Lisa Fischer
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Lisa Fischer (born December 7, 1958) is an American Grammy Award winning R&B singer best known for her beautiful image, impressive vocal range and talents that reach high up to the whistle register, and her 1991 hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". She has released 5 singles to date and all of them have been Top 40 R&B hits.
Fischer was born in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Before pursuing a solo career, she accompanied R&B singer Luther Vandross as a backup singer on several of his tours until his death, in addition to providing backing vocals for artists including Melba Moore and Billy Greene. She has worked several other famous singers, both as a session vocalist and a backup singer. Musicians she has supported include Chaka Khan, Tina Turner and Roberta Flack.
Her career peaked with the 1991 release of "How Can I Ease the Pain" from her album So Intense, which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 1992. The album So Intense spawned three Top 20 R&B hits and peaked at #5 on The Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Also it peaked at #100 on the Billboard 200 chart. Fischer also provided stirring vocals on the power ballad "Colors of Love" which was featured on the soundtrack album for the film Made in America. She also released a single, "On the Upside", under the stage name of Xēna, in 1983. In 1984, a club track she recorded entitled "Only Love (Shadows)" was briefly featured in the motion picture Beat Street and was later released in 1995 as part of the Hot Productions' "The Best Of Criminal Records" compilation.
She is currently a session musician as a vocalist for both Atlantic Records and GRP Records and has toured as a backup vocalist with the Rolling Stones for the past 17 years. She worked as a backup vocalist during the same period of time for Luther Vandross for a decade before his death, having to juggle her time between his concert tours and those of the Rolling Stones, with whom she has a growing audience as she plays the foil to Mick Jagger onstage more and more frequently. She also toured with Tina Turner for her Twenty Four Seven Tour. The tour was the top grossing of 2000 worldwide. She continues to backup sing for Tina Turner.
Singles
| Year | Title | Album | U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. R&B | U.S. Dance |
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| 1990 | "Glad To Be Alive" | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane soundtrack | - | 31 | - |
| 1991 | "How Can I Ease the Pain" | So Intense | 11 | 1 | - |
| 1991 | "Save Me" | So Intense | 74 | 7 | 2 |
| 1992 | "So Intense" | So Intense | - | 15 | - |
| 1993 | "Colors of Love" | Made in America soundtrack | - | 18 | - |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award |
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| 1991 | Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single - Female for "How Can I Ease the Pain" (win) |
| 1992 | Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "How Can I Ease the Pain" (win) |
| 1991 | Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for "How Can I Ease the Pain" (nomination) |