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Lisa Meri is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer who hails from New York City .
 
Lisa started formal music studies at the age of 9. Her grandfather gave her a violin. After two years her parents, in an effort to maintain their sanity, replaced the violin with a guitar. The guitar became Lisa's primary instrument.
 
Lisa played her first gig at the age of 15. She sang and played covers in a local club near her home in Queens . Since the pay was incredible (Lisa made $15.00 for a four hour gig) she decided to continue on her musical career path.
 
After several more years of private study Lisa attended Berklee College Of Music. Lisa had a great time during those four years, she had the opportunity to study, practice and form wonderful friendships. She focused on theory, harmony, composition, songwriting and arranging and developed an interest in writing for film and television. She explored the guitar's compositional capabilities and spent hours working out interesting hybrid, quartal, cluster and open voicings. She also got to take in the beautiful sights and sounds of the Back Bay area circa 1980. Some of you may remember: “The Bitter Woman”, Cosmo's, Slice, T.C.'s and Ultimate Frisbee.
 
After graduating from Berklee, Lisa headed back to NYC. She taught at several well known guitar institutions and apprenticed with her composition mentor, Angelo Musolino. Angelo is a well known guitarist and composer/arranger who has written for the stage, screen and television. Angelo told Lisa that since there is no such thing as “real job security” she might as well stick with music and continue to starve for her passion. (It sounds a lot better in theory of course.) To help make ends meet, Lisa played a lot of jazz and gb gigs. She also worked as a music therapist with troubled adolescents and adults. Lisa built on her studies of theory, harmony, counterpoint, composition, orchestration and arranging with Angelo. During the course of a decade, Angelo really helped Lisa blossom as a writer.
 
In the early 90's, Lisa returned to Boston . She loves the area (despite missing her beloved Yankees and being surrounded by hoards of Red Sox fans). Lisa released her first commercial recording, a 5 song EP entitled “I'm Not Gonna Say I Told You So”. The CD garnered a fair amount of airplay. Lisa went to Europe and toured Scandinavia . She received National and International attention and charted on College Radio. Lisa did a lot of regional performing as well. When she returned she went into the studio and recorded “Time Will Tell”, a full length follow up to “I'm Not Gonna Say I Told You So”. It was around this time that Lisa acknowledged that she enjoyed writing and recording much more than performing. She decided to return to her roots and pursue writing and producing music for film, television and multimedia. She signed a deal with label/co-publisher Aquatarius Music Ltd. in 1999 just before the release of “Time Will Tell”.
 
During the past few years, Lisa has been busy writing and recording new material. Her music is being placed in commercial, film and television projects.
 
Lisa is a very happy camper, despite the apparent lack of security.