Long Island Country Recording Artist Lisa Matassa Featured on Newsday.com
Lisa Matassa, pioneer of the Long Island Country sound, is featured in a highly trafficked Newsday.com video segment.
Plainview, NY, January 28, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Long Island Country recording artist, Lisa Matassa, is the subject of a video segment featuring her music career resurgence at the age of 40 into a sub-genre of music she has coined, “Long Island Country,” and her year-long journey in recording her much anticipated album, Me Time, which debuts March 31, 2011. During this much watched Newsday.com video, Lisa Matassa belts out her jaw dropping ballad Kiss Me Quiet and discusses her love of music and her motivation for embarking on a recording career during what many would describe as her life’s “second act.”
“Lisa’s personality is exuberant and electric,” explains two-time Grammy nominee and producer of Matassa’s soon-to-be-released album, Me Time, Bobby “Guy” Graziose. “To hear her sing is to fall in love with her as an artist. Her music, and the emotion it conveys, will draw people in like nothing I have experienced in quite some time,” Graziose insists.
Likewise, Billy Joel’s longtime saxophonist and owner of Cove City Sound Studios (Glen Cove, NY), Richie Cannata, told Newsday reporter TC McCarthy, “Lisa has come along with the right sound at the right time. There’s a right way and a wrong way to make music and these guys are doing it right.”
According to Newsday community video journalist TC McCarthy, who covered Lisa for Newsday.com, Lisa’s video segment was posted on Newsday’s highly trafficked web portal at 7:30 PM on January 25, 2011, and “[saw] a little more than 3,000 hits overnight, and still climbing,” as of the early morning of January 26th. McCarthy continued, “according to the Long Island Daily, it is one of the top most visited Long Island stories today,” in reference to January 26, 2011 traffic statistics for the video segment and the accompanying article about Lisa Matassa and her groundbreaking music.
To view Lisa’s Matassa’s news segment on Newsday.com, visit - http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/plainview-mom-brings-nashville-to-bayville-1.2636732
For a content preview, visit - http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/long-island-now-1.1732330/plainview-mom-brings-nashville-to-bayville-1.2636500
Note: Only subscribers of Newsday and Cablevision systems can view this news segment in its entirety. Other viewers can see it only partially.
About Lisa Matassa
Twenty-three years ago at age 19, Lisa Matassa snagged a recording contract under the stage name Lysa Lynn, with the independent label Emergency Records which specialized in producing 1980s dance-pop sensations like recording artist Shannon’s dance anthem, “Let The Music Play.” Lisa herself enjoyed some early notoriety with two singles, 1987’s “I’ve Got the Hots For You” and 1988’s “Rock Me Baby.” Both singles got national and international airplay and reached the Top 10 on the Dance Music Charts. During this time, Matassa performed numerous shows alongside artists like Taylor Dayne, Brenda K. Starr, Judy Torres, and TKA to name a few.
Lisa eventually put her music career on the backburner to become a wife and mother of two on New York’s Long Island. Now at 40 and with stunning good looks, Lisa is ready to conquer the music scene once again, with her own unique style that she lovingly calls, "Long Island Country." With two-time Grammy nominated Executive Producer and writer, Bobby “Guy” Graziose at the helm and collaboration by Producers Joey Sykes (Meredith Brooks, Third Eye Blind, Don Henley) and Tony Bruno (Joan Jett, Enrique Iglesias, Rihanna) Lisa has just released the single, "I Don’t Feel Anything," from her soon-to-be-released album, Me Time. Me Time is an inspired musical compilation of strong, rock-based empowering songs with country undertones.
Lisa is currently recording her much anticipated album, Me Time, at the legendary Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, NY where Long Island music legends like Billy Joel, Mariah Carey and Taylor Dane have also recorded. Me Time will be released independently through It Is What It Is Records, and will be available through iTunes, CD Baby, Reverbnation, Amazon and Music Choice.
Visit Lisa Matassa at ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/lisamatassa
Visit www.LisaMatassa.com and follow Lisa Matassa on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lisamatassafanpage.
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“Lisa’s personality is exuberant and electric,” explains two-time Grammy nominee and producer of Matassa’s soon-to-be-released album, Me Time, Bobby “Guy” Graziose. “To hear her sing is to fall in love with her as an artist. Her music, and the emotion it conveys, will draw people in like nothing I have experienced in quite some time,” Graziose insists.
Likewise, Billy Joel’s longtime saxophonist and owner of Cove City Sound Studios (Glen Cove, NY), Richie Cannata, told Newsday reporter TC McCarthy, “Lisa has come along with the right sound at the right time. There’s a right way and a wrong way to make music and these guys are doing it right.”
According to Newsday community video journalist TC McCarthy, who covered Lisa for Newsday.com, Lisa’s video segment was posted on Newsday’s highly trafficked web portal at 7:30 PM on January 25, 2011, and “[saw] a little more than 3,000 hits overnight, and still climbing,” as of the early morning of January 26th. McCarthy continued, “according to the Long Island Daily, it is one of the top most visited Long Island stories today,” in reference to January 26, 2011 traffic statistics for the video segment and the accompanying article about Lisa Matassa and her groundbreaking music.
To view Lisa’s Matassa’s news segment on Newsday.com, visit - http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/plainview-mom-brings-nashville-to-bayville-1.2636732
For a content preview, visit - http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/long-island-now-1.1732330/plainview-mom-brings-nashville-to-bayville-1.2636500
Note: Only subscribers of Newsday and Cablevision systems can view this news segment in its entirety. Other viewers can see it only partially.
About Lisa Matassa
Twenty-three years ago at age 19, Lisa Matassa snagged a recording contract under the stage name Lysa Lynn, with the independent label Emergency Records which specialized in producing 1980s dance-pop sensations like recording artist Shannon’s dance anthem, “Let The Music Play.” Lisa herself enjoyed some early notoriety with two singles, 1987’s “I’ve Got the Hots For You” and 1988’s “Rock Me Baby.” Both singles got national and international airplay and reached the Top 10 on the Dance Music Charts. During this time, Matassa performed numerous shows alongside artists like Taylor Dayne, Brenda K. Starr, Judy Torres, and TKA to name a few.
Lisa eventually put her music career on the backburner to become a wife and mother of two on New York’s Long Island. Now at 40 and with stunning good looks, Lisa is ready to conquer the music scene once again, with her own unique style that she lovingly calls, "Long Island Country." With two-time Grammy nominated Executive Producer and writer, Bobby “Guy” Graziose at the helm and collaboration by Producers Joey Sykes (Meredith Brooks, Third Eye Blind, Don Henley) and Tony Bruno (Joan Jett, Enrique Iglesias, Rihanna) Lisa has just released the single, "I Don’t Feel Anything," from her soon-to-be-released album, Me Time. Me Time is an inspired musical compilation of strong, rock-based empowering songs with country undertones.
Lisa is currently recording her much anticipated album, Me Time, at the legendary Cove City Sound Studios in Glen Cove, NY where Long Island music legends like Billy Joel, Mariah Carey and Taylor Dane have also recorded. Me Time will be released independently through It Is What It Is Records, and will be available through iTunes, CD Baby, Reverbnation, Amazon and Music Choice.
Visit Lisa Matassa at ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/lisamatassa
Visit www.LisaMatassa.com and follow Lisa Matassa on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lisamatassafanpage.
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