Melbourne singer-songwriter 'Alicia Lis' releases debut single ‘Lola’

Beautifully tender and bathed in a melancholic half light where pop seeps into folk infused dreampop, ‘Lola’ is the debut single from Australian singer-songwriter Alicia Lis and is set for release on …. Crafted around a poem written by fellow poet Australian Nu Lynch, the song is both a captivating and spiritual ode to the independence of women …



No need to cry out for another
You’re the daughter, you’re the mother
Invisible seam in the cloth of grief
Stitch a silver airship for your dreaming leap

Born and raised in Melbourne, Alicia grew up with a passion for music making and the performing arts, picked up the guitar aged 15 and has been playing ever since, going on to pursue a degree in Music with the intention of recording and performing her own songs. It was while studying music that Alicia met and began collaborating with Nu Lynch.
Twenty years on from these sessions, and having spent 10 months trying to track Nu down, last year Alicia entered and won the pan-Australian singing competition Stage Door with her recording of ‘Lola’. “All my lyrics are written from personal experience” says Alicia, “but I chose to enter this song because of it’s powerful message to women.”

Drawing from an eclectic range of influences, resulting in part from a six year stint working in a record store and studying jazz blues as an undergraduate, Alicia mixes her love of Matt Corby, London Grammar, Betty Davis, Adele, Tash Sultana, Odette and Coldplay with that of Ella Fitzgerald to create a sound all of her own, where pop rubs shoulders with folk, psychedelia, funk, jazz and blues.

Now a mother of two boys and a high school music teacher, Alicia is also a confident live performer with a great connection to her audience, taking heart from fellow Melbourne artist Carla Troiano, who only began her career in her late twenties. “As my children grew up, I started getting a pull to follow my creative passion again”, she reflects, “and Carla gives me the inspiration that no matter what your age, you can still give it a shot!”

Music, like her experiences with meditation, metaphysical circle classes and psychometry allows her to tap into the spirit, taking her to another place and reality, and opening up the dreamscapes of her imagination. Like ‘Lola’ she is a spiritual being, and also like ‘Lola’, Alicia has the power to stand on her own.

You’re the one with words of a song
You’re where the, light is coming from

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