Dalbello
Dalbello (born 1958 in Toronto (district Weston ), Ontario, Canada; Lisa Dal Bello actually; Lisa Dalbello ) is a Canadian musician. In the late 1970s she published as Lisa Dal Bello three pop albums. In 1984, she appeared again, this time as edgy alternative rock musician.
Life
Early on, had shown in family her great musical talent. At the age of thirteen she was with a revue on tour and won several amateur competitions. After appearances on television and in commercials, they could sign a contract with the record company MCA at the age of 19 years. For their disco - pop debut album Lisa Dal Bello, she won a 1978 Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist.
Dissatisfied with the image that the record company wanted to give her, she interrupted after her third album Drastic Measures in 1981 her music career to study at York University and to devote himself to poetry, in addition to the music one of their other preferences. The guitarist Mick Ronson saw during this time, a television documentary by the Canadian station CBC Dalbello and convinced them to record another album, which was released by Capitol Records in 1984.
This album, Whomanfoursays ( a homonym for "human forces" ), was produced jointly by Dalbello and Ronson. It was also their first album, which was released under the name Dalbello and marked her transformation from the disco queen of edgy rock musician. This transformation worked: The album was even more successful than it had been her pop albums in the Canadian pop charts. The hits Gonna Get Close To You and Animal emerged from the album. Besides the music and the lyrics were able to convince that far surpassed other pop and rock texts in content and message. Dalbello was referred to as Canada's more varied response to Kate Bush.
Dalbello and Ronson were planning to record a second album. Ronson but withdrew because of ongoing controversies with Dalbellos record company. Dalbello made on alone and published in 1987, the album She (in the U.S. only in 1989 ). The singles from this album, Tango and Black on Black, were her greatest hits. At this time, in 1987, they toured together with Marillion in their opening act for Clutching at straws tour. Then Dalbello left her record company and began again in 1991 her collaboration with Ronson, but died of cancer in 1993. Dalbello withdrew from the music scene, but continued to write songs for others, including for Julian Lennon. In 1996, she published the recorded in Toronto in collaboration with her brother Stefano Album Whore, her last date with EMI.
Dalbello has also written songs for other artists, including Patti LaBelle, Helix, Julie Masse and Nena. Queensrÿche recorded a cover version of Gonna Get Close To You, Heart one each of Black on Black and Wait for an Answer. Dalbello also has radio and TV jingles recorded her voice lent figures of the animated series Sailor Moon. In 2001, she sang a commercial for the Ford Focus, With all your Heart ( Faith In You).
Discography
When Lisa Dal Bello
- Lisa Dal Bello (1977 )
- Pretty Girls (1979 )
- Drastic Measures (1981 )
As Dalbello
- Whomanfoursays (1984 )
- She ( 1987)
- Whore (1996 )