Biography
Lisa Meri is a musician, songwriter, composer, and music producer who hails from New York City. Her music is an eclectic blend of pop, rock, and jazz, and her passion for high value music production has led to numerous original song placements in film, television, and commercials.
Lisa was born into a musical family and exposed to a wide variety of music at a young age by her father, a professional drummer and accomplished songwriter tied to Nashville in the 1980’s.
She expressed an interest in writing music when she turned twelve and started taking guitar lessons with the late Jack Hotop Sr, a master guitarist who played on recording dates for the legendary Tony Bennett on Columbia Records.
Lisa got her first Work-For-Hire writing opportunity at seventeen and never looked back. She wrote and performed the theme song for a Manhattan Cable Television Program called “Going Solo,” and her fascination with writing for visual media grew.
She immersed herself in her songwriting, composition, and arranging studies at Berklee College Of Music in Boston. She co-produced a 5 song EP of original music titled “I’m Not Gonna Say I Told You So” with David Porter (Aerosmith, Letters To Cleo) after graduation. The EP received a generous amount of airplay on college and commercial radio and her performances in New York and New England were well-received.
As a result of her regional success, she was invited to perform in an International Music Festival in Kristianstad, Sweden and she toured the area with other festival artists and bands (getting her first taste of international attention and press). She was interviewed on Sveriges Radio P4 Kristianstad, a national Swedish Radio network. She also did magazine and newspaper interviews for local press outlets.
After Lisa returned from Europe, she recorded “Time Will Tell”, her full length follow-up release to “I’m Not Gonna Say I Told You So”.
Two of Lisa’s songs (“Take Me Where You’re Going” and “Another Look”) were placed in the award-winning independent feature-length film “11 Minutes Ago”, written, directed, and produced by actor Bob Gebert (“The Office” and “Grey’s Anatomy”).
Her next project was a 3 song EP titled “Happy Project”. Sony Pictures Television placed “Deep Blue Ocean” in “Homecoming” (Season 3, Episode 302) of the television series “Dawson’s Creek”. This episode is currently streaming on Apple TV, Hulu, and Amazon.
Lisa also released “Out Of The Blue”, an EP of original material she co-wrote and co-produced with artist Leah Langefeld. Advertising Agency Arnold Worldwide Inc. licensed their song “Can’t Wait For The Lovin” for an online multi-year ad campaign for Brown-Forman.
Lisa’s next release was a full length compilation project of unreleased material titled “Full Circle”. It included her song “With Me Anyway” written for guitar, voice, and cello (in memory of her grandmother) and featured Boston Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Sato Knudsen on cello.
Lisa followed “Full Circle” with a string of singles including her successful R&B track “Back To You”, which has received worldwide airplay in the US, Europe, Australia, Central America, South America, and South Africa.
She just released her poignant piano ballad “I’ll Miss You All These Years (Remix)” through The Orchard on May 10th, 2024. She’s thrilled to share this worldwide release with fans and others new to her music, and hopes to offer some measure of comfort through her depiction of universal loss and longing in the aftermath of a failed relationship.
Violet Sepe’s moving piano interpretation and subtle yet striking string arrangement gently cradle Lisa’s evocative and heart-rending vocal performance.
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Discography
I’m Not Gonna Say I Told You So
EP
1994-01-01
Time Will Tell
Album
1999-03-30
Full Circle
Album
2006-04-05
Back To You
Single
2018-07-27
I Am Listening
Single
2019-09-20
Stuff Like That
Single
2020-05-01
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