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Dalbello
12+ albums
rockfemale vocalistsmetalCanadianalternative rock
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Dalbello (born 1958 as "Lisa Dal Bello" in Toronto (Weston)) is a Canadian recording artist, songwriter and producer. She released three albums in the pop and pop/rock genre in her late teens, from 1977 through 1981 under the name Lisa Dalbello. In 1984 she re-emerged as Dalbello, with an edgier brand of alternative rock. Signing with Capitol Records out of L.A. when she was 17, her self-titled debut album in 1977, produced by David Foster, won her a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She was nominated for the same award a second time, for her 1978 sophomore release Pretty Girls, although she did not win. After Lisa Dalbello's third album, in 1981, she took a break from recording to re-evaluate her creative and personal priorities. However, David Bowie's former Spiders From Mars guitarist Mick Ronson saw a CBC documentary on her while working at a recording studio in Toronto and convinced her to record another album. That album, whomanfoursays (a homophone for "human forces"), was co-produced by Dalbello and Ronson. It was also her first album recorded as Dalbello, and marked her transformation into an edgy rock artist. The transformation worked -- the album was even more successful on the Canadian pop charts than her earlier albums had been. The album spawned the hit singles "Gonna Get Close To You" and "Animal". Ronson and Dalbello planned to record a second album, however, over Dalbello's strong objections, Ronson was passed over by both her record label
