

Sang and played guitar since junior high began writing songs in high school performed college coffee-house scene as a member of Lisa and Liz formed Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories, 1991 original band included Lisa Loeb, guitar and lead vocals Tim Bright, electric guitars Jonathan Feinberg, drums and Joe Quigley, bass. soundtrack, produced and For the Record …īorn in 1968 in Bethesda, MD (some sources list Dallas, TX) raised in Dallas, TX education: Brown University, B.A.

With the band Nine Stories, “Stay ” was released in 1994 on the Reality Bite. Loeb continued to play the smoky coffeehouse scene in New York solo and with her band. It did not include her band because they were taking a break while their drummer toured with the band They Might Be Giants ” During this hiatus she met Juan Pati ño, a record engineer and producer, and they recorded The Purple Acoustic Tape, available for sale only at her shows.

Loeb ’s first studio recording came in December of 1992. They eventually formed a band, called Nine Stories, but after a year of lineup changes, Liz ultimately parted with the band. She was eager to perform, though, and began touring with Liz. In 1990, she graduated from Brown and moved to New York.Īfter college, Loeb briefly took voice lessons and studied for a summer at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. They formed a duo, Lisa and Liz, and performed around campus with acoustic guitars and their own folk songs. At Brown, her roommate Liz was also a singer. She then attended Brown University, studying comparative literature and Spanish literature. She was an honor student and student council president while acting in school plays, performing music, and disc jockeying at a local school FM station. She excelled there, finding the academic challenge rewarding. For 12 years, Loeb attended The Hockaday School in Dallas, a very discipline-oriented prep school. When she switched to guitar, she also began writing her own songs. Loeb started playing the piano at a young age, but then took guitar lessons in junior high so she could imitate Andy Summers of The Police. Her father is a doctor her mother a homemaker. Lisa Loeb was born in 1968 and grew up in Dallas. She thinks nerds are the most interesting people. ” She believes the glasses, her college education, and wordy lyrics contribute to her “nerdy ” image, but that ’s fine with her. I ’d be selling out if I didn ’t wear them. She told Seventeen, “My glasses are a normal and real part of me. Contact lenses cannot correct her vision. ”Įven though her trademark tortoise-shell, horn-rimmed glasses look like a signature fashion statement, Loeb insists they are necessary. She became the first unsigned artist to reach number one on the Billboard pop chart with the single “Stay.
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Stiller added the song to the movie soundtrack, and Loeb made history. At the time, Stiller was producing the movie Reality Bites, in which Hawke starred. Loeb ’s neighbor and friend, actor Ethan Hawke, admired her songs and brought a tape of her song “Stay ” to movie producer Ben Stiller. Lisa Loeb ’s talent as a folk/pop rock musician was brought into the mainstream with her “discovery ” in 1994.
