Lisa Miller (singer-songwriter)

Lisa Miller is an Australian singer/songwriter known for her clear, bitter-sweet voice and poignant semi-biographical songs.

Miller grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Chadstone, the daughter of social realist painter Peter Miller. Her elder brother Lewis Miller, is also a painter, and won the 1998 Archibald Prize.

She started writing songs at fourteen and has memories of being in a folk music duo with a friend: "I played flute, she played guitar and sang, and we wore matching paisley dresses that went to the floor, and played at coffee houses where people drank hot chocolates with marshmallows."

Her first serious musical outing was as vocalist of the rock group The Hepeleptics in the 1980s, while working as a secondary school teacher. She then became vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Whole Shebang. In 1989 she took an extended trip to the US to see friends and hear as much music as possible in legendary locations (Memphis, Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, San Francisco). She returned to Melbourne and formed her own roots rock band, The Trailblazers (later known as Truckasaurus) with Mark Ferrie (ex-Models and Sacred Cowboys). They favoured original material by Miller or Ferrie. She also sang in the trio The Everlovin' O'Sheas. Of these early ventures only The Whole Shebang and Truckasaurus issued any recordings.

In 1995 Miller released two EPs on the In'Law label as a solo artist: Do That For You and All Worked Out. Her debut album, Quiet Girl with a Credit Card, followed in 1996 on the W.Minc label. It was also issued in the UK on Demon Records, to date her only release outside of Australia. It was three years until her second album, As Far as a Life Goes, which also appeared on the W.Minc label but released by the now defunct Festival Mushroom Records. She was nominated that year for the Best Female Artist ARIA Award – a notable achievement for an artist with no commercial radio airplay.

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