Lisa Gerrard is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on April 12, 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Neoclassical singer, who won a 2001 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for “Gladiator,” starring Neoclassical singer who won a 2001 Golden Globe for Best Original Score for ‘Gladiator,’ starring Russell Crowe. She was the subject of the documentary ‘Sanctuary’ from 2006.. From 2006, she was the subject of documentary “Sanctuary”.
She shared her Golden Globe award for “Gladiator” with collaborator Hans Zimmer.
Gerrard first began forming bands and creating original music as a member of Melbourne’s little band scene, an experimental post-punk scene which flourished from 1978 until 1981. It was in this scene that she first met Dead Can Dance co-founder Brendan Perry. Perry recalls, “It never occurred to me that we would one day collaborate musically together because at the time I thought her music was too avant garde. I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks”. Around this time, Gerrard became the lead vocalist of Microfilm, which released one single, “Centrefold”, in 1980.
Since her career began in 1980, Gerrard has been involved in a wide range of projects. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer.
Her parents were Irish immigrants and raised her in Prahran. Jacek Tuschewski, a graphic artist, had two children with her.
