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In the early '80's, a young boy in Fayetteville, Georgia, watched the likes of Blondie, Cyndi Lauper and the Go-Go's on MTV and made homemade music videos with his cousins in their basement. A few decades later, this same kid is now a talented cross-dressing singer and musician living in New York City. He (she) is breaking out of the basement to front her own band which pays tribute to the women of '80's pop who influenced not just her love of music, but also her taste in clothes. Lisa's live performances can be caught around New York City in venues including: The China Club, The Elbow Room, Parkside Lounge, True, and many more. "The breathless call came in from Sweetie: 'You've got to come to the Parkside Lounge to catch..., a straight cross-dresser who does cover versions of '80s hits as Lisa Jackson.' Enough said, darling: I promptly put on my finest bangles and got ready to go-go. The act? Sporting a diagonal dress and mall-ready rocker-chick hair, big-lunged Lisa ripped into attitudey classics from "Heart of Glass" to "99 Luft Balloons" like a wedding-band singer (in Vermont or Hawaii) crossed with Hedwig playing the seafood circuit. The audience lapped it up, especially Lisa's side trips to the '70s (an impassioned cover of "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves") and the present (her original song about the beauty of being a freak "Beautiful Freak"). She's got the beat?" -La Dolce Musto by Michael Musto The Village Voice NYC, September 4, 2001 "Singer Lisa Jackson is certainly creating a buzz on the nightlife scene. After years of success as the lead (male) singer of ..., the performer has reinvented himself as a cross dresser whose act pays homage to the ladies of the '80s ... So far the response has been ultra-enthusiastic to Jackson's incredible renditions." -Les Simpson Time Out New York August 30, 2001 Check out the artist's website: http://www.eyeballman.com Track List: 1. Fabulously Done 2. Beautiful Freak 3. Dreaming and Screaming 4. The Shade 5. Beautiful Freak (acoustic) Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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