Who is Lisas greatest musical influence?
From Lisa: I have so many musical influences. Tchaichovsky’s “the Nutcracker Suite,” Queen, “Night at the Opera,” earlier Elton John, Bowie, especially “Hunky Dory” and “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” All albums by the Police- one of the main reasons I play guitar- Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones, Thomas Dolby, “the Flat Earth” album, my guitar teachers who taught me how to read and encouraged me to write, who taught me interesting chords, and also made me feel confident that I could write a song with only a couple of chords, Pink Floyd, The Go Go’s, the list goes on and on. My folks sent me to music lessons when I was a little girl, piano lessons as well as piano theory. We listened to music all the time in the house, from the standards my father played on the piano every night and Sunday mornings, to classical music on records or live- my older brother was a classical pianist from a young age. My little sister and I took ballet and dance lessons at a young
