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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. Read Full BioLisa 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.

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Earth
Lisa Gerrard Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Earth' by these artists:

A Boy and his Blob It was just the beginning I think that I was meant…
A.J. Shanti Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain I…
Absent Hearts I hear a warning as broken earth begins to breathe I…
Ador Dorath She concealed you from herself When wells opened their arm…
Atheist A bounded sphere of wisdom Spinning to create the now Upon i…
B and Not B Endless distance Wildlife and stars Blanket the night You…
Beborn Beton A giant cloud up in the sky The things she saw…
C.A.B. Hey, sugar hey you think I'd ever let you go Get…
Cenobita Free your mind from the untrue And help the world to…
Colour Haze Goddess you gotta save The beauty all of this place All th…
Cress do you think we'll see two thousand, do you think…
Darkel We belong to the earth doesn't belong to us…
David Schombert Heart Tells To Rise High In The Sky... Moment I Had…
Demians We are feeding the machine From this inner cage I made…
Deu Galih & Folks Brothers, remember today, your life is beautiful, here on ea…
Devin Townsend I know! Raised before the sky bleeds For we are, we are…
Dream Koala Have you ever seen the lights Of a thousand exploding suns?…
Earth and Pillars What do I see On the icy plains The desolate one It's my…
Earth/KK Null What do I see On the icy plains The desolate one It's my…
Eclipse Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, heaven is…
Evil Nine It is cold, airless, forbidding. The very precision of its…
G.B.AmbientMusic Endless distance Wildlife and stars Blanket the night You…
H.Z. Where the mountains meet the sky I watch dreams through the…
High And Mighty Color All the things will end. they can't stop fighting. All the…
I.O.N.U. Heaven on earth We need it now I'm sick of all of…
Imogen Heap Baby, behave, we'll make it work Baby, behave, we'll make it…
Imogen Heap Imogen Heap Baby, behave, we'll make it work Baby, behave, we'll make i…
K-391 The human race is dead There's not a single head…
Kids Learning Tube I am the Earth The only planet with organic life With 8.7…
Kismet H.C. Hey, sugar hey you think I'd ever let you go Get…
L. A. Tom Rudy's on the midway And Jacob's in the hole The monkey's on…
Lil Dicky What up, world? It's your boy, just one of the…
LINCOLN! You took and You take our sins away, oh God You…
Lisa Germano Enough Enough Enough How much Can I Accept Enough Rem…
Love And Rockets All the little life forms Upon this little Earth Multiplyi…
Lutha Earth was everything your god could wish to make The snow…
Mac Miller Yeah, you know I love having a studio at home Because…
Mac Miller feat. Future Yeah, you know I love having a studio at home Because…
Make Me Famous Day after day Time after time You're paving your own way …
Me'Shell Ndegéocello Let me be the rain You thirst for Let me…
MF Grimm MF, special herbs, fingers in the spice rack A little bit…
Mogli We are floating in peacefully in the shades In the shades…
Neil Young Promise of the Real Oh, Mother Earth, With your fields of green Once more laid…
O.S.T Gladiator The human race is dead There's not a single head…
Peter Kater/R. Carlos Nakai This is ras Moses Dreadlocks, well before one selassi words…
Poesie Noire The day the four horsemen ride, the black soil will…
Port Noir Once I can reach what I long for I crossed the…
Queen I might be at a table And suddenly I'll catch…
Seals & Crofts Earth is my mother, no other, my sanctuary. But earth…
Second Person And so the clock strikes twelve as we find ourselves In…
Shanti A.J. Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain I…
Shapeshifter In wake of all progression, she weeps Do we not see…
SIR E.U Heaven on earth We need it now I'm sick of all of…
sleepy.ab I'm from Brooklyn, New York City I be the Earth…
Smile I might be at a table And suddenly I'll catch A fleeting…
Spacey and Vaughan This bitter earth Well, what a fruit it bears What good is…
The Dr. Christmas Biplane I feel the earth move under my feet I feel the…
The Orb Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me…
v.a.- berlincassette 84-4 Earth angel, earth angel Will you be mine My darling dear Lo…
V.I.R.U.S. Heaven on earth We need it now I'm sick of all of…
Vita and the Woolf I am driving to your house in the Full lightning curves…
Voice Farm I love the way that you sing to me I love…
Winds Of Plague Earth, home to well over six billion people A most majestic…
Wood and Volk The sun taunts you In everything you do Like a…
X. Wulf & Bones Tonight we run We run into the sun We run into the…

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…
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'…
Largo Ombra mai fu, di vegetabile cara ed amabile, soave pi`u.…
Now We Are Free Anol shalom 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…
Too Far Gone I am drowning Not waving Here in the darkness I’ll find m…

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