Lisa Anne Edwards was born on 25 September 1958 and is an Australian solo and session singer and musician.
21 Facts About Lisa Edwards
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Lisa Edwards provided vocals on Real Life's "Send Me an Angel" and Olivia Newton-John's "Stronger Than Before".
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Lisa Edwards's father is a jazz pianist and her mother was a stage performer.
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Lisa Edwards made her stage debut aged seven with her father, who regularly took her with him.
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Lisa Edwards began her career as a solo artist and backing singer in the late 1970s, in South Australia and Sydney, supporting artists including the Seekers, the Platters, the Drifters and the Pointer Sisters.
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Lisa Edwards's second single, "You Are My Melbourne", was a duet with Adrian Campbell in 1985.
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In 1986 Lisa Edwards was lead vocalist in Short Circuit, a dance-disco group with Trevor Courtney on drums.
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Lisa Edwards sang "Playing with Fire", music by Frank Strangio and lyrics by Eve Dembowski, for the feature film, Dead End Drive-In.
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Turbo Luv Nuns was a group, in 1987, with Lisa Edwards on backing vocals, Ronnie Charles on lead vocals, Peter Coughlan on bass guitar, Mark Greig on lead guitar and Des McKenna on drums.
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Lisa Edwards provided vocals for Short Circuit's album, Waiting for the Big One.
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Lisa Edwards released her debut solo album, Thru the Hoop, in May 1993, with backing vocals from Farnham and Jack Jones.
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From 1993 Lisa Edwards has contributed Christmas carols for the annual The Spirit of Christmas album series, which is produced and compiled by fellow John Farnham Band backing singer, Lindsay Field.
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Lisa Edwards released her second solo studio album, State of the Heart, in August 2005, which included a cover version of Icehouse's single, "Man of Colours".
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Lisa Edwards released her third studio album, I'm Still the Woman in 2022.
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Lisa Edwards has been one of his backing vocalists for both studio sessions and touring from Age of Reason to Jack, inclusive.
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Lisa Edwards was one of the backing vocalists on Kylie Minogue's Enjoy Yourself Tour in 1990.
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Lisa Edwards returned to Australia to support Olivia Newton-John and Tom Jones on the Australian legs of their tours.
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Lisa Edwards again worked with Minogue in 1998 on the singer's Intimate and Live Tour of Australia.
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Lisa Edwards continues to perform, both as a solo artist, a member of Farnham's band and as a backing singer.
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Lisa Edwards was part of the "Tour of Duty" concert for the Australian Army troops in appreciation of the peacekeeping effort in East Timor.
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Lisa Edwards is an Australia Day ambassador for the state of Victoria.