Lisa Harriton | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Lisa Rae Harriton |
Born |
Los Angeles, California, United States |
November 17, 1980
Genres | Pop, Electronic, Rock |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Pianist |
Instruments | Piano, Vocals |
Associated acts | Elle Rae, Jo Li, Bartholomew, The Smashing Pumpkins, Adam Lambert, Kesha, Natalia Kills |
Website | www |
Lisa Rae Harriton (born November 17, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and sound designer. A member of the songwriting and production team Jo Li, Harriton is a co-writer of the Grammy and Oscar nominated song “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie.
Harriton was born in Los Angeles, California and began working as a studio singer at age 8 on dates for Disney, Integrity Media and Word Records. She sang the preproduction duet vocals on Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook.
Harriton attended and completed classical piano studies at the Royal Schools of Music in London, and completed further jazz piano studies at the University of Southern California in May 2004.
Harriton has performed in China, Japan, Peru and Los Angeles jazz clubs and has worked with musicians such as Ingrid Jensen and Ernie Watts.
On May 22, 2007, in Le Grand Rex club in Paris, she was unveiled as touring keyboardist and backing vocalist for the reformed alternative rock band, Smashing Pumpkins. Harriton appeared in the videos for "Tarantula" and "That's the Way (My Love Is)". She also appeared in the documentary concert film “If All Goes Wrong.”