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How To Turn Your Music Into a Full-Time Living - Lisa Crawley

Broadway B Season 1 Episode 11

We talk with Lisa Crawley about how her music career brought her from New Zealand to Los Angeles, getting her songs placed on TV shows, playing piano for ‘This is Us’, Craig Robinson, Emmys After Parties, and so much more. She tells stories of her songs getting discovered on college radio stations, going viral in China, and gives invaluable advice for any musician looking to make a career out of their music.


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More about Lisa:

Lisa Crawley is an Indie-pop chanteuse who has been immersed in music since the age of four. Originally from New Zealand, Lisa moved to Los Angeles in early 2020, after career forays in London and Melbourne. Emerging from her first year in LA, during which she eschewed pandemic realities to thrive and survive, Lisa Crawley released her EP “Looking for Love  (In A Major)” featuring singles “The Right Way”, “Looking for Love” and “Clear History”.


Lisa is a four-time APRA Silver Scroll Award nominee, and was twice selected for the prestigious Banff Centre songwriter residency (Canada), where many of her notable songs were written.


Lisa has performed her own song arrangements with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra and opened for Suzanne Vega, John Mayer, Jools Holland, Paul Weller and Simply Red. More recently, Lisa donned her acting hat to star as ‘GIRL’ in the Tony Award-winning musical ‘Once’. Prior to this in 2017, the gig-theatre production ‘Elizabeth’ was co-created with Bullet Heart Club (Daffodils) featuring Lisa’s original songs and stories.


Her music can also be heard recently gracing the airwaves of TV shows ’Nancy Drew’, ‘Good Trouble’, ‘Stumptown’, ‘Proven Innocent’ , ‘The Secret That She Keeps’ as well as feature films ‘The Last Days of Capitalism’, ‘Revolt She Said’ and ‘WARU’  and you can see Lisa perform an on-screen musician on NBC’s ‘This is Us’.


As well as being an award-winning songwriter, Lisa has a vast repertoire of songs and performs regularly as a pianist/vocalist at some of the most prestigious venues in Los Angeles including The San Vincente Bungalows, The Dresden, The Stowaway and The Hotel Cafe.



Follow Lisa

https://www.instagram.com/lisacrawleymusic

https://www.facebook.com/lisacrawleymusic

https://www.patreon.com/lisacrawley

https://artists.spotify.com/c/artist/4rRqgPaVu276Un4kOki1Ym/profile/overview

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lisa-crawley/316700115


Are you in Los Angeles and wanting to connect with other musicians and play your tunes? Check out Writer's Round LA every Wednesday at 7:30 at Ivanhoe in Silverlake. It's a showcase and an open mic, so come play an original song and mingle with other amazing singer/songwriters!
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