Lisa Young
Lisa Young is a prominent musician on the Melbourne jazz scene, known for the use of wordless vocals and the use of voice as an instrument with Konnakol influences (the South Indian vocal percussion technique).
Lisa Young is a creative vocal stylist and improviser, incorporating Indian and African elements in her work. A longtime student of mridangam maestro Karaikudi Mani in Chennai, Lisa specializes in ‘konnakol’ - South Indian vocal percussion. She has studied South Indian music since 1994 both in Australia and India.
She is best known for her work with the Lisa Young Quartet and vocal-percussion ensemble Coco’s Lunch. She is currently completing a PhD in music performance at Monash University where she received the Monash – Pratt Post Graduate Award for her candidature. The song-cycle The Eternal Pulse is the major work created as part of the PhD.
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