's second solo album, “The Silver Tree,” was released on a CD only in Australia. In the spring of 2007, he was reissued in several European countries, the USA and Canada. Then the former label of Lisa 4AD released a collection of her best things, including solo works, music for films, and songs from the albums of Dead Can Dance.

Lisa Gerrard has two daughters, Lashna and Teresa (Lashna, Teresa), born in a marriage with designer Jacek Tuschewski. She lives with them on her own farm in the vicinity of the town of Moe in the Gipsland area (in southeastern Australia, Victoria ). Here is her own studio.

In the fall of 2007, as part of a tour in support of The Silver Tree, Lisa Gerrard performed in St. Petersburg (November 20, Music Hall) and in Moscow (November 22, Estrada Theater).

In December 2007, Lisa recorded a joint program with German composer and electronic music performer Klaus Schulze . A double album, entitled " Farscape ", was released in July 2008. Joint concert performances of musicians are presented on the albums “ Rheingold. Live at the Loreley ”(2 CDs and DVDs) and“ Dziekuje Bardzo-Vielen Dank ”(3CDs and DVDs). Additional material recorded in the studio together with Schulze was included on the mini-album “ Come Quietly ” (2009), which was sold at the concerts of Lisa and Klaus. Scheduled for release album " Farscape 2".

In 2009, Gerrard wrote the soundtrack for the action movie "Balibo", receiving two film awards for this work - "APRA Screen Music Awards" and "Aria Awards".

Lisa Gerrard was helped by Michael Edwards, Patrick Cassidy, Peter Bourke and James Orr on the solo album The Black Opal. The record includes a number of songs performed by the singer during the last round (“Sleep”, “Desert Song”, “Black Forest”, “Serpent and the Dove” and “On an Ocean”), as well as new compositions and a cover for Bob’s song Dylan's “ All Along the Watchtower ”. The album was released in November 2009 in electronic form (sold on the singer’s official website), and on physical media it became available in 2010 in standard and deluxe editions (the latter contains a video clip and bonus tracks on an additional dvd). “The Black Opal” was the first album released by Lisa Gerrard on her own label Gerrard Records.

In addition, Gerrard worked simultaneously on music for a number of films: the Japanese Ichi, the Australian Playing for Charlie, as well as Defector (a documentary about the Cold War).

In July 2010, the album “Departum” was released on the Gerrard Records label (Lisa’s collaboration with Marcello De Francisci ).

Reunion

In 2012, 7 years after the last general tour, Gerrard and Perry reunited again and went on a concert tour in support of the Anastasis album.

Discography of Lisa Gerrard with Dead Can Dance: see Dead Can Dance

Solo albums

• 1995 The Mirror Pool
• 2003 Whale rider (soundtrack)
• 2006 The Silver Tree (release on iTunes and Rubber Records , in 2007 re-released in a number of countries with bonus tracks)
• 2007 Lisa Gerrard (The Best Of)
• 2009 Balibo (soundtrack)
• 2009 The Black Opal
• 2014 Twilight Kingdom

Collaborative Albums

• 1998 Duality (with Peter Burke )
• 1999 The Insider (soundtrack, with Peter Burke )
• 2000 Gladiator (soundtrack, with Hans Zimmer )
• 2001 More Music From The Motion Picture Gladiator (soundtrack, with Hans Zimmer )
• 2004 Immortal Memory (with Patrick Cassidy )
• 2005 A Thousand Roads (soundtrack, with Jeff Ron )
• 2006 Ashes and Snow (soundtrack, with Patrick Cassidy , tracks "Devota", "Vespers", "Womb", "Wisdom")
• 2008 Farscape (with Klaus Schulze )
• 2008 Rheingold: Live at the Loreley (live, with Klaus Schulze )
• 2008 Ichi (soundtrack, with Michael Edwards)
• 2009 Dziekuje Bardzo (concert, with Klaus Schulze )
• 2010 Departum (with Marcello De Francisci )
• 2010 The Trail Of Genghis Khan (with Cye Wood)
• 2018 BooCheeMish (with The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices)
• 2018 Hiraeth (with David Cookeermann)

Singles and EPs

• 1994 Deux Titres Live (La Bas, Lament)
• 1995 Sanvean
• 1998 The Human Game (with Peter Burke )
• 2000 Now We Are Free (with Hans Zimmer )
• 2003 Abwoon (with Patrick Cassidy )
• 2004 One Perfect Sunrise (with Orbital )
• 2009 Come Quietly (EP, with Klaus Schulze )
• 2009 Hommage A Polska (with Klaus Schulze )

