Lisa Miskovsky
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Lisa Miskovsky | |
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 Miskovsky live at Stadsfesten Skellefteå in June 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 9 March 1975 |
| Origin | Holmsund, Sweden |
| Genres | Pop, country pop, indie pop, dream pop, pop rock |
| Occupations | |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, acoustic and electric guitar |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Sony |
| Website | lisamiskovsky |
Lisa Miskovsky (born 9 March 1975) is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter.
Career
[edit]Miskovsky placed herself on the Swedish rock music charts with her debut album Lisa Miskovsky and single "Driving One of Your Cars", with Swedish releases in 2001. Following this release, she received two Swedish Rock Bear awards; one for Best Swedish Newcomer, and the other for Best Swedish Female Artist of the Year. She followed up with the album Fallingwater, released in 2003, which climbed to number one in the Swedish pop charts, reaching platinum sales. The album contained two hit songs, "Lady Stardust" and "Sing to Me". "Lady Stardust" was also a radio hit in Europe, particularly in Germany and the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
Some of her music was co-written and produced by Joakim Berg, lead songwriter from the Swedish rock band Kent, and Simon Nordberg.[citation needed]
Miskovsky is a songwriter as well as a singer and musician. She had the original idea and wrote the lyrics to "Shape of My Heart", performed by Backstreet Boys.[1]
Miskovsky contributed vocals to the track "Dead End" on Come Clarity, the 2006 release from Swedish melodic death metal outfit In Flames.[2]
Miskovsky performed the theme song "Still Alive" for Mirror's Edge, an action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE). A remix album titled Still Alive: The Remixes was released on 11 November 2008 to coincide with the North American release date of Mirror's Edge. The album featured Miskovsky's original version, along with remixes by Benny Benassi, Junkie XL, Paul van Dyk, Armand van Helden, and Teddybears.[3]
In 2011 she released her fourth studio album, Violent Sky, after moving record labels from Universal Music to Sony Music Entertainment.[citation needed]
Miskovsky entered Melodifestivalen 2012, the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Why Start a Fire". Lisa competed in the fourth semifinal and placed in the top two songs of the heat. Lisa competed at the final in Stockholm in 2012, where she finished 9th.[4]
Ten years after her last entry into the contest, Miskovsky entered Melodifestivalen 2022 with the song "Best to Come". She performed on 19 February 2022 and finished third, qualifying to the semi-final. She performed again at second semi-final on 5 March 2022, finishing third and failing to qualify to the final.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Besides music, Miskovsky enjoys snowboarding and has participated in the Swedish national snowboard team.[6]
Her mother, Pirjo, is Finnish and her father, Karel Miškovský, is a Czech immigrant.[7] Her sister is Carolina Miskovsky; the two have performed together publicly.[8]
She shared in a fan interview at Melodifestivalen 2012, that she is a mother with two daughters, however she did not reveal any other personal information.[9] In 2003, she married a Norwegian snowboarder, Marius Sommer. They filed for divorce in 2006 but reconciled for a time.[10] They separated in September 2014.[11] She resides in Umeå.[4]
During the 2014 Winter Olympics she was a sports reporter on location, mainly covering snowboard and freestyle skiing.[citation needed]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
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| SWE [12] | |||||||||
| 2001 | Lisa Miskovsky
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23 | |||||||
| 2003 | Fallingwater
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1 | |||||||
| 2006 | Changes
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2 | |||||||
| 2011 | Violent Sky
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4 | |||||||
| 2013 | Umeå
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7 | |||||||
| 2019 | Bottenviken
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or not released to that country | |||||||||
Compilation albums
[edit]| Year | Album | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| SWE [12] | ||
| 2008 | Last Year's Songs: Greatest Hits
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13 |
Singles
[edit]| Year | Title | Album | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE | |||
| 2001 | "Driving One of Your Cars" | Lisa Miskovsky | 14 |
| "What If" | 41 | ||
| 2002 | "Quietly" | — | |
| 2003 | "Lady Stardust" | Fallingwater | 6 |
| 2004 | "Sing to Me" | 26 | |
| "A Brand New Day" | 59 | ||
| 2006 | "Mary" | Changes | 17 |
| "Sweet Misery" | 53 | ||
| "Acceptable Losses" | — | ||
| 2008 | "Another Shape of My Heart" | Last Year's Songs: Greatest Hits | 45 |
| "Still Alive" | Mirror's Edge | 29 | |
| 2010 | "Lover" | Violent Sky | 59 |
| 2011 | "Got a Friend" | — | |
| 2012 | "Why Start a Fire" | Umeå | 15 |
| "Wild Winds" | — | ||
| 2013 | "Coming On Strong" | — | |
| 2022 | "Best to Come" | Melodifestivalen 2022 | 40 [16] |
Other
[edit]- 2005: Kent - Max 500 (vocals on "Välgärningar & Illdåd")
- 2006: In Flames - Come Clarity (vocals on "Dead End")
- 2008: Still Alive (theme for the video game Mirror's Edge) #8 UK Indie chart #96 UK chart #23 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
- 2013: Comfort You (lyrics) & Home (featuring Marion Raven) (vocals & lyrics), both songs for Raven's latest album Songs from a Blackbird #3 in Norway.
References
[edit]- ^ "Who wrote "Shape of My Heart" by Backstreet Boys?". Genius. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ In Flames (Ft. Lisa Miskovsky) – Dead End, retrieved 4 October 2023
- ^ "DICE Announces Mirror's Edge Remix Album Hitting Airwaves This November". Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ a b "Why Swedish pop is the best in the world". 30 September 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ "Melodifestivalen 2022: Lisa Miskovsky - "Best to Come"". Eurovisionworld. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky 30 år". Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky: Jag uppfattades som ett hot". Dagens Nyheter. 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Körer möter Lisa & Carolina Miskovsky". Norrlandsoperan. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "YouTube". youtube.com.[dead YouTube link]
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky och Marius skiljer sig". Expressen.se. 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Miskovsky skiljer sig – igen". Stoppa Pressarna.
- ^ a b "swedishcharts.com - Discography Lisa Miskovsky". Hung Medien. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky - Lisa Miskovsky" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
Link leads to landing page. Type "Lisa Miskovsky" into the website's search function on the top right to find the relevant information
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
Link leads to landing page. Type "Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater" into the website's search function on the top right to find the relevant information
- ^ "Lisa Miskovsky - Changes" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
Link leads to landing page. Type "Lisa Miskovsky - Changes" into the website's search function on the top right to find the relevant information
- ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 11". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
External links
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- Lisa Miskovsky at IMDb
- Official website
- MySpace
- Mirror's Edge soundtrack website (archived)
- Lisa Miskovsky record collection
| International | |
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| National | |
| Artists | |
| People | |
| Other | |
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Swedish guitarists
- Swedish women guitarists
- Swedish pop singers
- Swedish women pop singers
- Swedish rock singers
- Swedish women rock singers
- Swedish women singer-songwriters
- Swedish singer-songwriters
- Swedish women songwriters
- English-language singers from Sweden
- Swedish people of Czech descent
- Swedish people of Finnish descent
- People from Umeå
- 21st-century Swedish singers
- 21st-century Swedish women singers
- 21st-century Swedish guitarists
- 21st-century women guitarists
- Melodifestivalen contestants of 2022
- Melodifestivalen contestants of 2012