Lisa Enn Loeb American singer, songwriter and actress Date of Birth: 11.03.1968 Country: USA

Lisa Anne Loeb: Biography

Lisa Anne Loeb is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born on March 11, 1968, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and grew up in Dallas, Texas. She attended the Hockaday School, a private all-girls school in Dallas. Her parents, Peter and Gail Loeb, still live in Dallas, where her father works as a gastroenterologist and her mother is a homemaker. Lisa has three brothers, all of whom are involved in the music industry – one is a conductor, one is a musician, and one is a mix engineer.

After graduating from high school in 1986, Loeb enrolled at Brown University, where she earned a degree in Comparative Literature in 1990. While she was a student, Lisa and Elizabeth Mitchell formed a band called 'Liz and Lisa', with another student, singer and songwriter Duncan Sheik, playing the guitar. The duo released two independent albums, 'Liz and Lisa' and 'Days Were Different', before adding jazz-rock bassist Rick Lassiter and film and television composer Chad Fischer to the group. However, Lisa and Elizabeth eventually went their separate ways.

Loeb began working with Juan Patiño on her album 'Purple Tape', which was released exclusively on cassette tapes. Patiño produced and recorded the album at his home, where he also compiled Loeb's old songs, including 'Do You Sleep' and 'Purple Tape'. While selling the album at her concerts, Lisa recorded demos with Kevin Salem, hoping to secure a record deal. She also performed solo acoustic shows in New York City coffee shops and various rock clubs, traveling between Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York.

Finally, her breakthrough came when actor and friend Ethan Hawke, who lived across the street from her in New York City, introduced her song 'Stay (I Missed You)' to director Ben Stiller, who was working on the film 'Reality Bites' in 1994. Stiller decided to use the song as part of the movie's soundtrack. The future hit was released on the 'RCA' label and eventually topped the American charts. Other hits from her debut album, such as 'Do You Sleep?', 'Taffy', and 'Waiting for Wednesday', also received significant success, and the album itself achieved gold status.

Loeb continued to experiment with harmonious combinations on her second album, 'Firecracker', collaborating with Dan Coleman and producing hits like 'I Do', which reached number 17 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 chart. Her third release, 'Cake and Pie', was released in 2002 and featured collaborations with her then-boyfriend Dweezil Zappa, Glen Ballard, Peter Collins, and others. Loeb released a remix and remastered album on two discs in 2008, and extensively discussed her creative process in interviews.

Loeb has been a judge at the 1st and 8th Annual Independent Music Awards, supporting independent musicians. She also appeared in the reality show 'Dweezil and Lisa', where she shared her success with her boyfriend Dweezil Zappa. In this show, the couple traveled around the country and tried unique and diverse cuisines. Additionally, Loeb recorded the reality show 'Number 1 Single', which focused on her search for love, her career and success, and of course, her family, presented in the form of a documentary film.

Loeb has also had a few acting roles, including a cameo in the 1999 horror film 'House on Haunted Hill' and the 2004 film 'The Girl Next Door'. She has lent her voice to characters such as Mary Jane Watson in the animated series 'The New Spider-Man', Lutina in the role-playing video game 'Grandia Xtreme', and characters in the animated film 'Rugrats' and the animated series 'Shorty McShorts'.

On January 31, 2009, Loeb married Roey Hershkovitz, the musical director for 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien'. On September 2, 2009, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child.