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.
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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Mr Cyr
Carla Lopes Thanx Lady,
I speak from The Heart...
Lisa Gerrard and Dead Can Dance is such a Masterpiece of VARIETY or sound and vocals... Acoustics!
As Lisa's Gerrard, Her Voice the best way to Describe would be three Best Words that sums it up...
-BEAUTIFUL
-UNIQUE
-HAUNTING
AHHHHHH! 😊
ララ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
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.
🙏
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?
I'm The Goddamn Once-ler
All these people bitching about the ending to The Mist are probably the same people who consider Sharknando to be good Horror. Horror isn't all blood and gore, sometimes the greatest horrors in this life are a sense of hopelessness, helplessness, regret, and despair, and this ending captures all of them perfectly. Just think, a fictional movie made you feel real life despair, the kind of despair one feels when their loved one loses their battle with cancer or when a mother gives birth only to find her baby is stillborn. Complete and utter hopelessness, one of life's ultimate horrors. Bravo Mr.Darabont, bravo.
Peggy Gross
@Brent Parker Better is the ending of "Man on Fire". Lisa Gerrard sings a beautiful song while Denzel (thankfully) dies in the backseat of that car. Mind blowing stuff.
Master Of Cubes
Darabont really knows how to end a movie: one of the greatest happyend of all time (TSR), one of the saddest (TGM) and this one.... master
Adam charley
at the end of the day the Mist was a psychological horror, where Mr King highlighted that people are scarier monsters then the actual monsters. I agree it was meant to terrify people with the sheer hopelessness, and despair that the main characters have undergone and challenge people perceptions at physiological level. Jumpy horrors are boring, predictable and they leave no mark whatsoever, watched once and forgotten.
hermanPla
One of the best parts of the movie was when they and their car all got pushed a little up in the air because the behemoth was just walking by. That was some H.P. Lovecraft type of shit right there. When even just a "small" bugg type monster can easily kill you and then you see that. Utter and complete hopelessness.
Sarah McCann Hughes
Stephen King even admitted that the ending of The Mist movie was really good considering it was not the ending he wrote in his book. This song just impacted that feeling of helplessness. That pit of emptiness that what was done couldn't be forgiven and wound up being for nothing in the end.
Lu K.
This song cured me of every disease in 6 min 12 sec.