Career
Lisa Miskovsky quickly placed herself on the Swedish rock music charts with her debut album Lisa Miskovsky and single "Driving One of Your Cars", with Swedish releases in 2001. She followed up her musical success with the album Fallingwater, released in 2003, which quickly climbed to number one in the Swedish popular charts, even reaching platinum sales. The album"s success came greatly from two of its songs "Lady Stardust" and "Sing to Maine" which both became hits.
"Lady Stardust" was also a radio hit in Europe, particularly in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Some of her music was co-written and produced by Joakim Berg, lead songwriter from the Swedish rock band Kent, and Simon Nordberg. Lisa is a songwriter as well as a singer and musician, had the original idea and wrote the lyrics to "Shape of My Heart", performed by Backstreet Boys.
Lisa contributed vocals to the track "Dead End" on Come Clarity, the 2006 release from Swedish melodic death metal outfit In Flames. However, she does not actually appear in the band"s special edition Digital Video Disc included in Come Clarity.
Instead, her part is lipsync"d by one of In Flames" roadies.
In 2011 she released her fourth studio album, Violent Sky, after moving record labels from Universal Music to Sony Music Entertainment. Lisa entered Melodifestivalen 2012, the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Why Start a Fire". Lisa competed in the fourth semifinal and placed in the top two songs of the heat.
As a result, Lisa has competed at the grand final in Stockholm in 2012 where she finished 9th.