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Lisa Anne Loeb (born 11 March, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and reality television star. In 1994, she had her first hit with the song "Stay (I Missed You)". The song today still remains as her signature song. Later in her career, she moved on to other things, like television. In 2006, she had her own reality TV show on the E! channel.
Early YearsBorn in Bethesda, Maryland, and raised in Dallas, Texas, Loeb attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school in Dallas. She has three siblings -- Benjamin Loeb, Debbie Loeb, and Philip Loeb. After graduating from high school in 1986, she went to Brown University where she graduated in 1990 with a degree in comparative literature. At Brown, she and Elizabeth Mitchell formed a band named Liz and Lisa, featuring future singer/songwriter and fellow Brown classmate Duncan Sheik as a guitarist as well as the upcoming influential jazz/rock bassist Rick Lassiter while contemplating band names such as Nine Stories and Soto Voce'. The duo released the albums Liz and Lisa and Liz and Lisa - Days Were Different independently. Loeb had developed a following from her solo acoustic performances on the New York City coffeehouse circuit, where she sold a collection of her songs referred to as The Purple Tape.
Recording CareerIn September 1995, Loeb's debut album, Tails, was released. The album was co-produced by Juan Patiño, her longtime then-boyfriend. Although none of the singles from Tails could quite match the breakthrough appeal of "Stay" (which was also included on this album), Loeb still managed a Top-Twenty hit with "Do You Sleep?" and two moderately successful radio hits with "Taffy," and "Waiting for Wednesday." Tails went on to achieve platinum status. In 1997, a second major-label album, Firecracker, was released. Though critically praised, it did not have the commercial success of Tails, but the single "I Do" was very popular on radio (it charted in the Top Twenty) and music television. The song "How" was contributed to the soundtracks for the films Twister and Jack Frost. It was also featured in the Buffy episode Homecoming. The single "Let's Forget About It" was also released. At this point Lisa dropped the name of her support band, Nine Stories and performed under her own name. "Firecracker" went Gold. In 2000 she participated on Ozzy Osbourne tribute album Bat Head Soup performing Goodbye to Romance with Dweezil Zappa on guitar.
In May 2004, Loeb announced that her longtime relationship with Dweezil Zappa was over. In 2004, Loeb changed record labels once again, due to a lack of promotion from her former label, Artemis Records. She was signed to the independent label Zoe/Rounder, and The Way It Really Is was released August 2004. The album was Loeb's fifth studio-recorded album. Her latest album, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb, was released in January 2006. When not touring, or doing other promotional work, she resides in Los Angeles. Acting and Reality TelevisionLoeb has done several guest appearances on popular television shows, such as The Nanny in 1997. In 1998, she played the voice of a newborn baby in The Rugrats Movie and played a musician in an episode of Cupid. In 1999, Loeb was featured as a news reporter in the horror film House on Haunted Hill. In 2004, she was featured in Serial Killing 101. On January 16, 2004, her reality show Dweezil & Lisa first aired on Food Network, in which she shared title billing with her longtime boyfriend Dweezil Zappa. In 2005, she appeared on The Colbert Report as herself as part of a small gag in which the eponymous host could not remember all the lyrics of "Stay," and asked Loeb, who was standing by a camera with her guitar, how it went. She sang and strummed a little to jog Colbert's memory.Image:LisaLoeb2.jpg Lisa Loeb, circa 2004. She has also been featured as the voice of Mary Jane Watson in the animated show Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, broadcast on MTV. In the fall and winter of 2005, Loeb taped a reality show, #1 Single, for the E! Channel, in New York City. The show focused on her quest for love, success, career and family and premiered on the E! Channel in January 2006 in an eight-part series, coinciding with the release of Loeb's new album, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb. On August 2, Lisa Loeb co-hosted The View. In the episode, she defended a "woman's right to choose, a right to control her body, and have an alternative...something that's safe", clashing with regular co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on more than one exchange. She also did voice acting in the video game Grandia Xtreme as the character of Lutina. StyleLoeb is known for wearing distinctive cat-eye shaped tortoiseshell glasses. She says she's allergic to contact lenses. Lisa also has stated in numerous interviews she is very nearsighted with a prescription near -6.00. Trivia
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