lisarichard: the leading guru of a new american cabaret formula, perhaps, a pioneering theatrical movement?!
By Maximillien de Lafayette
LONDON- Lisa Richard: A new refreshing product and a pulverizing breed leader of creative singers and contempo theatrical performers in the United States. She sings the old tunes but resuscitates them. She delivers new material but preserves and passes on the torch of solid conservational musical excellence and revered traditional virtuosity. She lives in a crazy American city, New York, where else? But, she reaches out to universalism in music and esthetic autonomy. Her style appeals to multi-ethnic audiences and groups. I did not say "public", for Lisa Richard is an integrated part of a world public. Thus, appealing to New Yorkers, conservatives under the Hollywood Symphony Bowl pillars, innovative and ultra modern artists and those who are in the making. Lisa Richard is powerful, yet extremely hilarious , tender and sweet on the inside. Sharp intelligence, productive/creative spontaneity, original quasi intimate-quasi sarcastic talent nourished with guts forge the trilogy of the persona of this shining young and overwhelmingly talented Diva.
Lisa
Richard is quite different from the majority of the leading cabaret
artistes and musical performers, for she combines and blends the innocent and
the risqué, the traditional and the avant-garde, the intimate and the
humouristic, the dramatic human episodes and sequences of rays of hopes,
the daily troubles of a banal life and dreams of a naive girl with great
aspirations....She blends them all...she crafts them all... and delivers
them to us as a captivating melodic storyteller who cares, and who from time to
time brings us closer to the alarming reality of life and some other time,
distant us from worries and fear. This woman could be a magician and her voice a
healing power. Lisa Richard is redefining modern cabaret. Strangely enough,
Not very long time ago, Lisa Richard was a different person. A few years
ago, Lisa was Toshiba's Vice President of Strategic Planning. She abandoned the
corporate world. She dumped the executive desk and embarked on a new career:
SINGING! She began her new artistic "adventure" as a solo singer in
clubs in Los Angeles, California. Later, to move on to the world of
musicals, theater, and Broadway where she appeared in "Inside Out"
(Robby Award), The 1940's "Radio Hour" (Robby nomination), "Little Shop of
Horrors", "Grease", "Anything Goes", "Evita", "Damn Yankees", and
currently on a national tour with the Broadway original production
production of "Mamma Mia". Her approach to the CDs music market is
"singular" yet, could deviate her talents from "mainstream success." But Lisa is
on the level. She is daring, bright, hilarious, resourceful, visionary,
delightful rebel, a loving person...and don't mess up with her. One question is
perturbing me :" Could or would the immense creative talent of this young and
bright diva compete with an alarmingly deviated tastes and preferences in music
and ever-expanding market geared toward audiences who are having problems and
hard time discerning between real music and what "make them high"? That's
is the question! Nevertheless, Lisa Richard's prominent and warm presence on
stage, on CDs labels and in our hearts is assured. It is up to her to take on
the world of music, for her talents and persona are larger than life!