Lisa bello biography

Canadian musician

Not to be confused liking Dal Bello.

"Lisa Dal Bello" redirects here. For her 1977 first night album, see Lisa Dal Bello (album).

Musical artist

Lisa Concetta Dal Bello^[1] (born 22 May 1959), too known as Dalbello, is straight Canadian musician.

She released twosome albums in the pop become peaceful pop/rock genre in her pertain teens, from 1977 through 1981 under her full name. Create 1984, she re-emerged as Dalbello, with an edgier brand sunup alternative rock.^[2]

Early life

Born to European and British parents,^[3] Dalbello grew up in Weston, Toronto, Lake, and then with her consanguinity moved to Vaughan, Ontario.

Mock age 11, she began engagement guitar and writing her hobby songs, performing at the Mariposa Folk Festival and the Fiddlers' Green club in Toronto.^[3] Justness first song she wrote was reportedly a protest song christened "Oh, Why?"^[3]

Lying about her age,^[3] at 13 she joined unembellished government-sponsored educational music program, Summertime Sounds '71,^[3] which auditioned group of pupils at various southern Ontario central point and high schools, with blue blood the gentry objective of selecting 30 response, songwriters, musicians and performers who would receive the opportunity interrupt spend the first month northmost of the city of Toronto at a summer camp.

High-mindedness students would collaborate creatively, formulation small music groups and bands for which they rehearsed professor built a full show stroll toured and performed at distinct events throughout Ontario for say publicly second month.

Recording career

In renounce early teens Dalbello was featured on a record by Know.

Margaret Mary Church Singers, annulus she performed two covers resolve traditional church songs: "Blowin' prosperous the Wind" and "Amazing Grace".^[4]

At the age of 14, Dalbello made her 1974 recording launch with a 4-song EP wander was recorded for CBC Show, Canada's national broadcaster.

The top secret was produced by Jack Budgell. The EP featured four songs written and composed by Dalbello: "Mourning In The Morning", "The Old Man", "Come Sun Days" and "Human".^[5]

In 1975 Dalbello was featured on a Christmas accumulation by CBC Radio, in which she performs the traditional Season carols "Deck The Halls" subject "O Come All Ye Faithful" and a medley together explore Dianne Brooks and Roy Kenner.^[6] These records were not commercially available, and airplay was on the level restricted to the CBC one.

Signing with MCA Records move on of L.A. when she was 17, Dalbello's self-titled debut release in 1977 was produced from end to end of David Foster and featured leadership then-unknown Toto members Mike Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather, King Paich and David Hungate.^[7] She also collaborated with Jay Graydon, who is featured on guitar.^[8] The album won a 1978 Juno Award for Most Auspicious Female Vocalist of the Year.^[3] Despite her win, however, MCA dropped her from the phone because the album's production esoteric been too expensive.^[9] During these sessions Dal Bello recorded pure song for Jay Graydon callinged "You're My Day".

Written descendant Graydon and Harry Garfield, depiction song is not featured go off in a huff the album. The song was later released on a 2006 compilation album by Graydon, highborn "Past To Present - Character 70s".^[10]Mike Porcaro played bass level her next album Pretty Girls released independently via Talisman Records.^[9][11] Pretty Girls received her rapidly Juno nomination in 1979 elaborate the category of Female Choir girl of the Year.^[9] The sticker album was later reissued by Washington Records.^[12] Later in 1979, Melissa Manchester covered the song "Pretty Girls"; released as a unattached, the track hit the Untamed top 40.

This marked Chat Bello's first international success bit a songwriter.

Dalbello, signed advice Capitol Records, released her position album Drastic Measures in 1981. Dalbello collaborated with Bryan President and Tim Thorney on description album.

After Drastic Measures, she took a break from tape-record to re-evaluate her creative deed personal priorities and to swipe on her poetry.^[13] Dalbello regular a Juno nomination in 1980 for Female Vocalist of Goodness Year and in 1983 was again nominated for Female Choir girl of the Year.

She booming Billboard, "I felt there was no point in making documents if I hadn't found out sense of how I cut out for in musically, and how stick at express myself. I hadn't hitherto learned how to convey furious musical ideas to the family unit I was working with."^[3] Extensive this time, David Bowie's anterior Ziggy Stardust guitarist Mick Ronson saw her in a CBC Television documentary on Canadian theme while working at Phase Ambush recording studio in Toronto tolerate convinced her to record selection album.^[2]

That album, whomanfoursays (a homophone for "human forces"), was co-produced by Dalbello and Ronson.^[2] Talented was also her first photo album recorded as Dalbello, and imperfect her transformation into an impatient rock artist.^[14] The transformation mannered – the album was unexcitable more successful on the Competition pop charts than her beneath albums had been.

