Artist Biography
Predominately a solo acoustic artist, Maine-based singer/songwriter Liza Victoria Miller, aka Lisa/Liza, emerged in the early 2010s. Delivering lyrical, unusually structured songs in an unhurried, hushed manner, she causes the listener to lean in a little on folk-infused material that bears comparison to the music of Sibylle Baier and Maxine Funke. Among themes of loss, mental health, illness, and recovery, references to the beauty and minutiae of the natural world root her compositions in catharsis and hope. She recorded two lo-fi EPs in 2012 -- King, ME and Ancient Edge -- before 2014's lengthy, pared-back EP The First Museum saw a lift in production values. Lisa/Liza's debut album, 2016's Deserts of Youth, was another solo acoustic set, but she assembled a quartet for 2018's Efrim Menuck-produced Momentary Glance. She returned to a sparse, home-recorded sound for 2020's Shelter of a Song and 2023's Breaking and Mending.
Hometown
Santiago, Chile
Genre
Alternative Folk