Lisa Marie Presley
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Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of musician-actor Elvis Presley and actress and business magnate Priscilla Presley. Sole heir to her father's estate, she has developed a career in the music business and has issued three albums. Presley has been married four times, including to singer Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage, before marrying music producer Michael Lockwood, father of her twin girls.
Early life
Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, to Elvis and Priscilla Presley at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee,[1] exactly nine months after her parents' wedding (1 May 1967). After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother.[2]
When her father died, 9-year-old Lisa Marie became joint heir to his
estate with her grandfather Vernon Presley and her great-grandmother
Minnie Mae Presley. Following the deaths of Vernon in 1979 and Minnie
Mae in 1980, Lisa became the sole heir and inherited Graceland. In 1993,
on her 25th birthday, she inherited the estate, which had grown to an
estimated $100 million. It is reported that Lisa sold 75% of her
father's estate.[3]
Music career
On April 8, 2003, Presley released her debut album, To Whom It May Concern. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200
albums chart and was certified gold in June 2003. Presley wrote all the
lyrics (except "The Road Between", which was co-written with Gus Black)
and co-wrote every melody. To promote it, she presented a concert in
the UK. The album's first single, "Lights Out", reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 chart and No. 16 on the UK charts. Presley collaborated with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins for a co-written track called "Savior", which was included as the B-side.
Los Angeles Times
critic Robert Hilburn reviewed Presley's debut album. He said, "The
music on her new album has a stark, uncompromising tone" and "Presley's
gutsy blues-edged voice has a distinctive flair."[4]
Her second album, released April 5, 2005, Now What, reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Presley co-wrote 10 songs and recorded covers of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" (the album's first single, which hit No. 36 on the Billboard 100 AC singles chart),[5] and the Ramones' "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow". The song "Idiot" is a jab towards different men in her life. Unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Presley covers Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' for You" as a B-side. Pink makes a guest appearance on the track "Shine".
Her third album, Storm & Grace, was released on May 15, 2012. She said: "It's much more of a rootsy record, organic record, than my previous work."[6] It is produced by Oscar and Grammy winner T Bone Burnett.[7]
Allmusic offered this view: "On her first two albums, Lisa Marie Presley wanted to be a pop star with a difference; on Storm & Grace,
she clearly would rather be an artist, and if she's still working her
musical shortcomings out of her system, this is a stronger, more mature,
and more effective work than one might have expected. Nearly ten years
into a recording career she may or may not have wanted, Presley is
finally developing a musical personality that truly suits her."[8]
Spinner.com observed: "Presley has made the strongest album of her career in the upcoming Storm & Grace. It's a moody masterpiece, exploring the demons and angels of her life to the tune of country-spiced downbeat pop."[9]
Entertainment Weekly praised the "smoky, spooky" single "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".[10]
Collaborations
Pat Benatar and Lisa Marie Presley performed at the VH1 Divas Duets, a concert to benefit the VH1 Save the Music Foundation held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 22, 2003, in Las Vegas. Together they sang Benatar's hit "Heartbreaker", which Presley frequently performed at her own concerts on tours afterward.[11]
Also in 2003, Presley contributed a recording of "Silent Night" for the NBC Holiday Collection, Sounds of the Season. Other artists singing on this collection include Kylie Minogue, Coldplay, Michael Bublé, Carly Simon and Bonnie Raitt.
In 2006 a documentary about Johnny Ramone of the rock group the Ramones was released called Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone. Directed by Mandy Stein, the film shows Deborah Harry, the Dickies, X, Eddie Vedder, Lisa Marie and Red Hot Chili Peppers as they stage a benefit concert to celebrate the Ramones' 30th anniversary and to raise money for cancer research.[12]
In August 2007, the single "In the Ghetto"
was released. Elvis Presley had originally released the single in 1969.
In the new version, Lisa "duets" with her father. The video,
simultaneously released with the single, reached No. 1 on the iTunes sales and No. 16 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart.[13]
The song was recorded to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of her
father's death. Lisa Marie said she decided not only to sing, but to
sing with him. "I wanted to use this for something good," she told Spinner, so she filmed the video in New Orleans. Proceeds from the video and single benefited a new Presley Place Transitional Housing Campus there.[14] Lisa Marie appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to perform the song with the Harlem Gospel Choir, using vintage footage of her father.[15]
In October 2009, she joined singer Richard Hawley on stage in London. She sang vocals on a song the pair had been working on called "Weary".[16]
Hawley wants to help Presley relaunch her music career, and the two
have embarked on a songwriting partnership in which Lisa writes the
lyrics and Hawley the music. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Presley said that she was currently recording a new album in London due to be released in 2011.[17][18]
T Bone Burnett said of collaborating with Presley on Storm & Grace
(2012): "When songs from Lisa Marie Presley showed up at my door, I was
curious. I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary
music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected and
soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened
to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond
the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music
artist of great value."[19]
Music videos
In 1997, Lisa Marie made a video of "Don't Cry Daddy"
as a duet with her father. This video was presented on August 16, 1997,
at the tribute concert that marked the 20th anniversary of Elvis'
death. The video has Elvis' original vocal to which new instrumentation
and Lisa Marie's vocals were added; the recording was not for commercial
use. The song created a renewed interest in her as a recording artist.
