Markets Media Group is excited to announce that Ms. Lisa Fischer will take center stage at the the ninth annual 2023 U.S. Women in Finance Awards, which will be held on Thursday, November 16, at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City.
While Ms. Lisa Fischer’s vocal range is legendary, her greatest gift is the ability to connect and reach the hearts of her listeners. Raised in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, she emerged from New York’s fervent studio scene in the early 1980s. She sang for two decades with legendary vocalist Luther Vandross, and released “So Intense”, earning her first Best R&B Performance Grammy with “How Can I Ease The Pain”. The album spawned three Top 20 R&B hits, and peaked at #5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #100 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Ms. Lisa Fischer has been a back-up and featured vocalist for a number of famous artists, including icons like Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, and Nine Inch Nails. She also recorded on various projects including providing lead vocals on the power ballad “Colors of Love” featured on the soundtrack for the film Made in America. She joined the Rolling Stones for their 1989 Steel Wheels tour, and continued to grace their stage for the next 26 years.
Ms. Lisa Fischer is one of the artists featured in the Oscar-winning documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom (2013), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released on June 21, 2013. This film has altered the course of Lisa’s musical journey. The clips of her legendary duets with Sting or with Mick Jagger on “Gimme Shelter” left audiences eager to see and hear more, so Ms. Lisa Fischer took the chance to set out on her own reinventing classic songs with her co-conspirators JC Maillard and Grand Baton. Their organic fusion of Caribbean psychedelic soul and jazzy progressive rock ignited Ms. Lisa Fischer’s flexibility and freedom of expression, awakening her lifelong desire to make music that “heals but still rocks the house”.
Ms. Lisa Fischer’s passion for constant growth and experimentation with different styles invited recent collaborations with jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Michael McDonald, Eric Krasno, Talib Kweli, Billy Childs and YoYo Ma, the BBC Proms / Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes from the Field” for HBO, and especially her full evening program The Classic Lisa Fischer with Grand Baton and Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the National Philharmonic.
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Being a strong advocate for women in finance as well as diversity and inclusion, Markets Media is grateful for the continued support and sponsorship of its Women in Finance Awards program. This year’s sponsors include Instinet and Mizuho Americas.
