Lisa Gerrard (born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and com… Read Full Bio ↴Lisa Gerrard (born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).

Since her career began in 1981, Gerrard has been involved in a wide range of projects. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer.

Lisa Gerrard was born on 12 April 1961 in Melbourne, and grew up in the suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents. She has said that 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 works.

Gerrard's first foray into forming bands and creative music-making was in Melbourne's little band scene, an experimental post-punk scene which flourished from 1978 until 1981. It was at one of these little band events that she first met Dead Can Dance co-founder Brendan Perry. Perry recalls, "It never occurred to me that we would one day collaborate musically together because at the time I thought her music was too avant garde. I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks".

Dead Can Dance originally formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, but in 1982 moved to London with members Gerrard, Brendan Perry and bass player Paul Erikson. Shortly after coming to England, Erikson flew back to Australia, leaving the band as a duo. Dead Can Dance recorded eight albums on the 4AD Records recording label beginning with the self-titled Dead Can Dance LP in 1984. In 2005, the song "Nierika" became part of the opening titles for Mexican television station TV Azteca's soap opera "La Chacala". The band split in 1998, but reunited in 2005 for a world tour. In 2012, the band announced a new world tour to coincide with the release of their new album, Anastasis.

Gerrard possesses the vocal range of a contralto but can also reach upward into the mezzo-soprano range. Her voice has been described as rich, deep, dark, mournful and unique.

Examples of Gerrard's mezzo-soprano range include the songs "The Host of Seraphim", "Elegy", "Space Weaver", "Come This Way" and "One Perfect Sunrise". Gerrard however performs more predominantly in the dramatic contralto range in her other songs, "Sanvean", "Sacrifice", "Largo", "Lament" and "Not Yet".

Gerrard sings many of her songs, such as "Now We Are Free", "Come Tenderness", "Serenity", "The Valley of the Moon", "Tempest", "Pilgrimage of Lost Children", "Coming Home" and "Sanvean" in idioglossia. With respect to such work she has said, "I sing in the language of the Heart. It's an invented language that I've had for a very long time. I believe I started singing in it when I was about 12. Roughly that time. And I believed that I was speaking to God when I sang in that language."

Gerrard was married to Polish graphic design artist and music producer Jacek Tuschewski, with whom she has a daughter (born 1992).

Her nephew Jack Gerrard plays for Cairns post-hardcore act Almost a Square as the drummer and back-up vocalist.

Adrift
Lisa Gerrard Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Adrift' by these artists:

11th Dimension Remember the time when you held your head up high And…
A Greater Danger Feels like I'm lost not to be found Strings on my heart They…
Against The Inspiration I feel that the faster everything vanishes around me The fir…
Air Formation If only I'd have waited to say those words Can't escape…
Akai I've lost all faith in your once friendly smile now that…
Alda Though I dissolve I am not afraid For from whence we came We…
Andy Kay You feel lost Time is passing by and you feel like…
Barenaked Ladies Ever since we said our good-byes The onion rings, the phone…
Ben & Alfie You feel your walls come crashing down, no one around,…

