Lisa Lavie

Lisa Lavie (born 6 May 1983) is a Canadian singer and songwriter who. LaSalle, an administrative district of the city of Montreal, Quebec, grew up in Canada

It was widely known through use of the internet for marketing their independent music labels, their music and concerts. Lavie's vocals can be heard in film scores big movie productions. The produced under their independent label debut album Everything or Nothing was released in 2008.

Lavie was in the Canadian and American television in the context of success several times to hear her singing videos on the internet and initiated by her charity video recording We Are the World 25 for Haiti ( YouTube Edition) and see.

Lavie was elected as a singer for Yannis South American tour in September 2010.

Childhood and discovery

At the age of 10 years, Lisa won a singing contest at a Variety event of their school. Lavie's older brother Michael, a hip- hop dancer, and Danny, a disc jockey known as DJ Devious in the area of Montreal, were their ideas within the family. She herself says she enthusiastically listens to pieces by Mariah Carey.

At the age of 16, she took on the role of a Nebenstimme toured with the hip- hop group Dubmatique, where she performed in front of thousands. Also at the age of 16, she took on their first demo CD, which she paid with saved yourself $ 5,000. The demo CD was passed around for years in the music industry. By the age of 19 years she worked in marginal areas of the music business, while she was co-owner and manager of Harmony Karaoke in Montréal.

In 2004, their demo CD arrived at the composer and songwriter Ben Margulies, a co-producer of Mariah Carey's first album. Margulies was touched by - as he said - the " one in a million " voice. " It was when I heard Mariah for the first time " Lisa initially thought the first contact attempts by Margulies would be jokes of their friends who were playing with the existing since childhood enthusiasm for Mariah Carey. Three months later, finally did the contact between Lisa and Margulies.

After Lavie had sung her song " Guys are all the same" Margulies over a public telephone a department store in Montreal, said this: "I heard something special in her voice, I said, fly over immediately. " Lavie later wrote: "I could not believe that Mariah Carey's producer had discovered me I think from 10 to 17 years old, I have no other music heard as Mariah Carey your voice and melodies captivated me. .. " Was a permanent move for the 21 -year-old Lavie from a planned 3-day visit in Santa Barbara, California in July 2004.

Career Start

Early on, Ben Margulies expressed about the potential of Lavie: " Lisa has undoubtedly a brilliant voice and a vocal quality that is beyond what I can describe I've worked with a lot of great singer and she has that little extra something. Special everything what it takes to be a superstar. every video they receive, shows her lights from bottom of my heart, with this incredible expression within the meaning of faith and credibility. " Lisa developed her songwriting skills; her texts, she says, based on our own life experiences.

Professional career

Lavie played songs from the soundtrack of the movie Stick It was published in 2006 with Jeff Bridges ( "If I Only Knew " ) and in the film The Guardian starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher ( song: " Mockingbird "). In August 2006, Lavie signed as a song writer and publicist at Broadcast Music Inc, which represented their formal entry into the profession. It was presented at the " Hitmakers section " of the BMI Music World Magazine in the spring of 2007. Lisa Laviee took at the 56th Annual BMI Pop Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 20, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California, and took part on 16 October 2008 at the " 2008 Spirit of Life Award dinner" in honor of Doug Morris in part, in Santa Monica, California, takes place.

Even after her film music recordings of career breakthrough failed to materialize, your work based primarily on personal contacts with the media and record companies. Lavie described the Lobesbekundigungen the industry as enthusiastic, but not binding, which meant that Lavie and Margulies had to get in touch with an independent record label 's first album.

Do- it-yourself marketing

In March 2007, Lisa Lavie opened an account on Youtube, which was linked to their MySpace page. She said she did not accept that their homemade video presentation of their careers may be useful. They published their own videos in which she sang her own songs, including two videos in which she sang in the car. You continuously won their subscribers channel. During the first 6 months she tried to respond personally to all comments. This was her undoing on 11 September 2007. The Youtube software interpreted their many answers to viewer comments as bot- generated spam, and automatically locked their account. Your Youtube fans then initiated an online petition, and Lavie's account was enabled again two days after the lock. Weeks after her channel had been restored, the video presentation of their original song "Angel " was shown on the front page of Youtube and pulled within a few days to over a million viewers. During the days around October 3rd, as the " Angel " video attracted its millionth viewer to Lavie was in continuous conversation in a chat room. But no more she was able to respond to every viewer comment. The "Angel " video alone had over 10,000 viewers comments, as it passed the 1- million - viewer mark.

In October 2007, Lavie was in the TV show " Entertainment Tonight (ET ) Canada " called an "Internet singing sensation" and " Internet phenomenon " and as "the next Mariah Carey ". The following month, it was explained how " music stars " like Lavie in the show CTV " eTalk " " came on their own terms to the top. " In this TV - telephone interview Lavie explained that artists must provide their audience even in today's music business, to win the trust of the nervous record labels.

Over the years, the number of subscribers of Lisa Lavie's YouTube channel grew to 251,000 in September 2011. Her songs have been heard at that time 61.8 million times. On average, every 2.3 seconds heard a song from her.

Debut album - Everything or Nothing

After 4 years of production, Lisa Lavie's debut album Everything or Nothing was released on 13 May 2008 on iTunes for download; it was presented in the " What's Hot " on the front page of iTunes. Without support or application by a record label, the album reached the # 20 of the iTunes Pop Charts and # 70 the entire iTunes Music Charts on the second day. On the first anniversary of the launch of their album in May 2009, the number of their Youtube subscribers had tripled to over 60,000. She is author or co -author of all the lyrics and melodies of the album, which she wrote three completely alone. She says about it: "I've written songs about my life and my existence to everything I 've been through I have not created a specific style, he 's kind of like seasons Most of my songs are about relationships from seem any reason.. . I draw my creativity from this. "

Independent artist

In March 2010, Lisa Lavie said in an interview that " I no longer work together with the one with whom I have ever worked with. This was for me a pleasant change of direction. Things turned in an exciting way. " In terms of record contracts she added: " I am an independent artist ... it would definitely fit and I have not found anything suitable, so I 'm doing everything to himself now I will focus on creating an online fan base and build. . "

Persons of the Week

Lavie conceived, organized, sang and co - edited the charity video recording We Are the World 25 for Haiti ( YouTube Edition ) based on the original song from 1985 We Are the World. She brought fifty-seven people together from all over the world to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. The video was viewed during the first two days, 500,000 times, and gained worldwide media attention: CNN beamed several television shows in which the video was presented, and called on March 19, 2010 Diane Sawyer video participants " ABC News Persons of the Week " ( people of the week).

On Tour

On September 13, 2010, was presented as one of two vocalists Lisa Lavie on Yanni's official website that accompany Yanni and his orchestra on its tour of South America. Part of the tour are performances in Santiago (Chile ), Buenos Aires ( Argentina), São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (both Brazil). The vocal sample was supposedly " the decisive factor " in Yanni's choice of two singers. They sing together "Aria " and " Niki Nana. "

Discography

Everything or Nothing ( Boundary Entertainment, iTunes publication 13 May 2008 )

Movie soundtracks:

• Stick It (Original Soundtrack )

Touchstone Pictures (on iTunes on 4 April 2006 ) Title 7: If I Only Knew

• Every Second Counts - The Guardian (Original Soundtrack )

Hollywood Records (on iTunes on September 12, 2006) Title No. 5: The Mockingbird

Swell

• Contemporary -R & B singer
• Pop singer
• Rock singer
• Canadian musicians
• Born in 1983
• Woman