An artist with her heart in her mouth: honest, soulful, and passionate songs, combining elements of folk, pop, jazz, and musical theatre.

10 MP3 Songs
POP: Piano, FOLK: like Joni

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Lisa Forkish grew up in the Pacific Northwest among towering Douglas firs, blackberry brambles, and persistent rain. Her mother's parlor grand piano looked out on the wide Willamette Valley and the Cascade mountains beyond. Music of all kinds was at the heart of her family life, and her earliest memories are of singing carols and musical theatre songs and dancing to Raffi. Lisa studied classical violin throughout her early youth, but after several years, she realized that her greatest joy came from singing. Enchanted by the music of Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, and Fiona Apple, she resolved with all her youthful energy to teach herself to play the piano in order to write songs from her own sweet and eager 11-year-old heart. Now, just 11 years later, Lisa has already had a remarkable career. While working on a degree in women's and gender studies, she was music director, writer, arranger and vocalist for the University of Oregon's award-winning women's a cappella group, Divisi.

A seasoned performer from her years of work in musical theatre and opera productions, symphony, jazz and festival choirs, as well as countless a cappella shows, Lisa is currently on the opposite coast, where she has been seduced by the art of performance in new, thrilling ways. While living, loving, writing, cooking, biking, nannying, dancing, performing and basking in the glorious counter-culture of Cambridge, MA, Lisa attends Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music on a Vocal Performance scholarship.

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