Known for his unpretentious manner and brutal honesty, Mellencamp wishes to be taken seriously on his own terms, without losing sight of where he comes from, which granted, is hard when you've never really left. Bucking the rock star tradition of leaving the hometown for more glamorous pastures, Mellencamp remains a resident of Indiana. But it also produced at least one musician, celebrated son, John Mellencamp. Seymour, Indiana, a blue collar town about forty minutes from Bloomington, is populated by about 20,000, mostly electronics industry workers. Record company-Mercury/Polygram Records, 825 8th Avenue. No Elephants, Germano's 11th studio album, arrived in early 2013.Born October 7, 1951, in Seymour, IN son of Richard and Marilyn Mellencamp married Priscilla Esterline, 1969 (marriage ended, 1981) married Vicki Granucci, 1981 (marriage ended, 1989) married Elaine Irwin, 1992 children: Michelle (first marriage), Teddi Jo, Justice Renee (second marriage), Hud, Speck (third marriage).
Around that time, Germano also collaborated with Neil Finn on his 7 Worlds Collide project, which also featured members of Soul Coughing, Radiohead, and Wilco. After touring in support of the album, Germano took a break, then began recording her second Young God album, Magic Neighbor, which arrived in fall 2009. Her music found another new home, Michael Gira's Young God label, where Germano released In the Maybe World in summer 2006. Germano's classic, twisted sense of humor was at its finest on Lullaby for Liquid Pig, which was issued in April 2003. Luckily for fans, Germano inked a deal with the ARTISTdirect imprint Ineffable in 2002. Joining other artists such as David Bowie, Anna Waronker, and Neil Finn on their respective projects kept Germano connected. Songwriting remained an integral part of her life, but having it be a means to making a living wasn't a concern. She took a job as a clerk at Book Soup and enjoyed her anonymity. She questioned her place in music and basically vowed to never make another record.Ī move to Hollywood for a simple kind of life gave Germano a much needed break. Within months, she lost her deal with 4AD. The emotional double-cross of Slide (1998) didn't do as well, either, so Germano took some time off. Excerpts from a Love Circus was gushing in adoration when it arrived in 1996, but critics didn't take to this glossy body of work. People started to connect with her, and that's exactly what Germano wanted. This particular album of sexual conflicts earned Germano her biggest praise from the press to date. (4AD eventually included the fantastically dramatic Inconsiderate Bitch EP with its re-release in 1999.) Geek the Girl, which also appeared before the year's end, captured Germano's secrets of a wavering self-concept and her disgust for social ignorance.
Sales were fair, but Germano didn't care for the major-label buzz, so she signed with Ivo Watts-Russell's 4AD in 1994 and reissued a new version of the album.
Happiness was much more melancholy and acerbic when it appeared two years later on Capitol. The lo-fi, shadowy On the Way Down from the Moon Palace was issued on her own Major Bill label in 1991, marking Germano's proper introduction as a solo artist. She found her voice at the age of 30 and developed a quirky sound rooted in folk-rock and poetry. Additional tours and recording sessions with Simple Minds and the Indigo Girls motivated Germano to do something on her own. Germano would spend the next seven years with Mellencamp, shaping a smooth, fearless playing style. She made her debut as John Mellencamp's violinist and fiddle player on his 1987 hit album Lonesome Jubilee.
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At the age of seven, she wrote her first piece of music, a 15-minute opera on the piano and, in due time, learned the violin, an instrument that would ultimately guide her to a professional career in music. Her parents were teachers and musicians who encouraged their children to play an instrument until they turned 18. Germano worked her craft without becoming a conformist music is her soul and writing is her fuel.īorn in Mishawaka, Indiana, at the dawn of 1958, Germano was the middle of six kids. Doing the big rock thing wasn't important to her, although time spent playing with John Mellencamp in the late '80s and early '90s opened her eyes to the ever-changing ways of the music business. Lisa Germano is one of those artists who's never belonged to one core crowd.
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