Lisa Gerrard

Lisa Gerrard fascinates me because she proves emotion doesn't need vocabulary. Born in Melbourne and famous through Dead Can Dance, she sings in glossolalia, wordless syllables that somehow land straight in the chest. That three-octave contralto carries a weight most lyrics never manage, and it's no wonder film composers keep reaching for her voice. What I find remarkable is how she dissolves the language barrier entirely; you don't understand a single word, yet you understand everything. To me she's less a singer than a conduit for feeling, and few artists working today operate on that frequency.

Name (English)

Lisa Gerrard

Name (Japanese)

リサ・ジェラルド

Reading

りさ・じぇらるど

Born

April 12, 1961 (age 65)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

Origin

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Occupation

singer / composer / film score composer / vocalist / recording artist

• Official sitehttps://www.lisagerrard.com
• Xhttps://x.com/Lisa_Gerrard
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Gerrard
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40580

Tags

• Victoria
• singer
• composer
• film score composer

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.