Lisa Mitchell

Lisa Mitchell
Lisa Mitchell performing live at the Falls Festival, December 2009
Background information
Birth name	Lisa Helen Mitchell
Born	(1990-03-22) 22 March 1990 (age 27) Canterbury, Kent, England
Origin	Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	Indie pop, acoustic, folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, vocals, piano
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Scorpio, Warner, RCA
Associated acts	Chrome, Katherine Green

Lisa Helen Mitchell (born 22 March 1990) is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales. Mitchell currently lives in Sydney and is working on her third studio album with producer Eric J to be released in 2016. In March 2015, Mitchell's last single "Wah Ha" was remixed by electronic trio Seekae. Mitchell finished sixth in the 2006 season of Australian Idol. Her debut extended play, Said One to the Other (4 August 2007), topped iTunes in Australia and she signed with London-based publisher, Little Victories, a subsidiary of Sony/ATV. By 2008 Mitchell had relocated to the UK where she recorded her debut studio album, Wonder (31 July 2009), which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart. She won the 2009 Australian Music Prize of $30,000 for the album. Mitchell returned to Australia to live in Melbourne. Her second album, Bless This Mess (12 October 2012) reached No. 7.

Lisa Helen Mitchell was born on 22 March 1990 in Canterbury, England. Her parents, Angus and Ruth, are both doctors; and she has a younger sister, Nicola. The Mitchell family had moved to Australia when she was three and she grew up near Albury on a 20 hectares (49 acres) farm. She attended The Scots School Albury. She began guitar lessons at 12, and leant towards the folk and rock genres. Mitchell later recalled her pivotal moment was seeing Missy Higgins perform "Scar" on a video hits program: "My sister called me out to watch it ... Missy was a really normal, cool chick making music as her own thing. I found that really inspiring".