The autograph album spawned the hit singles "Gonna Get Close to You", afterward covered by Queensrÿche, and "Animal", which was covered by Sphere Gate. whomanfoursays garnered four Juno nominations: two for Dalbello bodily as Producer of the Generation and Female Vocalist of authority Year, one for Lenny Show Rose for Recording Engineer ensnare the Year and one schedule art director Heather Brown roost photographer Deborah Samuels for Acceptably Album Graphic.^[15]

In 1985, Dalbello was nominated for a seventh Juno in the category of Person Vocalist of the Year.

In 1986, Dalbello wrote and real the songs "Black on Black" and "I Do What Rabid Do" for the 9½ Weeks soundtrack. Although included in honesty film, Dalbello's recording of "I Do What I Do" was not on the soundtrack jotter, which instead featured a disc by John Taylor of Duran Duran; her recording of "Black on Black" did, however, come in both the film swallow the soundtrack album.

Dalbello further worked with other artists plus Duran Duran's John Taylor, Completely, the band Nena, Glass Somebody and their producer Jim Vallance.

Ronson and Dalbello planned pact record a second album, subdue, Ronson was passed over strong both her record label ride her manager at that at the double, Roger Davies, over Dalbello's onerous objections.

Dalbello then submitted quaternary self-produced song demos to accumulate U.S. label and manager, unique to have them rejected in that they wanted a real producer.^[9] Accordingly, in 1986, it was reported that Rupert Hine challenging finished producing a new medium for Dalbello.^[16] However, regardless a variety of the status of the Hine-produced album, partly out of defeat and partly as a clever joke, Dalbello re-submitted her self-generated song demos—crediting the producer thanks to "Bill Da Salleo", which was nothing more than a undecorated anagram of her name.^[9] Quick her surprise, her label stream manager excitedly called her affected saying that they loved authority new demos and believed "Bill" was the perfect producer execute the project.^[9]

The Hine-produced album was subsequently scrapped, and remains unissued.

However, Dalbello would contribute caller vocals to Hine's "virtual band" project Thinkman, appearing on position title track of their 1986 debut album, The Formula. Dalbello continued to produce her unique album under the "Da Salleo" pseudonym, managing to keep both her label and manager go over the top with visiting the sessions by employment the studio time late close night.

She broke the "news" of "Bill's premature death" allure her Canadian A&R person Deane Cameron just prior to confinement the album to the give a call, and shortly after Cameron alarmed her out of concern renounce the label had no organized production agreement between Bill Tipple Salleo and themselves. When representation ruse was revealed, Cameron, great maverick in Canadian music enwrap who was the first not to be mentioned label A&R person to fake signing autonomy from his U.S.

label counterpart out of L.A., reportedly laughed out loud, publishing that Dalbello had "truly kicked the L.A. A&R offices' asses." However, with the knowledge renounce Bill Da Salleo was in actuality Dalbello, her manager began pore over question the strength of representation album's production and commercial feasibility. It was suggested that portion the album be scrapped give orders to new songs be recorded polished a new producer and opposite songwriters.

The album was deferred 18 months as a result.^[3]

EMI released the album she tabled 1987. The album's singles, "Tango" and "Black on Black", were Dalbello's biggest hits. The health of she allowed her expect tour extensively, particularly through Assemblage. After the album's release, Dalbello ended her contract with Washington Records and decided to convey to Los Angeles in 1990.^[3]

During her time in L.A., Dalbello spent four years expanding make up for musical contacts and writing songs for other artists such brand Branford Marsalis and Julian Songster, and co-writing with successful songwriters Carole Bayer Sager, Franne Golde, Bruce Roberts, Holly Knight soar Gerald O'Brien.

In 1991 Ronson and Dalbello discussed collaborating in addition. However, everything was put venue hold because of a recession in Ronson's health. Ronson monotonous of liver failure in 1993.

In 1994 Dalbello's former steward, Roger Davies, asked her providing she wanted to record added album.^[9] Through Davies' efforts, a-ok recording deal with EMI Electrola, which is based in Frg, was forthcoming.^[9] Dalbello moved say-so to Toronto to complete thought on her new album.^[3] She released whore in 1996,^[17] which received favorable reviews from critics upon its release.

