About Lisa Doby

For Rhythm & Blues you need emotional profundity and experience of life, for Rock you need attitude and power and for Soul you need empathy and spirit. Lisa Doby connects all these qualities and that makes her and her music so authentic.
Lisa Doby  comes from Columbia, South Carolina. She was already enthusiastic about music when she was a little child. During her school time she already played trumpet and violin and also sang in jazz-bands and gospel choirs. While Lisa Doby studied on the Wake Forest University, she joined the a-capella-band Nishati. Thereby her amazing voice was finally discovered and she started to perform solo. Her huge talent got about very fast and her audiences grew continually. During a semester in France she finally made the breakthrough: In the Lionel Hampton Jazz Club in Paris she was discovered by Patricia Kaas who engaged her as her background singer immediately. Although Lisa Doby could gather inestimable experiences, she always preferred to compose and sing her own songs, so that she assembled her own band after an extensive world tour.
Her sensational debut „Free 2 Be“, which has appeared in 2006 at Jazzhaus Records and which sold particularly well in France, already showed her multi-faceted skills. The single „That’s Love“, an extraction from her new album, showed in autumn 2008, what one can expect from her new CD „Who We Are“. The single was played by various radio stations – partially in rotation.
Now, on 24th of April 2009, the time has come: The album „Who We Are“ is ready and it fully meets one’s expectations. On the disc one will find 11 songs, as well as a video on which Lisa is performing "Feeling Good" of Nina Simone.
The opening track "Unconditionally" already points out where the trip will be going: The Rhythm & Blues and Soul is fortified by a well-arranged pinch of rock and complements very well with Lisa’s dynamic voice. This is continued strictly with the second song „Who We Are“ (the title song of the album) and is underlined with the matching "Outro" again. With the exceptionally nice song „That’s Love“ a short breather is granted to the listener, before you must automatically hum along with "That Kind Of Day", which inevitably brings the spring into one’s living room. This feeling continues with the soulful song „Everytime It Rains“, before Lisa demonstrates another side of her and presents the feel-good song "Be With You" in a jazzy and swinging arrangement. In "Just Because" the soft side of the American takes effect. "Hold On" is performed in an acoustic version, before Lisa is paying homage to her present home in Alsace with "Sankt Amarin". The many-faceted album is finally rounded with the marvellous French ballad „Plus Fort Que Moi“ and the already mentioned live video.
On stage Lisa Doby impresses due to her extraordinary charisma and her authenticity. In connection with her enormously diversified sound between rock and soul every show is an unforgettable event. Thus Lisa already has left a permanent impression, amongst others with shows in Montreux, at the Bonneville Rhythm’n’Blues Festival, as well as at the Poschiavo Music Festival. She shined next to world stars like Ray Charles, Lucky Peterson, Willy Devile, or Paul Young, who entrusted her with the opening of their concerts or actually shared the stag with her.