Miscellaneous

• MICROFILM: Centerfold 7 "(" Centerfold "&" Window ") (1981)
• Collection “From Belgrave with love” (“Mossaic” by Lisa Gerrard & “Summer house” by Microfilm) 1981
• The Future Sound of London sampled Lisa's vocals from the song “Dawn of the Iconoclast” for their hit single “Papua New Guinea” (1992)
• Collection "These wings without feathers" ("Dreamsong" & "Untitled") (1996)
• “The wings of a film - the music of Hans Zimmer” (“Now we are free”, live performance)
• With Orbital: “One Perfect Sunrise” on “The Blue Album” (2004)
• Orbital featuring Lisa Gerrard: One perfect sunrise (radio mix) CD single
• Orbital featuring Lisa Gerrard: One perfect sunrise (Phil Hartnoll mix) CD single
• “J'Attends - Gortoz A Ran” duet with Denez Prizhan on his album “Irvi”, used in the soundtrack for the movie “Black Hawk”
• “An Hini a Garan” - a duet with Denez Prizhany on his album “Sara'c”
• Mantras of a lost archetype - unreleased solo album
• Art Exhibition " Ashes and Snow " by Gregory Colbert

Contributing to Soundtracks

• 2:22 (2017) with James Orr
• Jane takes the gun (2016)
• The Bible (2013) with Hans Zimmer
• From Ararat to Zion (2010) with Ara Torosyan
• Balibo (2009)
• Playing for Charlie (2008)
• Mist (2007) (Dead Can Dance) - The Host of Seraphim song
• A Seal's Life (2006) with Patrick Cassidy
• The Greater Meaning of Water (2006) previously recorded material
• Seoul Train (2005)
• Without Fate (2005) with Ennio Morricone (“A song”, “A voice from the inside”, “Return to the life”)
• Konstantin: Lord of Darkness (2005) (record not finished)
• A Thousand Roads (2005) with Jeff Rona
• King Arthur (2004) - song “Amergin's Invocation”
• Layer Cake (2004)
• Salimov inheritance (mini-series) (2004) with Patrick Cassidy and Christopher Gordon
• Anger (2004) vocals
• Passion of Christ (2004) with Patrick Cassidy (the music didn’t get into the film, then it was used in the album “Immortal Memory”)
• One Perfect Day (2004)
• The series "The West Wing" (2003) - the song "Sanvean" in the episode "7A WF 83429"
• Tears of the Sun (2003) with Hans Zimmer
• Riding a whale (2002)
• Ali (2001) with Peter Burke
• "Ali" original soundtrack II.
• Black Hawk (2001) - song: “J'Attends - Gortoz A Ran” with Denise Prizhan
• Mission Impossible 2 (2000) with Hans Zimmer
• Gladiator (2000) with Hans Zimmer
• The Man (1999) with Peter Burke
• Thirteenth Warrior (1999) with Graeme Revell (movie entry not used)
• Nadro (1998)
• Heat (1995) material from The Mirror Pool .
• Baraka (1992) (Dead Can Dance)
• Lunar Child (1989) (Dead Can Dance)
• Demoni 2 (1986) (Dead Can Dance)

Movie Roles

• 1989 Georgina ("El niño de la luna")

Documentary Films

• 1994 Toward The Within ( Dead Can Dance Concert)
• 2006 Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard

Video

• 1984 Frontier ( Dead Can Dance )
• 1992 The Host Of Seraphim ( Dead Can Dance )
• 1993 Yulunga ( Dead Can Dance )
• 1995 Sanvean
• 1999 The Human Game
• 2001 Now We Are Free
• 2002 Gortoz A Ran (J'attends) (Denez Prigent)
• 2004 One Perfect Sunrise ( Orbital )
• 2006 Come Tenderness

• sToa
• Camerata Mediolanense
• Goethes erben

• Official site
• Site of the film "Sanctuary"
• Lisa Gerrard on the Internet Movie Database
• Sanvean video clip on 4AD label website
• Dead can dance library
• The owner of a unique voice, ex-vocalist of Dead Can Dance and film composer Lisa Gerrard - 50! An article on the Komsomolskaya Pravda website