Personnel changes at Capitol resulted in the departure of most of her benefactors, but she retained the rights to her album. Although sales were low, the album got the attention of Capitol Records, which signed her to a contract and released her next album Happiness (1993). Germano also played violin on Orpheus Descending, marking the first Mellencamp studio album she has played on since 1993's Human Wheels.Īfter recording with Henry Lee Summer, Bob Seger, and Carrie Newcomer, Germano began a solo career with the album On the Way Down from the Moon Palace (1991), recorded in Indianapolis and released by her label, Major Bill Records. Germano played with Mellencamp from 1985-1993 before leaving in 1994 to pursue a solo career. Mellencamp's 2023 Live and In Person tour marked the return of Lisa Germano to Mellencamp's band. During the 1980s she also appeared on albums by Simple Minds and the Indigo Girls. For seven years she toured and recorded as a member of Mellencamp's band, appearing on The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), Big Daddy (1989), Falling from Grace (1991), Human Wheels (1993), and Dance Naked (1994). Germano was working as a violinist when rock singer John Mellencamp invited her to play on his album. When she was seven, she composed a fifteen-minute opera for the piano. She studied music, including piano and violin, as a child. Germano was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, one of six children of violinist Rocco and Betty Germano. As of 2018, she has released thirteen albums. She began her career as a violinist for John Mellencamp. Her album Geek the Girl (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by Spin magazine. Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana.
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