“A much needed breath of fresh air all the time…”

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Kenyan singer Lisa A. Oduor-Noah, was quickly introduced to music through her sibling’s playing of varied styles of music- from Rhythm and Blues to Lingala- yet unbeknownst to her, her family had a deep love for music that she came to know and love at a young age.

At the tender age of 9 years old, she joined her, then, school choir in Loreto Convent Msongari in a bid to compete in the Kenya National Music Festivals against schools from across the country and this sparked her interest in choral ensembles and music. After switching schools in 2004, here is where her musical talent was not only nurtured but also found more room to express itself in ways like performing for school assemblies, in intramural music competitions as well as school drama productions aside from pursuing music as a subject in school.

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Aside from being heavily involved in her high school's choir, Lisa found much more room to express herself after attending and becoming a part of her Church’s youth worship team where many Kenyan greats like producer and arranger Victor Seii and former Berklee Alumnus Eric Wainaina, found their humble beginnings. This saw her perform and also feature in various musicals, choir direct and sparked her love for vocal harmony arrangements.

Lisa has performed alongside Kenyan greats Neema Ntalel, Sarah Mitaru, Atemi Oyungu, Eric Wainaina, among many others, as well as opened for and sung alongside Vivian Green and been featured on various albums such as Charles Righa’s Urban Prayers, Noel Nderitu’s My Kind of Music and the NESTCollective’s Legacy Project, to name a few. In the more recent years, she worked with Just A Band, on Coke Studio Africa- a collaborative project that saw artists from all over Africa come together and create a fusion of music from their respective regions- as well as, most recently, performing and collaborating on the recently launched campaign song for the Global Sustainable Goals which saw her perform in front of a stage of around 60,000 people, sharing a stage with musical greats Colplay, Ed Sheeran, Beyonce and Pearl Jam amongst others, in 2015.

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Aside from this, Lisa has remained an avid performer at Berklee, putting on her own recital's-filled with original music she's written and composed- as well as performing in various students projects, senior recital's and Berklee 160 Caf shows as well as involvement in faculty performances at the Berklee Performance Center with such as Prof. Nedelka Prescod and Prof. Lucy Holstedt, over the course of her study. Lisa has also appeared in various Berklee videos such as the Black Lives Matter cover of Nina Simone's song entitled "Four Women", Njoki Karu's original song "Omba", as well as Niya Norwood and Nikko Ielasi's video "Black Girl Magic", The Nyumba Yetu bands "Beautiful Ones", including the Berklee BoCo merger video 'Broadway Sessions' to name a few.

More recently she was inited to be a part of the Robert Glasper Residency and Recording Masterclass as a student participant and opened alongside Berklee Alumnus Selah Poitier, for George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.

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