Sasha Lazard
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Dominique "Sasha" Lazard is an American
classical crossover
singer.
Lazard was born in New York
and grew up in Paris
. She attended Bennington College
and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
, studying opera, but after graduation pursued a more electronic-influenced sound inspired by the local nightclub scene. She performed her new music at several clubs in New York, Los Angeles
, and Ibiza
before recording an album.
In 2002, Lazard released her debut The Myth Of Red, produced by Frank Fitzpatrick
, through Higher Octave Music. This album, loosely themed around the myth of Inanna
descending to the underworld, appeared on the Billboard charts for both dance music and classical crossover. It features versions of Ave Maria
entitled Ode to Innocence, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
's Stabat Mater. It also features a track entitled Tell My Why, featuring violinist Lili Haydn
that was inspired by Giuseppe Verdi
's La Traviata
. The lyrics from The Incubus, (Le Revenant) are written by Charles Pierre Baudelaire. The song Angeli was inspired by Antonio Cesti
's Intorno All Idol Mio and has been featured in the Fall 2006 Victoria's Secret
campaign, the movie Kissed by an Angel, the movie Modigliani
starring Andy García
, and was used as the theme song for the Toronto International Film Festival
.
2005 saw the release of her second album Moonfall, more acoustic in style than its predecessor.
Lazard has recorded songs for the films Princess Mononoke
, Holy Smoke!
, Cowboys & Angels, Modigliani
, Kettle of Fish and The Lodger
.
On 15 May 2004 she was married to film producer Michael Mailer
. In 2006, they had a baby boy named Cyrus Mailer.
Sasha teamed up with soprano Shawna Stone and Grammy award-winning producer Peter Asher
and producer Frank Fitzpatrick
to put their distinctive stamp on original songs, opera favorites (Una furtiva lagrima
), classical favorites Panis Angelicus
and Stabat Mater
(from "The Myth of Red") and contemporary covers from Radiohead
("Street Spirit (Fade Out)
") to James Taylor
("Close Your Eyes") to Kansas
("Dust in the Wind
") to Sting ("Fields of Gold
"). The album, titled Siren, was released on March 6, 2007 on Manhattan Records/EMI.
Her EP Miles Away is available and the full album will be released in 2010.
Sasha Lazard is not a descendant of the Lazard Banking dynasty as cited by several papers.
"The Weill family, which initially took over operations of the Paris branch, maintained their ownership of the branch offices, however, and continued to receive the largest share among any of the other partners. These latter were, in fact, only partners in name: while each of the Lazard partners received a share of the company's profit pool--the amount was later determined from the Paris office--they did not in fact receive any equity in the company. "
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Lazard-LLC-Company-History.html
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
classical crossover
Crossover (music)
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical tastes, or genres...
singer.
Lazard was born in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and grew up in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. She attended Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...
and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, formerly the California Conservatory of Music, founded in 1917, is a music school, with an enrollment of about 400 students. It was launched by Ada Clement and Lillian Hodgehead in the remodeled home of Lillian's parents on Sacramento Street. It was called the...
, studying opera, but after graduation pursued a more electronic-influenced sound inspired by the local nightclub scene. She performed her new music at several clubs in New York, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, and Ibiza
Ibiza
Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...
before recording an album.
In 2002, Lazard released her debut The Myth Of Red, produced by Frank Fitzpatrick
Frank Fitzpatrick
Frank Fitzpatrick is best known as a composer and music producer for film. He has also worked extensively in other areas of music and entertainment as a record producer, songwriter, and filmmaker...
, through Higher Octave Music. This album, loosely themed around the myth of Inanna
Inanna
Inanna, also spelled Inana is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare....
descending to the underworld, appeared on the Billboard charts for both dance music and classical crossover. It features versions of Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Maria may refer to:*Ave Maria , the "Hail Mary", a traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus-Music:...
entitled Ode to Innocence, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
's Stabat Mater. It also features a track entitled Tell My Why, featuring violinist Lili Haydn
Lili Haydn
Lili Haydn is a violinist, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and actress. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was fifteen, she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.After graduating from...
that was inspired by Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's La Traviata
La traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...