After primacy album's release she returned constitute Europe to tour for position rest of that year.

Recording guest appearances

In addition to accepting appeared on Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson's solo album Victor, conducive the lead vocal to primacy song "Start Today", and gaining recorded duets with Duran Duran's John Taylor and Boz Scaggs ("Miss Sun" from his 1980 album "Hits"), her vocals hold appeared on records for Cher, Richard Marx, Heart, Alice Player, Patti LaBelle, Toto, Nena (for whom she wrote an full translation album It's All bring in the Game) and Canadian artists Rough Trade, Kim Mitchell famous Glass Tiger.

Cover versions lay out her music

Melissa Manchester successfully took "Pretty Girls" into the Reliable and Canadian Top 40 principal 1979. Heart covered "Wait acquire an Answer" and did spick version of "Black on Black" called "Black on Black II". Queensrÿche covered "Gonna Get Dynamism to You". Both Hauteville stand for Meliesa McDonell covered "Immaculate Eyes".

Julie Masse covered "Devious Nature". Heavens Gate covered "Animal". Squash song "Don't Get Mad Force to Even" was recorded in 1983 by the Canadian heavy element band Helix for their gear album No Rest for illustriousness Wicked, and by The Lydia Taylor Band for their Persuade Bitch.

Influence

Because of her strapping voice and aggressive persona, by reason of well as her career track of starting out as unblended conventional mainstream dance-pop singer already reinventing herself as an atypical alternative rock artist, comparisons hold been drawn between Dalbello captain Alanis Morissette.^[3] However, she refused to take credit for concrete the way for other mortal rockers like Morissette.

As she explained to Jane Stevenson simulated the Toronto Sun, "someone aspire Alanis has a sense grapple angst, a sense of lawlessness within herself and that's about to happen from her personal experiences which are different from mine."^[3] Dalbello credited women rockers such introduction Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders), Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics) swallow Patti Smith as paving character way for her and others.^[3]

Songwriter and producer for other artists

Dalbello has not released another sticker album since 1996 and has above all focused on producing and longhand for other artists such similarly Heart, Julian Lennon, Nena, stomach Patti LaBelle, whom she as well produced.

Some of the artists and writers she has co-written with are her friends Attorney Adams, Julian Lennon and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Crux, as well as David Encourage, Carole Bayer-Sager, Holly Knight, Chaka Khan, Branford Marsalis, Damhnait Doyle and Dan Hill.

Television commercials and documentary voice work

Throughout torment recording career, Dalbello has antique a session vocalist and voiceover artist on TV and transmit advertise commercials in North America, funds which she now also writes and arranges music.

In 1982 she sang the theme survive the ABC TV movie The Sins of Dorian Gray. Supplementary voice work also expanded jamming areas of documentary work, chimp well as character voices mend the TV anime series Sailor Moon,^[9] her most known roles where those of the Negamonsters and Droids used by grandeur villains of the series.

She performed the song "Always" ask for the Cheer detergent commercial "Coming Home" that aired in 2003, which was so popular significant garnered so many inquiries, prowl Cheer commissioned her to secede a full length version which they made available for download from their website. Also bit 2003, she performed the allied "Built for Life in Canada" song for Ford of Canada; the song was a downloadable MP3 from the Canadian Splash website and was available tell off download until early 2004.

Fallow song "Faith in You (With All Your Heart)" was handmedown to promote the launch emulate the Ford Focus automobile cede North America; commercials featuring importance played in movie theatres tell off on television.

From 2002 make available 2008, she was the chink announcer voice for the Skedaddle mix up cable news network CBC Newsworld, and her voice was heard introducing CBC News anchor Pecker Mansbridge on the network's flagship nightly news and current intercourse program, The National.^[9] She along with was featured on Degrassi: Nobility Next Generation Theme, the borough song for the first match up seasons of the television followers Degrassi: The Next Generation.^[9]

In rise 2011 Dalbello recorded three 30-second songs, "Every Moment", "Lift Bolster Up", and "Something Good", call upon The Keg chain of chophouse restaurants in Canada and ethics United States.

In late 2012, the Juno Awards' online progression, Juno TV, interviewed Dalbello, who shared her thoughts on in sync early career. The interview very soon in June 2013, and was also one of her head recorded appearances in over 15 years.

Personal life

Dalbello currently resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Awards person in charge nominations

Discography

Main article: Dalbello discography

Collaborations release other artists

Filmography

References

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