Lisa signed to Compound Entertainment label, label run by Ne -Yo Options

[jdanton2]

as a big fan of Ne -Yo it is great to see he signed Lisa to his label.





http://www.compoundent.com/


http://www.compoundent.com/artists/lisa-tucker

This post has been edited by jdanton2: Jul 12th 2010, 8:27 AM

[holding0n2jesus]

omg this is hugeeeee


This means we're closer to getting a Lisa Tucker album!!!!

[person128]

Great news! Can't wait to see what she puts out!

[jdanton2]

an article and interview from one of her local papers in the OC.





http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/tu...ason-album.html




December 24, 2009 1:53 PM
'Idol' Lisa Tucker set to return to the spotlight
By PETER LARSEN
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Lisa Tucker made her "American Idol" debut almost four years ago now so it's a small surprise to realize the sweetly smiling singer from Anaheim is still just 20 years old.

Still in high school at the time she landed on the show, Tucker finished 10th in the season that saw Taylor Hicks win the competition over Katharine McPhee (and fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry, who ended up the most successful of the bunch), and soon she faded from the spotlight.
Article Tab : Lisa Tucker, who finished 10th on the fifth season of American Idol, is the top-placing Orange County resident ever on the show.
Lisa Tucker, who finished 10th on the fifth season of "American Idol," is the top-placing Orange County resident ever on the show.
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So it was with interest that we reconnected by phone this week to catch up on everything from her ongoing appearances on "American Idol Rewind," the syndicated series that revisits seasons past, to the album she's currently recording and hopes to have out next year.

"I'm working on my album right now," said Tucker, who still lives in Anaheim, though lately she has seen almost as much of Atlanta and New York City thanks to ongoing recording sessions. "I signed with Ne-Yo's production company, Compound, and I'm working with him on music. That's been awesome, because he's one of the best songwriters in the business right now."

She landed that deal thanks to a meeting arranged by her manager earlier this year with representatives of Ne-Yo and Compound in Los Angeles, Tucker said.

"It was like, 'Hey, come on down, maybe we have some songs for you,'" Tucker said of that meeting. "And I went over and one of the head guys there asked me to sing, and I was like, 'OK, I can do that.'

"I just sang a song and he went, 'Hmm, why don't you come down to Atlanta and we'll record a few songs.'"

That was in March, Tucker said, and by mid-summer, when she'd recorded a few things, a meeting was arranged with Island/Def Jam in New York City.

"I went in and performed for L.A. Reid and (others) at Def Jam and they were just into it," she said of the speed with which she landed a deal for an album with the label.

So far, Tucker said she's been working with songwriters, playing piano and guitar, and developing a sound she described as pop R&B with a lot of rock influences mixed in.

"Something that was very important to me on the album was having an overall vibe, not just you hear this song from this producer, and then that song from that producer," she said. "I wanted, 'This is her overall sound,' and once you hear it, there's just a vibe going that I'm really proud of."

Mixed in with recording sessions this fall was time in the television studio to tape segments for "American Idol Rewind," a revisiting of her past – her teen years, so long-ago-seeming now – in the first few months of 2006.

"They call all the Idols and they're like, 'Hey, you want to come in and take a stroll down memory lane?'" Tucker said. "When I went in to tape it they had me sit down and watch my whole season again, my video of what I did on the season, and I was like, 'Whoa, this is kind of crazy and trippy!'"

Mostly good memories came from the video tour of her time on the show she said, though there were the occasional cringes, too.

"Of course seeing my audition tape, it's always funny to watch that," Tucker said. "The whole season, when you watch it, I think of the thing that happened right before that, and what I was thinking that was going through my mind, like, 'Uhhhhh.'

"It was a really stressful feeling. Don't get me wrong, a lot of it was really fun. And you bond with these people."

As for following the show since her season, she admits to not watching quite as religiously as she had when she was just another fan with stars in her eyes and a dream in her heart.

"It's almost like knowing the magician's tricks, kind of," she said. "I watched Adam Lambert last season. I loved Adam Lambert. So I would TiVo it and catch his performances after. He is just so amazing."

As for when fans can expect to hear a little bit of Tucker's own album, she says the songs will dictate when and which first single will emerge.

"We want it to be undeniable," she said of the first song to be released. "Everyone's going to look at each other and do the happy dance, and I'll be, 'That's a wrap!'"

[Trent]

omg i cannot wait for this!

[x3 because of u]

This is really awesome. I haven't listened to any of hers in a while.

[Yuvaram]

Cool.

[My Destiny]

omg this is hugeeeee
This means we're closer to getting a Lisa Tucker album!!!!

Finally after 4 years.

[mal_idol]

I'm glad she waited, now she'll be better than ever

[jdanton2]

Lisa and Ne Yo at the A.S.C.A.P awards recently . are they dating?



http://chiaphotography.blogspot.com/2010/0...contestant.html