LILLI LEWIS
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, RnB, Jazz Related Gospel • United States

Lilli Lewis is an award-winning classically trained singer and songwriter. A prolific writer, composer, pianist and producer, she began playing piano at the age of three. The social injustice themes and human rights messages that filter into her lyrics, as well as gospel tinged vocals and instrumentation, are a direct result of her upbringing spent listening to her father’s sermons and southern choirs in rural Georgia churches while learning the northern sensibilities of her civil rights activist mother. Lewis is a sought after featured performer on main stages across the United States and abroad. In 2013 she made New Orleans her home and performs regularly as a soloist and with her acoustic soul orchestra, The Lilli Lewis Project. She is also the current lead singer of sousaphone savant Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove. Lewis' latest release "The Henderson Sessions" was released on Louisiana Red Hot Records in February, 2018. The national read more...