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.
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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Beef Chavez
They missed the point of the film, and its themes.
Throughout the whole film, David is the sole voice of reason and rationality. He represents the detached viewer, watching as the other characters succumb to irrationality and violence.
In the end, David and the group he leads make the rational decision to spare themselves from their suffering, and only then is it revealed that they were on the verge of safety.
And that was the point. You are meant to question just how rationale you, as the detached observer, really are. How easily your own decisions could lead you to disaster.
Great horror films are supposed to show you the things that you are not prepared to see.
デカラインLARA
3:56 - Lara's reflection goes outside the water
Are you... me? Are you... who I am? No... why... Lara breaks down on her knees crying
Lara's reflection then walks to her and calmly embraces her, bring her head close to her chest
Is that... my heart?
"... Don't give up..." Lara's reflection stands up and lends out her hand
Lara looks at her reflection and gasps when she did the same thing she did
Нина Мальцева
Как будто слушаешь землю утром, когда люди встречают солнце....истинный голос всех наших предков. Различий нет,рас нет.зеиля и мы. Потрясающе!
Massimo Tazzioli
LISA GERRARD IS ONE OF THE GREATEST VOICE OF THIS TIME.
SHE'S MAGIC.
SHE MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE AND EPHEMERAL AT THE SAME TIME!
I'M BREATHING AND I'M FEELING IMPERMANENT.
🙏
el Ma Ra Seraphim
I couldn't AGREE MORE Massino ~ just exhilarating <3
Beautiful blessings from el Ma Ra, Gold Coast in Australia
Nerd Stark
For the past ten years I have always considered this to be the best, most important, and the most note worthy piece of nusic from the 20ths century. Everything else comes short compared to this six minutes of divinity. How a human can even create such a thing? How can someone even dare to dream of creating such a thing? And how she even dares to sing it? Isn't she afraid she might crush under it's weight?
Spike 66
Real the most successful offside football team ever . I have always thought the same as you. I heard this when it was released and at the time only listened to hardcore punk. This song blew my mind. How can it be done? How is it that nothing sounds like this beautiful ever?
Ning3n
She crushed it with her beautifully soulful voice.
Grenisa C-P
I remember when I bought this album ( LP) and played it on my uncles amazing soundsystem, I cried. This is everything ,ever, now ,past, to come, in one.
Miss Ally
Host of Seraphim , alternately titled
Angels Cry; Requiem for Humanity
Elodie Hbt
This music makes you feel so alive, and ephemeral at the same time...
Introspection, sadness, goose bumps 🙏
Massimo Tazzioli
LISA GERRARD IS ONE OF THE GREATEST VOICE OF THIS TIME.
SHE'S MAGIC.
SHE MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE AND EPHEMERAL AT THE SAME TIME!
I'M BREATHING AND I'M FEELING IMPERMANENT.
🙏