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Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968-January 12, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter.
She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate.
Presley developed a career in the music business and issued three albums: To Whom It May Concern in 2003, Now What in 2005, and Storm & Grace in 2012. Her first album reached Gold certification with the Recording Industry Association of America.
Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died.
Presley was married to musician Danny Keough, singer Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage, and music producer Michael Lockwood.
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Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968, to Elvis and Priscilla Presley at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in midtown Memphis, Tennessee, nine months to the day after her parents' wedding. After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother in Los Angeles, California, with frequent stays with her father at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
When her father died in August 1977, nine-year-old Presley became joint heir to his estate with her grandfather, Vernon Presley, and her great-grandmother, Minnie Mae Hood Presley. Upon Vernon's death in 1979 and Minnie Mae's in 1980, she became the sole heir and inherited Graceland.
On her 25th birthday in 1993, she inherited the estate, which had grown to an estimated $100 million. In 2004, Presley sold 85 percent of her father's estate.
In the late 1970s, a year or two after her father's death, she attended her first rock concert when she saw Queen at The Forum in Inglewood, California. She gave Freddie Mercury a scarf of her father's after the show, and expressed her love of theatrics.
On April 8, 2003, Presley released her debut album, To Whom It May Concern. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold in June 2003. Presley wrote all the lyrics (except The Road Between, which was co-written with Gus Black) and co-wrote every melody. To promote it, she presented a concert in the UK. The album's first single, Lights Out, reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 chart and No. 16 on the UK charts. Presley collaborated with Billy Corgan for a co-written track called Savior, which was included as the B-side.
Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed Presley's debut album. He said, The music on her new album has a stark, uncompromising tone and Presley's gutsy blues-edged voice has a distinctive flair.
Her second album, released April 5, 2005, Now What, reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Presley co-wrote 10 songs and recorded covers of Don Henley's Dirty Laundry (the album's first single, which hit No. 36 on the Billboard 100 AC singles chart), and the Ramones' Here Today and Gone Tomorrow. The song Idiot is a jab towards different men in her life. Unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Presley covers Blue Öyster Cult's Burnin' for You as a B-side. Pink makes a guest appearance on the track Shine.
Her third album, Storm & Grace, was released on May 15, 2012. She said: It's much more of a rootsy record, organic record, than my previous work. It is produced by Oscar and Grammy winner T Bone Burnett.
The Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation (EPCF) was formed by Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. in 1984 to continue Elvis' own tradition of generosity and community service and to honor his memory. The EPCF is overseen by Lisa Marie Presley, chairperson, and the management team of Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.
In 2001, Presley Place opened to its first residents. Presley Place provides homeless families up to one year of rent-free housing, child day care, career and financial counseling, family management guidance and other tools to help them break the cycle of poverty and regain self-esteem and independence.
Presley joined Oprah Winfrey and her Angel Network and was active in the relief efforts after hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas.
Presley gave a helping hand in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm here, she said, because I definitely needed to do something, and it just so happens this is where I'm from. I'm going to do everything I can. People need help -this is a huge catastrophe and everyone needs to stand up.
In 2011, Presley became a patron of the Dream Factory, a charity based in Hainault.
On June 6, 2004, Presley was on hand as the Grammy Foundation, in partnership with 7-UP, named Long Beach Polytechnic High School a Gold Grammy Signature School at Scottish Rite Cathedral in Long Beach, California. Created in 1998, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program recognizes top U.S. public high schools that are making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year.
More information: CNN
I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change.
I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
Lisa Marie Presley
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