Lisa's stage presence

[zankoku]

Is Lisa David's favorite singer?

I was watching the Christmas DVD last night and it occured to me (duh) that Lisa is teh only one who gets to sing a solo standing by David's piano. They all have solo's but Lisa is set apart.

Our Pixie Fiddler has her fiddle and Orla has her harp, but Lisa has David and his piano.

Just curious. (That's what happens with too few hours of sleep.)

Jim

[KatieK]

i have noticed that too..

Every DVD so far, David has wrote a song for Lisa
1. Send me a song
2. The blessing
3. Green the whole year round

and every DVD she stands by the piano with david
1. Send me a Song
2. the Blessing
3. The christmas song

I have wonder that too..

[Simtu]

That is actually quite natural. At least for me she is the best singer of Celtic Woman. 

[KatieK]

That is actually quite natural. At least for me ihe is the best singer of Celtic Woman. 

Yes I agree with you!

[Mel]

I believe David and Lisa have worked together for in Riverdance, but could be wrong, least I believe that is where they met.

I think Lisa just has a natural voice for piano, and David is using that, since he loves to play piano 

[KatieK]

I believe David and Lisa have worked together for in Riverdance, but could be wrong, least I believe that is where they met.

I think Lisa just has a natural voice for piano, and David is using that, since he loves to play piano 

yes I think that they did work together.  Lisa said in one of her interviews that she worked very close with David while in Riverdance

Lisa does have a Natural Voice for the Piano

[Emily!]

Lisa has a natural voice for just about anything. 

But yeah...I like that David writes songs specifically for Lisa. Send Me a Song is one of my favorites.

[cool2it]

I think we are wittnessing   the " ULTIMATE "  Mutual Admiration  example in known music!!  You can tell they both just love those songs and David is playing just for Lisa and Lisa sings just for David.  The rest of us get to enjoy them doing it.  Thank You Both!!!!

[zankoku]

Lisa sings just for David

Don't say that too loud. Rich thinks she just sings for him.

But

I know she sings just for me.

Jim

[Cash]

This is hard to describe, but I will try.

To me, on this subject, its not about who has the 'best' voice. They are all very good. But its about the individual characteristics of the ladies and also the image they present. I differentiate Lisa on 2 things with her voice. First, she has a lot of strength in it. She can not only hit and hold high notes, but she does so with authority. Yet its also very feminine. Sometimes when people say strength, thats viewed as bad for some reason when a lady gets labeled as strong. But it works with Lisa.

Think of the reverse with men. If a man is said to have a 'soft' voice, its viewed as a negative by some. But if a guy has a strong yet soft voice, he can produce an excellent sound. For example, I recently read a review for a Carrie Underwood concert. I posted the link in another thread (cant rememebr now which one lol) for a different reason. But I mention it here because of how the reviewer described Carrie's opening act, country star Josh Turner. He described his voice as "deep as a cavern yet soft as butter". Thats a great way to put it, if you know who he is and have heard his stuff.

But Lisa has sort of the same thing. A combo of power and grace. Yes sounds cliche I know, but the way it balances is different from the other ladies. I doubt we would say Chloe or Orla has 'power'. They certainly have great voices, but not the combination of power with quality.

Lisa also has an appearance of being strong, fit, yet feminie. Its sort of the same characteristics as her voice. The visual sort of fits the vocal. Unlike, say, Celine Dion or Christina Agulara or Martina McBride. The visual, petite little ladies, doesnt fit the power and strength of the voice. Thats not necessarily a bad thing though. maybe its even good. I guess its your point of view.

But to do the types of songs on those piano solos, I think you need someone who projects an image thats consistant with the sound. Maybe thats why it works.

Also, one needs to look at the difference between singing with a full band accompanyment and just piano. With the full band, if a vocalist does not have 'power' it can come from one of many other sources : drums, bass, horns maybe, etc. The voice is just one of maybe a dozen sounds in the whole. But with just piano, since piano does NOT always provide 'power' , 'strength' etc, it HAS to come from the voice of the vocalist, since there are only 2 sources of sounds, piano & voice.

[zankoku]

Nicely said Cash. there is another thing. Lisa had some stage training and that comes across by the turn of her head, her walk, stance and teh twinkle in her eye.

Off stage, she has that out going confidence as well
.
Jim

[cool2it]

I agree-- Lisa has a quality that is beyond discription but I think it's great that we all try VERY hard to do it anyway.  I have said this before, but I KNOW I would love Lisa Kelly if I met her the first time  buying turnips in the local grocery.  Maybe it IS the confidence, but there is an Aura from Lisa that has been nonexistant in any other singer that I have seen-- or heard. For this to be projected from a DVD seems impossible, but, there it is. Someday I hope to meet this wonderful lady but that's not up to me totally. I also hope I am there when Mel and Kelli meet her--- all the drooling, stuttering and pushing and shoving from the three of us would be a classic.     

[Kelli]

LOL, I don't know about drooling, stuttering, pushing, and shoving LOL  Mel and I have practiced holding each other up.  I think for me, I just might end up speechless!

I was so happy to be there as Lauren met Meav (or rather, as Meav said, "Hi Lauren" without any sort of introduction or prodding! )  That was absolutely a highlight!!  It would be incredibly cool to be there when Mel finally, after such patience and deserving it so much, meets Lisa.

[zankoku]

Hi Lisa, I am a fan

Jim

[Kelli]

Maybe when the time comes (thinking positive here) I'll print that out and just hand it to her.