Cranes We're like a boat drifting In a lonely sea And the stars…
Cult of Luna In his arms, locked in that iron grip nothing will…
D.C.D It is dead in that sound Listing emptily The voyage no longe…
Digital Ruin I've always been one to follow through With all the things…
Echobrain For too long I struggle Strive for nothing cold earth I…
End Bring me the light Gotta get going Gotta get moving The dar…
Enshine Haze Just the hollow Of a lonely dawn Left with the horizon …
Foreign Waves Feel the light now take flight…
Forgotten Tomb Waging the war of nerves again The silence of the ones…
G. Strizzolo Your soul is adrift Softly floating out along the sea…
George Barbera A breeze gets lost across the sea Moonlight's gliding on thi…
Heather Dale "Lover, dear lover, I've had a fell dream, My mother's adri…
Hickory Bleed me out Check my humors Close your mouth Your tongue is…
Hollow Coves Lately, I've been contemplating all that's in my head Trying…
I Create Wait, this is wrong. No, this is not fucking right. There…
I the Mighty It's such a gift and a curse, how small we've…
Ilse DeLange We fall into the ocean We're breathin' under water Don't k…
J!MMY There are flowers In my heart But you tore it…
Jack Johnson Your voice is adrift I can't expect it to sing…
Jesse Marchant Tied to what is late, ain't you now Adrift, I know…
Junction 18 out my window it rains it cleanses through you upon you th…
Lethargy of Death Tides of sorrow Damn burden I know the poison And the bitter…
Lil You make me feel adrift in my own body It's pretty…
Limited Time Empty lost inside Fallen kingdom a mile wide Awoken feelings…
Lunatic Soul I know we're passing by See the shadows of our own Apart…
Matt Stewart-Evans I hear people saying One more day you'll break him It's comi…
Mind Piece Tell me things will be better while you smile And…
Mira I'm drifting and I cannot see what has come over…
Morosity Drifting out to open water No sail, just wind and waves…
Neras Burnt out and dreamless Alone and unkempt Entombed in bloodl…
Oxiplegatz Dying I fly The moment of death still in my eye My…
Papercut feat. Kristin Mainhart How long with this storm This long and lonely road With no…
Reffer His boat slides over the sea Like sharp razor Adrift, aiml…
Revile I'm reading the stars through the ceiling, From the ocean f…
S.P.Y The camera pans the cocktail glass, Behind a blind of plast…
Shalee You feel your walls come crashing down No one around you're …
Simon Imrei Don't throw it all in, and leave yourself open I say…
Soul Gutter In your name I have gone this far A witness, a…
Soulspell [Judith - Daisa] Something is different But I didn't know …
Stauros You may arrange as you prefer Ideas that start from shortcut…
The Crüxshadows I lost sight of the raging waters Below the surface where…
Thee-O & Erin Powers It is dead in that sound Listing emptily The voyage no longe…
Tycho (instrumental)…
Vök Find yourself in a strangest place Don't know where you were…
Wave Goodbye I've taken these steps, but I don't know if it's…
Wino The dream belief with a black turning sea Where the sun…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Lisa Gerrard:

Abwoon Abwoom d, bwahmaya Nethqadash shmakh Teytey malkuthakh Ne…
All Along the Watchtower "There must be some way out of here" Said the joker…
Badelt Zimmer: Now We Are Free Anol shalom Anol sheh lay konnud de ne um Flavum nom de…
Black Forest Why realise The life of the hidden Within disguise They c…
Come Tenderness Spending all my nights, all my money going out of…
Elegy Some days it gets completely crazy And I feel like howlin'…
Gortoz a ran Gortozet 'm eus, gortozet pell E skeud teñval tourioù gell E…
La Bas We the drowned Hold our hollow ... Til we swallow ourselves …
Largo Ombra mai fu, di vegetabile cara ed amabile, soave pi`u.…
Now We Are Free Anol shadon Anol sheh lay konnud de ne um Flavum nom de…
Psallit In Aure Dei Non clamor sed amor Non vox sed votum Non cordula sed cor …
Sacrifice Hear one thousand screams Hear one thousand voices A solit…
Serenity All-4-One On & On Smile Like Mona Lisa Oh, i carry a phot…
Sleep My attends to you As a mother hears While her children sle…
Space Weaver My precious love Can only come From above In unity Is born a…
The Human Game Under the sun I call your name I revise your inner…
The Maharaja When the Ma- Haraja comes He brings the sun He draws upon…
The Serpent & The Dove Once there was a secret union A serpent and a dove Enchanted…
The Song Of Amergin An gaeth I m-muir Am tond trethan Am fuaim mara Am dam secht…

Too Far Gone I am drowning Not waving Here in the darkness I’ll find m…

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