It displayed the husky timbre in her voice.[20]
Lisa Marie's video for her debut single "Lights Out" premiered in February 2003. Directed by Francis Lawrence, the video was from her album To Whom It May Concern.[21] Her second video from that album was directed by Barnaby Roper and shot in New York for the song "Sinking In".[21]
On Presley's second album in 2005, her first single and video was for
a cover of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry". The video was directed by
Patrick Hoelck and singer George Michael made a cameo appearance in it. Patrick Hoelck
teamed with Lisa Marie for her second video from that album for the
song "Idiot" and shot the video in downtown Los Angeles. Through the
video Lisa follows a woman through the streets. We never see her face
until the end, when she gets in a cab with Lisa, putting her face to
face with another version of herself.
Presley teamed up again with Director Tony Kaye
(American History X) for the video of "In The Ghetto." Lisa Marie
Presley filmed the video 'In the Ghetto', featuring her late father
Elvis, in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. All proceeds from the video and
single went to benefit a new Presley Place transitional housing campus
there. "I wanted to use this for something good," Lisa Marie told
Spinner of the posthumous duet.[22]
In 2006 Presley was asked to take part in a video of Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down". Rick Rubin produced the record and Tony Kaye directed the video which featured Lisa Marie Presley, Iggy Pop, Kanye West, Chris Martin, Kris Kristofferson, Dixie Chicks, Flea, Chris Rock, Kid Rock, Justin Timberlake, Sheryl Crow, Dennis Hopper, Bono, Shelby Lynne, Jay-Z, Keith Richards and Johnny Depp and won a 2008 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.
Presley appeared in Michael Jackson's 'You Are Not Alone' video in June 1995, directed by Wayne Isham.[21]
Personal life
Presley married Chicago-born musician Danny Keough (1964-) on October 3, 1988.[36] They had two children: a daughter Danielle Riley Keough (born May 29, 1989),[37] an actress and model known professionally with her middle name[38] and a son Benjamin Keough (born October 21, 1992). Presley obtained a quickie divorce in the Dominican Republic on May 6, 1994.[39]
Keough is a bass guitar player in Presley's band, and also serves as her musical mentor.[40][41] Lisa Marie Presley still regards him as a close friend,[42][43] and he lives in the guest house on Presley's property.[43]
Presley described her relationship with Keough after they separated: "I
don't know how, but we've managed to stay close ... There's others that
I have pain or betrayal associated with that I won't have anything to
do with. But he and I had a special thing. Unconditional."[43] In a 2003 interview with The Commercial Appeal,
Presley commented on reports that she and Keough were planning to
remarry: "Danny is my best friend, always has been, always will be. I
love him unconditionally, but we are not together. It's not like that."[44] Keough and Presley became closer after Presley divorced Michael Jackson.[45][46][47][48] Keough's younger brother Thomas Keough had been an official witness at Presley's marriage to Michael Jackson.[49]
Twenty days after her divorce from Keough, Presley married singer Michael Jackson.[50] They had first met in 1975 when a seven-year-old Presley attended several of his concerts in Las Vegas.[5] According to a friend of Presley's, "their adult friendship began in November 1992 in L.A."[51] They stayed in contact every day over the telephone. As child molestation accusations
became public, Jackson became dependent on Lisa for emotional support.
She was concerned about his faltering health and his addiction to drugs.[52]
Lisa explained, "I believed he didn't do anything wrong, and that he
was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him. I wanted to
save him. I felt that I could do it."[53] Shortly afterwards, she tried to persuade Jackson to settle the allegations out of court and go into rehabilitation to recover. He subsequently did both.[52] In January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences, Lisa Marie filed for divorce, according to legal papers.[54][55]
Michael Jackson had originally planned to file for divorce first.
However, after Presley begged him not to file, Jackson caved in only to
discover front page the next day that Presley had filed for divorce.[56]
In an October 2010 interview with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey,
Lisa Marie told Oprah that she and Michael Jackson spent the four years
following their divorce together, on and off, in an attempt to
reconcile and said that she had traveled to different parts of the world
in order to be with him.[57] Presley was engaged in 2000 to rocker John Oszajca.[58] She broke off the engagement after meeting Nicolas Cage at a party.[59]
Presley's third marriage was to Cage.[60] They were married on August 10, 2002, in an oceanside ceremony near the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Cage had proposed just ten days earlier. Cage filed for divorce after
108 days of marriage, on November 25, 2002, and the divorce was
finalized on May 16, 2004. The divorce proceeding lasted longer than the
marriage.[61]
Presley married for a fourth time on January 22, 2006, to Michael Lockwood, her guitarist, music producer and director.[62] Keough served as best man at the couple's wedding, held in Japan. In March 2008, Presley announced that she was pregnant, following speculation over her apparent weight gain.[63] Her husband was a first-time father.[64] On October 7, 2008, Presley gave birth to fraternal twin girls, Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love,[65] via Caesarean section. The twins weighed 5 pounds 2 ounces (2.3 kg) and 5 lb 15oz (2.7 kg), respectively.[66][67] Twins run on both sides of Presley's family; her father Elvis had a stillborn twin brother and her mother Priscilla has younger brothers who are twins.[68] On June 13, 2016, Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood after ten years of marriage.[69]
She and her family live in San Francisco, California, US. In a 2013 interview with Luka Neskovic, for The Huffington Post,
Presley said that maybe one day she will write an autobiography,
stating: "It's not out of the question. I would like to have my life out
there in my own words, rather than speculations."[70]
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