Lisa Gerrard

Lisa Gerrard (dʒəˈrɑːrd; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. Gerrard is one of Australia's most renowned musicians with a career spanning almost four decades. She is known for her unique singing style technique, influenced by her childhood spent alongside communities from around the world (Greece, Turkey, Asia), and sings within both the ranges of the dramatic contralto and the mezzo-soprano. Gerrard was born and grew up in Melbourne, Victoria. Her career began in 1980 with avant-garde band Microfilm before becoming a founding member of Dead Can Dance. With Perry, her musical canvas expanded with every release, exploring numerous musical fields, to finally become the representatives of their own genre. She sings sometimes in English and often in a unique language that she invented. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer). Gerrard's first solo album, The Mirror Pool, was released in 1995. She has been involved in a wide range of projects, starting her first collaborative album in 1998 with Pieter Bourke, and scoring numerous award-winning motion picture soundtracks. As of 2020, Gerrard has released four solo albums and collaborated on sixteen albums. She composed and contributed the scores to more than 48 movies. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the 2000 film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer. She wrote the score of Balibo which went on to win an ARIA award for Best Original Soundtrack and an APRA Screen music award for Best feature film score. Overall she has won 11 awards receiving 23 nominations. Gerrard has been nominated for a Grammy Award two times.

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