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Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album Geek the Girl (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by Spin magazine. She began her career as a violinist for John Mellencamp. As of 2018, she has released thirteen albums.
Lisa Germano, born in 1958 in Mishawka, Indiana, was the daughter of classical musicians, and started learning violin at age 7. After Mellencamp commissioned two pieces for his film "Falling From Grace", Germano gradually discovered her artistic potential.
Although Lisa Germano once attracted attention as the violinist for John Mellencamp on his Lonesome Jubilee and Big Daddy albums, she has since carved out her own place in the music world as the creator of a series of harrowing albums of a stunningly personal nature.
Lisa Germano. Diligant rock session violinist whose dense, dreamy, keyboard-laden solo reveries earned critical raves, if not boffo sales. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY:
Geek the Girl is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Lisa Germano. A breakthrough of sorts for her, it was released on October 25, 1994 by 4AD, just six months after the re-release of her previous album, Happiness.
Lisa Germano is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer and arranger from Mishawaka, Indiana. After years playing violin as a session musician with the likes of John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls and Bob Dylan, Germano embarked on a solo career in 1991 with the understated but occasionally brilliant On The Way Down From The Moon Palace on her own ...
Self-billed as “The Emotional Wench,” Indiana native Lisa Germano first surfaced as the fiddler with John Cougar Mellencamp’s band, but her own work is light years away from the heartland swagger of her erstwhile employer.
