Lisa Velez always wanted to be a singer and that dream came true when the mighty Full Force production team plucked her from the dance clubs in her early teens (!) to sing the classic "I Wonder If I Take You Home". The mixture of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's performance and Full Force's production struck gold for a couple years when tracks like "Head to Toe" and "Lost in Emotion" also went on to be giant hits. Eventually the hits slowed down, but Lisa Lisa has never stopped performing. In here we talk about how she got discovered, what it was like being a teenager in that environment, what the challenges were as a woman in that environment, and her thoughts on the music. She couldn't be sweeter!
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Episode 372 - Steve Levine
Book Club - Nick Duerden author of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars
Episode 371 - Mike Scott of the Waterboys
Episode 370 - Cy Curnin of The Fixx/Stephen W. Tayler
Episode 369 - Graham Bonnet of Rainbow/MSG/Alcatrazz/Solo
Episode 368 - John Doe of X/Solo and Roger Manning Jr. of Jellyfish/Lickerish Quartet
Episode 367 - Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group
Episode 366 - Leo Sayer
Episode 365 - HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY TO US with Darryl ”DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC
Book Club - Graeme Thomson author of Theme For Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds
Episode 364 - Brinsley Schwarz
Episode 363 - Ann Wilson of Heart/Jeff Bova
Episode 362 - Brian O’Neal of the BusBoys
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Book Club - Ben Wardle author of Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence
Episode 360 - Dave Wakeling of the English Beat/General Public
Episode 359 - Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons
Episode 358 - Curtis Stigers
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