Lisa Addeo

A musician skilled on piano and equally at home as a vocalist and composer, Lisa Addeo brings a delicate, refined touch to her recordings across smooth jazz, vocal pop, and instrumental easy listening. Her first full-length project arrived in 1997 as the Sinatra tribute In a Heartbeat; subsequent projects mixed covers with originals and included the 2012 instrumental set Whispering Souls. The title track of her eighth studio album, 2020’s Listen to This, reached the top of the Billboard Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, and two additional singles from the same collection also entered the Top Ten before “Deep Blue C” became her fourth chart success in 2022.

Addeo, a protégée of Liberace who appeared with the legendary performer multiple times at Radio City Music Hall during her late teens and early twenties, first sat at the piano at age six. Public performances followed by age nine, and she later earned a composition degree from the Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. The 1997 Sinatra tribute featured her trio interpreting mostly 20th-century American standards, whereas the 2000 release Hotel California offered a reading of the Eagles hit alongside predominantly original material. Seasonal and concert recordings came next in the form of Spirit of the Holidays, Musical Inspirations, and Live at the Kerr, the last captured with her band in Scottsdale, Arizona. Movie themes shaped 2006’s Grand Piano, after which she issued I Just Can’t Stop Loving You in 2010 and, two years later, the ten-track collection of original solo instrumentals Whispering Souls.

German guitarist Nils produced the band-recorded Listen to This in 2019; its title track claimed the summit of Billboard’s Smooth Jazz Airplay survey. After issuing the Christmas album Comfort & Joy, Addeo revisited the Great American Songbook on the early-2020 project A Kind of Daydream. “What Cha’Know About That,” another track from Listen to This, reached the chart’s Top Ten, and the 2021 single “High Heels,” featuring saxophonist Jeff Ryan, climbed to number three. Boating and water-sports enthusiast Addeo returned in 2022 with the buoyant “Deep Blue C,” which included trumpeter Ryan Montano and marked her fourth smooth-jazz Top Ten entry.