Wendy & Lisa

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Wendy & Lisa-



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the lovely ladies.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Wendy and Lisa are a pop music duo

comprised of musicians

Lisa Coleman



(keyboards, vocals) and

Wendy Melvoin



(guitar, vocals and occasionally on bass)

that formed in the mid 1980s.



The two were childhood friends,

both from musical families

which often performed together;

Wendy's father,



Mike Melvoin,

was an in-demand session musician

and was president of the National Academy

of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)

in the 1980s, while Lisa's father,

Gary Coleman (not the actor)

was also an in-demand session musician

for jazz artists.



The "EVIL" Gary Coleman.



~The Revolution~



In 1980, Lisa Coleman replaced

Gayle Chapman in Prince's

touring band.



Coleman was well-liked by Prince



and was asked to contribute vocals

to several tracks over his next few albums.



In 1983, Dez Dickerson

left the band due

to religious conflicts.



Coleman suggested

Melvoin

as a replacement.



Prince accepted Melvoin into the band

as they began to record Purple Rain.



The film and album were a phenomenon,

catapulting himself and the newly

named The Revolution

as superstars.



Prince's personal life also became intertwined

with Melvoin's,

when he began dating her twin sister

Susannah.



The team of Coleman and Melvoin

worked extremely well together.



Prince saw this and tapped their talents

for the albums following Purple Rain.



Their influence was particularly heard

on several tracks on the Parade album,

the soundtrack to Prince's film

"Under the Cherry Moon".



Despite their growing contributions,

the duo felt they were not getting the

recognition and credit they deserved.

During 1986 Wendy and Lisa became

increasingly disillusioned with Prince's

decision to expand the Revolution with

non-musicians,

such as Wally Safford and

Gregory Allen Brooks,

and Prince's increasing machismo

that these new members brought with them.

Unhappy and vocal about their feelings,

they were eventually convinced to remain

with the band and to go on tour that year

with the "Hit and Run" shows.

However, Prince felt spurned and by the

end of the tour he had already decided

he would dissolve The Revolution

once the tour was complete.

Hence, by October 1986,

Coleman and Melvoin

were fired by Prince

(along with Bobby Z),

disrupting the "Dream Factory"

project that was already completed

and effectively dissolving The Revolution.



~Contributions~



Prince cultivated a number of artists

who were eventually labeled "proteges".

These artists, often female artists but

occasionally bands -like The Family,



usually contributed vocals to music that

Prince had written music and lyrics for

and produced.

Because of their sometimes outlandish

onstage appearances, the duo of

"Wendy and Lisa";

(much like Sheila E.)

are often miscategorized as being part

of Prince's "protege harem."



~Vanity~



~Prince's Girls~



~Apollonia~



~Jill Jones~

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~Sheila E.~



It is important to note that,

like Sheila E.,

Melvoin and Coleman were clearly

professional musicians in their own right.



Regardless of critical assessments of either

Wendy and Lisa's or Prince's

work, the duo definitely had an influence

and impact on Prince's sound.



The pop/blue eyed soul/funk hybrid

can be heard on Purple Rain,



"Around the World in a Day"

and "Parade".



Their influence is also extremely prominent

on a number of unreleased songs

recorded together with Prince

during 1984, 1985 and 1986,

during which they would either co-write

material, co-produce and co-compose.

Prince would often create the basic tracks

and leave it to the female duo to finish,

adding their own unique embelishments

along the way.

Prince's music after their

departure became significantly more

funk-driven, while their pop/R&B hybrid

can be heard clearly on their first few albums.



~On their own~



The next year, the duo released an album

simply entitled Wendy and Lisa

with Columbia Records.



The lead single, "Waterfall"



received some airplay, and the music video

was played on MTV and VH1.

The album was a moderate success,

but did not approach the sales figures of

The Revolution.

The sound was a continuation

of the pop/dance/R&B fusion that had been the

hallmark of their work with Prince;

many Prince fans that were more fond

of his funkier music did not follow the duo's work.

They released a follow up album,

"Fruit At the Bottom",

which was not a commercial success.



After a few years,

the duo signed with Virgin Records

(already their label in Europe)

and released

Eroica,



an album with a more alternative rock feel.

They had a minor radio and dance club

hit with the single "Strung Out".



In 1991, Virgin UK released

"Re-mix-In-a-Carnation",

a selection of club mixes from

the first three albums as remixed

by producers like

The Orb,

William Orbit,

and Nellee Hooper.



In the mid-Nineties,

Wendy and Lisa worked on

several movie projects

with record producer Trevor Horn,

including session work with Sea

and vocals on the soundtrack for "Toys"

and their first scoring work,

for "Dangerous Minds".

During this period, they worked

to record a full length

album under Horn's production,

however the project (sometimes mistakenly

called

"Friendly Fire"

by fans and bootleggers)

has never been released.



They are also responsible for the

music for several television shows in production,

including the award winning-

"Heroes"



and

"Crossing Jordan", both on NBC.



~Girl Bros.

and beyond~



Feeling confined by the

"Wendy and Lisa"

moniker, the duo enlisted alternative producer

Tchad Blake

(Soul Coughing, Cibo Matto)

and released a CD in 1998

under the name "Girl Bros".

Their sound had begun to evolve

on "Eroica" and while Girl Bros

was still pop/funk based,

it also could be categorized as alternative music.



Melvoin and Coleman

have made numerous contributions

to film scores and to television themes

(for example, they wrote theme music

and background scores for TV-shows

such as

Crossing Jordan,

Carnivale

and their newest venture

The Bionic Woman



&

Heroes).



Their latest film score was for

"Something New",

released in February 2006.



As sessionists and producers,

they have also appeared,

together or separately,

on albums by Sheryl Crow,

Eric Clapton,

Neil Finn,

Joni Mitchell,

Me'shell Ndegeocello,

Michael Penn,

Liz Phair,

Seal,

Lisa Marie Presley,

Shenkar,

and Victoria Williams,

to name a few.

They have been frequent collaborators

with k.d. lang,

whom they first worked with during "Eroica";

they have played on all of her subsequent albums.

In 2005, Wendy Melvoin

produced the first commercial album by The Like.



Melvoin's brother-in-law Doyle Bramhall II

is another frequent collaborator;

Wendy and Lisa performed on his first

and second albums (producing the first)

in addition to performing alongside him on

several other artists' sessions.

In the summer of 2005,

Wendy and Lisa performed live as "Pacifico"

in a supergroup band that also included

Bramhall,

Susannah Melvoin,

drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr.,

and hip hop writer/producer

Mike Elizondo, Jr.

(better known for his work with Eminem and 50 Cent).

The set of shows at Hollywood's "Largo"

was marked by special guest performances

which included Coleman's sister

Cole Ynda, singer Nikka Costa, and Eric Clapton.

Another supergroup,

Funksway,

is featured in the 2006 music documentary

"Before the Music Dies."

That incarnation replaces

Abe Laboriel, Jr. with The Roots'

?uestlove and adds Erykah Badu.

In addition to their featured performance in the movie,

the group played a live set during the 2006

South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas

to celebrate the film's world premiere.



The duo's somewhat erratic relationship

with Prince

has continued;

in 2006, the duo accompanied Prince

on-stage during his performance

at the 2006 Brit Awards

in London,

where they performed such songs as

"Fury" and "Purple Rain".

It was the first time in 20 years that the

three had played together in front of a

live audience

(Sheila E. also joined the band on-stage).