Lisa Gerrard (丽莎 杰拉德)出生于1961年4月12号,澳大利亚墨尔本的希腊-土耳其人聚集的城郊普拉兰(Prahran),父母是爱尔兰移民,她自己有希腊人,土耳其人,意大利人,爱尔兰人,阿拉伯人血统.至幼生长在地中海音乐的熏陶中,为她后来的音乐生涯奠定了基础.
Lisa的音乐职业生涯始于1981年,与Brendan Perry在墨尔本创建了"Dead Can Dance"乐队,并一直担当乐队主唱之一.1982年和乐队成员Brendan Perry,贝司手Paul Erikson去了London发展;但不久,Erikson就只身返回了澳大利亚,只留下Lisa和Brendan两人.DCD乐队一共发行了八张专集,至1998年解散.2005年,乐队成员曾重聚巡演,之后就又没有下闻了.
1995年,Lisa发行了她的第一部个人专辑.
2007年,Lisa从澳洲墨尔本出发,开始了她的首次全球巡演,途径欧洲,俄罗斯,北美.并在次年与德国电子音乐家Klaus Schulze合作发行了专辑.
2009年,她创建了自己的唱片标签Gerrard Records,并同时致力于推广和支持那些还未获认同的艺术流派.
In collaboration with Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard is half of the duo Dead Can Dance, which started releasing arty goth rock on the 4AD label in the mid-80s. Gerrard began her solo career with the 1995 release The Mirror Pool, which contained a lot of work that wouldnt fit comfortably into the DCD oeuvre. Combining these fragments with music that she composed and arranged digitally before reconfiguring them into scores that could be performed, it also draws on a composition by Handel and traditional Iranian music. Recorded and produced largely at her home in rural Australia, it extends the world music inclinations of recent Dead Can Dance albums by featuring bouzouki, tablas, and camel drums; though the somber, orchestrated pomp of Dead Can Dance is also present in her operatic, often wordless vocals, and string/woodwind passages (some of which were performed by Australias Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra). Gerrard released her second album, Duality, written and performed with Pieter Bourke, in the spring of 1998. Gerrard composed the score for director Niki Caros Whale Rider in 2003, followed by Immortal Memory, a collaboration with Irish composer Patrick Cassidy in 2004. Another collaboration followed in 2005, this time with composer Jeff Rona for the soundtrack to the Native American drama A Thousand Roads.