![]() ![]() Lisa lives in Union City, New Jersey, which isn't far from the Brooklyn apartment building where she grew up. “These are all gold albums I haven’t put up yet….that's something from Tina Turner’s tour that was a gift from her.” There are remnants of her rockstar life, but they’re stacked in a corner, as she told the makers of Twenty Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary about backup singers. ![]() LF: Just the full on bra slinging, beer chugging, screaming and yelling, tits in the air kind of audience and it’s been interesting to watch this audience grow up and now bring their kids and their grandkids, so it’s just been insanely amazing.īut when the tours are over, Lisa comes home to a life that’s not not quite as glamorous. This is from the Stones’ 2004 album Live Licks. That wailing voice on stage during "Gimme Shelter"? That’s her. Lisa’s sung backup on every Rolling Stones tour since 1989. I’m standing, I’m singing, and he gets up from behind the desk and he starts coming around to me and starts kind of moving around and dancing, and it’s not quite freaking me out but kind of freaking me out… cause I didn’t know what he was doing.ĪS: Because you’re singing along to a boombox. So he’s listening to the tape and then he says, “Can you sing along with it?” So I started singing along with it. He’s listening and I’m kinda standing around and I’m waiting to see what this is gonna be because I don’t remember there being a piano or anyone there to play it or anything like that. LF: I bring my tape and Mick is sitting behind a desk and he has the boombox and he puts the tape in. And you get summoned to audition for Mick Jagger. Imagine being in your late 20s, building a career as a backup singer. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, and need to talk about more. LISA FISCHER: I feel like the normal girl, sort of visiting for a very long time in a not normal world, and trying to bridge the two worlds together. ![]()
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