Lisbeth Scott
Lisbeth Scott (born 1 January 1978) is a composer, vocalist and songwriter of Armenian origin born in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She was featured on the soundtracks for the films "AVATAR", "Concussion", "The Big Wedding" (co-wrote "Wonderful Life" with Nathan Barr), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Munich. In addition she is featured in "Iron Man 2", Disney's "Wings of Life", "Spiderman" and many more. She co-wrote and performed the songs "Where", and "One Breath" for Narnia. She also co-wrote and performed "Good To Me" in the movie Shutter, "Edge of Heaven" with Joel Douek for the film "The Wildest Dream", "Real Love" (for Macy Grey) for the film "Domino" (with Harry Gregson Williams) and countless others. Her songs and vocals have been featured in hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters, many of them Oscar and Grammy winners and nominees. As a composer she has scored both television and film.
Lisbeth Scott | |
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Born | January 1, 1978 |
Website | www |
Career
In 2012 Scott began her composing career with the feature film Caroline and Jackie by director Adam Christian Clark,and co-composed with Matthias Weber "Shouting Secrets" by director Korinna Sehringer. She composed the score to Louis Schwartzberg's films "Origins" and "Machu Picchu". She has also scored the Netflix film American Son, all 4 seasons of Amazon's "Tumble Leaf", for which she was nominated for two Annie Awards,the feature film "Justine", the film "I Am Somebody's Child", the film "Dry", "The Fallen Tree" and the documentary "Lady Ganga: Nilza's Story".
For Mel Gibson's 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, she contributed to John Debney's score by writing and singing lyrics in Aramaic, based on Psalms and other biblical material.[2]
In addition to this, Scott also provided the vocals for the ending theme of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, "Here's To You", which is a cover of the song of the same name that appeared in the 1971 film Sacco e Vanzetti. She is also featured on the games Journey which was nominated for a Grammy, and "Lair".
She collaborates with John Williams, Danny Elfman, John Debney, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Brian Tyler, James Horner, Nathan Barr, Rob Duncan, Snuffy Walden, Yoko Shimomura, Kaoru Wada, and Paul Schwartz and has been a featured vocalist on 4 of Schwartz's releases which spent 10 weeks in Billboard's top ten.
She also co-wrote and performed a song used in HBO's True Blood entitled "Take Me Home" featuring composer Nathan Barr on cello. In 2010, she wrote lyrics for Iron Man 2's film music, scored by John Debney.
Lisbeth is one of several featured lead vocalists on two Globus albums, Epicon and Break From This World.
In 2014 Scott was featured on the compilation Songs from a Stolen Spring that paired Western musicians with artists from the Arab Spring. On the album Scott performed the Jimmy Cliff song "Many Rivers to Cross" that was meshed with "Once Upon A Time" by the Tunisian musician Lobna Noomene.[3]
Scott is currently contracted as co-composer and lyricist for two Broadway musical productions.
Discography
- Sirens (Zone Records, 1994)
- Climb (Zone Records, 1997)
- Dove (2002)
- Fair Skye (2003)
- Passionate Voice (2004)
- Munich (2005)
- Charmed (AIX DVD-Audio/Video, 2005)
- Rough and Steep (2006)
- Globus - Epicon (2006)
- The Ten Thousand Steps (Biomusique, 2008)
- Hope Is a Thing (2009)
- Globus - Break from this World (2011)
- Om Sweet Om (Hearts of Space Records, 2011)[4]
- The Long Road Down (Song from the Miniseries Hatfields & McCoys) (Valley Entertainment, 2012)[5]
- Journey (Sony Computer Entertainment America, 2012)
- Songs from a Stolen Spring (Valley Entertainment/Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2014)
- Om Sweet Om (Valley Entertainment, 2014)
- Bird (Valley Entertainment, 2015)
- Eternal Om (Hearts of Space Records, 2016)[6]
Filmography
- 1997
- The Peacemaker (Music by Hans Zimmer)
- 1998
- Sleepy Hollow (Music by Danny Elfman)
- 1999
- Blast from the Past (Music by Steve Dorff)
- 1999
- The Sixth Sense (Music by James Newton Howard)**
- 2000
- Dinosaur (Music by James Newton Howard)
- 2001
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Music by James Newton Howard)
- Spy Game (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- 2002
- The Scorpion King (Music by John Debney)
- Agent Cody Banks (Music by John Powell)
- Spider-Man (Music by Danny Elfman)
- 2003
- The Last Samurai (Music by Hans Zimmer)**
- Sinbad (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Bruce Almighty (Music by John Debney)
- 2004
- The Passion of the Christ (Music by John Debney)*
- Shrek 2 (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Christmas with the Kranks (Music by John Debney)
- King Arthur (Music by Hans Zimmer)
- 2005
- Kingdom of Heaven (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)**
- Domino (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- King Kong (Music by James Newton Howard)**
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)**
- Munich (Music by John Williams)**
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (Music by John Williams)
- Lair (Music by John Debney)
- 2006
- Blood Diamond (Music by James Newton Howard)
- Déjà Vu (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Canvas (Music by Joel Goodman)
- 2007
- Gone Baby Gone (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Shrek the Third (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Evan Almighty (Music by John Debney)
- Captain Abu Raed (Music by Austin Wintory)
- 2008
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams, Ennio Morricone)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Music by John Williams)
- Tropic Thunder (Music by Theodore Shapiro)
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Music by Randy Edelman and John Debney)
- 2009
- Avatar (Music by James Horner)
- Breaking Point (Music by Pinar Toprak)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Music by Steve Jablonsky)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- 2010
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Music by David Arnold. Themes by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- Iron Man 2 (Music by John Debney)
- To Rest in Peace (Music by Leah Curtis)
- Lahore (Music by Wayne Sharpe)
- The Wildest Dream (Music by Joel Douek)
- 2011
- Battle: Los Angeles (Music by Brian Tyler)
- Your Highness (Music by Steve Jablonsky)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Music by Steve Jablonsky)
- Cowboys & Aliens (Music by Harry Gregson-Williams)
- The Ledge (Music by Nathan Barr)
- 2012
- Journey (Music by Austin Wintory)**
- Exitus Roma (Music by Leah Curtis)
- Mass Effect 3 (Music by Sam Hulick)
- Hatfields & McCoys (TV miniseries) (Music by John Debney)
- High Vibrations Yoga: Inner Peace and Outer Strength
- 2013
- The Big Wedding (Music by Nathan Barr, song Nathan Barr/Lisbeth Scott)
- Broken Horses (Music by John Debney)
- Population Boom (Music by Karwan Marouf, song Karwan Marouf/Lisbeth Scott)
- 2015
- "The Boy Next Door" directed by Rob Cohen (Music By Randy Edelman and Nathan Barr)
*Academy Award Nomination
**Grammy Award Nomination
References
- "Interview Lisbeth Scott". Músicadecineblog. 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2019-01-06..
- The Passion of the Christ Director's Edition, Disc 2: By His Wounds We Are Healed documentary, section "The Score".
- "Songs From A Stolen Spring". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- "Om Sweet Om". Valley Entertainment-Hearts of Space Records. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- "The Long Road Down (Song from the Miniseries Hatfields & McCoy)". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
- "Eternal Om". Valley Entertainment-Hearts of Space Records. Retrieved 2 February 2018.