| Lisa Lee Dark | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Lee Dark |
| Birth Date: | 1981 4, df=yes |
| Origin: | Swansea, Wales |
| Genre: | Opera, classical crossover, Christian, new-age, dance |
| Occupation: | Opera singer, songwriter, voice actress |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Years Active: | 1992–present |
| Label: | Angel Guardian Records, VIP international Records |
| Website: | Blog |
Lisa Lee Dark (born Lee Dark; 16 April 1981) is a Welsh opera singer, songwriter, and voice actress.
Lisa Lee Dark was born Lee Dark[1] in the Clydach area of Swansea on 16 April 1981.[2] Her distant relatives include Italian opera singer Adelina Patti.[3] She was born with the rare medical condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which leads to excessive generation of testosterone during the early part of foetal life.[4] This meant that she was raised as male because doctors failed to realise that she was biologically female, a fact even she did not discover until she was 19 years old.[5] She was very badly bullied during her school years.[6] She went to an all-boys comprehensive school where she would regularly get kicked, punched, spat at, and have obscene things screamed at her; even outside school, she would get the same treatment because she was slightly different and did not behave like all the other boys.[7] This left her with agoraphobia and PTSD.
At age 12 she was discovered while singing in a park in Swansea.[8] In 2000 she released a compilation CD of ten years of her recordings she called The Unknown Story of Lisa-Lee Dark.[8] In 2004, Dark released an album entitled Breath of Life. As of 2009 it had sold 50,000 copies.[9] She has released several more since, including one in French. She had previously worked on films, backing tracks and voiceovers.
Dark claims an 8–9 octave vocal range.