Where is Lisa Fischer's Backup?

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You've heard Lisa Fischer singing backup vocals for everyone from the Rolling Stones to Beyoncé. But after decades of touring with rock stars, Fischer lives in a far more humble reality.

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0:00.0	I feel like the normal girl sort of visiting for a very long time in the not normal world
0:06.6	and trying to bridge the two worlds together.
0:11.8	This is Death, Sex and Money.
0:19.2	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
0:26.3	I'm Anna Sale.
0:35.3	Imagine being in your late 20s building a career as a backup singer and you get summoned
0:40.2	to audition for Mick Jagger.
0:43.3	This is what happened to Lisa Fisher.
0:45.4	You know, I bring my tape and Mick is sitting behind a desk and he has the boom box and
0:51.3	he puts the tape in and he's listening and I'm standing around and waiting to see what
0:55.9	this is going to be.
0:56.9	Because there's no, I don't remember being a piano or anyone there to play it or anything
1:01.1	like that.
1:02.1	So he's listening to the tape and then he says, well, can you sing along with it?
1:05.2	So I started singing along with it and I'm standing and I'm singing and he gets up from
1:08.1	behind the desk and he starts coming around to me and starts kind of moving around and
1:13.9	dancing and it's kind of not quite freaking me out but kind of freaking me out because I
1:21.0	didn't…
1:22.0	I know what he was doing.
1:24.0	He's dancing around and he's ready back.
1:28.2	She got the job.
1:29.8	Lisa's sung backup on every Rolling Stones tour since 1989.
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