Lisa Stanley
{{short description|English/Irish singer and television presenter}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Lisa Stanley
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1973|03|12}}
| birth_place = Sligo, Ireland
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| nationality = Irish
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- Singer
- songwriter
- Presenter
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| years_active = 1999–present
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| television = The Lisa Stanley Show
The Phil Mack Country Show
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| mother = Maisie McDaniel|father=Fintan Stanley
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- Piano}}
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Lisa Stanley (born 12 March 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and presenter, based in the UK and Ireland. Stanley was born in Sligo, Ireland, and is the only child of Irish entertainers Maisie McDaniel and Fintan Stanley.{{cite news|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/lisas-still-shining-39530118.html | work = Sligo Champion | publisher = Independent News & Media | title = Lisa's still shining | date = 19 September 2020 | accessdate = 24 September 2022 }}
Early career
Stanley's career started in the 1990s when she joined the Sligo-based wedding band, The Treetops.{{Cite web|url=http://charitygigs.weebly.com/meet-lisa-stanley.html|title = Meet Lisa Stanley | website = charitygigs.weebly.com }}{{better source|reason=Promotional source written by someone with clear associations with the subject|date=September 2022}} In the late 1990s she made her first national performance at the Cavan International Song Contest. In 2000, she sang her own composition, Shine, in the National Song Contest, making it to the "top eight". The following year, she sang the same song at the Baltic Song Contest which took place in Karlshamn, Sweden. In 2004, Stanley toured the country with "Dancehall Queues and Hucklebuck Shoes", a show which featured the "grown-up children of [..] stars of the famed Showband era".{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/entertainment/lisa-plays-mum-as-new-show-recalls-maisies-glory-days-27533612.html| work = Sligo Champion | title = Lisa plays mum as new show recalls Maisie's glory days | date = 11 February 2004 | accessdate = 24 September 2022 }} She made appearances in various television shows and released her first album.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
Albums
Stanley's second solo album was titled Love Me A Little Bit Longer.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} She was voted the best country female singer in the Irish entertainment awards 2010,{{better source needed|date=November 2020}} Tipp FM Best Female Singer in 2012, and an Irish Country Music Radio Award in 2014.{{cite web|url = http://www.enjoytravel.co.uk/lisa-stanley/ | website = enjoytravel.co.uk | title = Lisa Stanley | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032741/http://www.enjoytravel.co.uk/lisa-stanley/ | archivedate = 1 December 2017 }}{{failed verification|date=November 2020}} In 2010, Stanley released her first studio album, Lisa Stanley sings the hits of Masie McDaniel, as a tribute to her mother, who died that year.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} This album included duets with Sandy Kelly, Philomena Begley, her father Fintan Stanley, and with Maisie's sister, Deirdre McDaniel. In the following two years, Lisa Stanley released her third album, Duets with Philomena Begley, John Hogan and Sandy Kelly. Early in 2016, she released a new single with Max T Barnes entitled Looking for a Girl. This song featured in her fourth studio album, 'Heart And Soul' which is her most commercially successful album to date reaching number 11 in the iTunes charts for country music.{{fact|date=September 2022}} In 2020, Stanley re-released a version of her national Song Contest song Shine.
Television and radio
Stanley had weekly appearances on the Spotlight TV program, the "Phil Mack International Country Show".{{cite web|title=Spotlight on: Lisa Stanley|url=http://www.theharpnews.com/spotlight-on-sligos-lisa-stanely/|website=The Harp News| date=2 November 2014 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150711044924/http://www.theharpnews.com/spotlight-on-sligos-lisa-stanely/ | archivedate = 11 July 2015 }}{{cite news|title=Sky's the limit for Lisa|url=http://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligochampion/news/skys-the-limit-for-lisa-27579730.html|accessdate=7 July 2015|work=Sligo Champion|date=13 April 2011}} In January 2016, Stanley went on to launch her own show, "The Lisa Stanley Show", on Spotlight TV.{{cite web|url = http://spotlighttv.co.uk/shows/the-lisa-stanley-show/ | publisher = | website = spotlighttv.co.uk | title = The Lisa Stanley Show | accessdate = 8 December 2020 }}{{dead|date=September 2022}} In 2019, she was part of Daniel O’Donnell's TV series "Opry Le Daniel", which aired on TG4.{{cite web | url = https://dev.tg4.ie/player/categories/irish-music-series/play/?pid=6198885426001&title=Classic%20Country&series=Opry%20le%20Daniel&genre=Ceol&pcode=104811 | website = tg4.ie | title = Opry le Daniel - S10 E5 - Classic Country | quote = This episode will be a mixture of Classic Country artists; John McNicholl, Trudi Lalor, Gerry Guthrie and Lisa Stanley | accessdate = 24 September 2022 | archive-date = 24 September 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220924211803/https://dev.tg4.ie/player/categories/irish-music-series/play/?pid=6198885426001&title=Classic%20Country&series=Opry%20le%20Daniel&genre=Ceol&pcode=104811 | url-status = dead }}
She is a member of "50 minutes Inside" on TF1 television in France.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
Discography
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!Release Date |
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| Lisa Stanley sings the hits of Masie McDaniel
| 16 January 2011 |
| Love Me A Little Bit Longer
| 9 February 2012 |
| Duets
| 2 January 2014 |
| Heart and Soul
| 24 November 2017 |
References
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External links
- [http://www.lisa-stanley.com Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626101551/http://www.lisa-stanley.com/ |date=26 June 2015 }}
- [http://www.reverbnation.com/lisastanley Music, Lyrics, Songs from Lisa and fans forum]
- [https://twitter.com/lisastanleysing Official Twitter page]
- {{allMusic|id=lisa-stanley-mn0000641575}}
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Category:English television presenters
Category:Irish television presenters
Category:Irish women television presenters