. The lyrics from The Incubus, (Le Revenant) are written by Charles Pierre Baudelaire. The song Angeli was inspired by Antonio Cesti
Antonio Cesti
Antonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation".- Biography :...
's Intorno All Idol Mio and has been featured in the Fall 2006 Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
campaign, the movie Kissed by an Angel, the movie Modigliani
Modigliani (film)
- Plot :Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and...
starring Andy García
Andy García
Andrés Arturo García Menéndez , professionally known as Andy García, is a Cuban American actor. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather: Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman...
, and was used as the theme song for the Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
.
2005 saw the release of her second album Moonfall, more acoustic in style than its predecessor.
Lazard has recorded songs for the films Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
is a 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster...
, Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke! is a 1999 Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Anna. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the New York Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival before being released theatrically.-Plot...
, Cowboys & Angels, Modigliani
Modigliani (film)
- Plot :Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and...
, Kettle of Fish and The Lodger
The Lodger (2009 film)
The Lodger is an 2009 mystery/thriller film directed by David Ondaatje and starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis and Simon Baker. It is based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, filmed previously by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and as Man in...
.
On 15 May 2004 she was married to film producer Michael Mailer
Michael Mailer
Michael Mailer is a film producer and the oldest son of Beverly Bentley and writer Norman Mailer. He graduated from Harvard in 1987. He has produced over 20 films. He has five sisters and three brothers. He is the founder and president of Michael Mailer Films...
. In 2006, they had a baby boy named Cyrus Mailer.
Sasha teamed up with soprano Shawna Stone and Grammy award-winning producer Peter Asher
Peter Asher
Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a record producer.-Early life:He was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital, a child actor and...
and producer Frank Fitzpatrick
Frank Fitzpatrick
Frank Fitzpatrick is best known as a composer and music producer for film. He has also worked extensively in other areas of music and entertainment as a record producer, songwriter, and filmmaker...
to put their distinctive stamp on original songs, opera favorites (Una furtiva lagrima
Una furtiva lagrima
Una furtiva lagrima is the romanza taken from Act II, Scene VIII of the Italian opera, L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti. It is sung by Nemorino when he finds that the love potion he bought to win his dream lady’s heart, Adina, works.Nemorino is in love with Adina, but she isn't interested in...
), classical favorites Panis Angelicus
Panis Angelicus
Panis angelicus is the penultimate strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the Feast including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours....
and Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Roman Catholic hymn to Mary. It has been variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III...
(from "The Myth of Red") and contemporary covers from Radiohead
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
("Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
"Street Spirit " is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their second studio album The Bends, which was released in 1995...
") to James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
("Close Your Eyes") to Kansas
Kansas (band)
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on Album-Oriented Rock charts, and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"...
("Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
"Dust in the Wind" is a song by American progressive rock band Kansas, first released on their 1977 album Point of Know Return.The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of April 22, 1978, making it Kansas' only top ten Billboard Hot 100 charting single...
") to Sting ("Fields of Gold
Fields of Gold
"Fields of Gold" is a 1993 song by Sting from his album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Fields of Gold" and all the other album tracks were recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London, England and mastered at Masterdisk, New York. The harmonica solo is played by Brendan Power...
"). The album, titled Siren, was released on March 6, 2007 on Manhattan Records/EMI.
Her EP Miles Away is available and the full album will be released in 2010.
Sasha Lazard is not a descendant of the Lazard Banking dynasty as cited by several papers.
"The Weill family, which initially took over operations of the Paris branch, maintained their ownership of the branch offices, however, and continued to receive the largest share among any of the other partners. These latter were, in fact, only partners in name: while each of the Lazard partners received a share of the company's profit pool--the amount was later determined from the Paris office--they did not in fact receive any equity in the company. "
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Lazard-LLC-Company-History.html