About Lis Addison
As an active performance artist in the Los Angeles and Bay Areas, Lis has performed in numerous venues from religious centers to the Los Angeles Theatre Center, The World Festival of Sacred Music, The Staten Island Institute of the Arts, New Langton Arts, the Gene Autry Museum and the Bowers and deYoung Museums. She’s performed with rock groups like Pablo Cruise in California and Hawaii and with world musicians such as Brent Lewis, Daniel Paul, Ross Kent, Ian Dogle, Jim Berenholz, Onye Onyemaichi and Viviana Guzman.
As a dancer, Lis has trained extensively in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Kathak and West African Dance. She has taught the Nia Technique & Yoga for many years & is Zumba certified. She has practiced Dance since the age of 8 and Yoga since the age of 15. Addison is pictured in “Yoga for Wellness” by Gary Kraftsow.
Phyllis has been a student of Nada Yoga (the Yoga of Sound Vibration) with N. Indian classical singing Masters Pandit Pran Nath and Ali Akbar Khan and Bhakti Yoga under Adi Da Samraj. She’s studied these and western vocal styles for over 4 decades.
She has also studied African and American Indian Shamanism for many decades.
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Lis (Phyllis) Addison is an award winning composer/songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist, dancer and yogini. She specializes in innovative forms of music and movement that incorporate ancient wisdom and promote healing for the earth and all beings. She is also a healer and modern day medicine woman. Among her greatest joys are dancing and singing to her own music compositions and leading others in freeing the body and voice through dance and song or chant.
Addison holds a BA in music composition and environmental science and an MFA in electronic music from Mills College. She has written music for film, video, bands, solo performance and the concert stage and has authored the book and music for a rock musical entitled “The Daughters of Urth” about a matriarchy that lives in harmony with nature. Her composition teachers include Anthony Payne, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Allaudin Mathieu and Ali Akbar Khan.
Addison is the creator of VoCHeTTM (Vocal Chakra Healing Tones) designed to clear and activate the energy centers of the body. These are recorded in her CD “The Song of the Tree” which debuted at #2 on the NAR Charts and is playing in 10 countries and 41 states including XM Satellite, Sirius Radio and Soundscapes TV Radio. “The Song of the Tree” is available through New Leaf Distributing Company and White Swan and is sold in stores across the United States. The CD blends her unique vocal tones and ambient music with world and contemporary rhythms ideal for Yoga, Dance, Meditation, Healing & Vocal Toning.
Lis feels that we are like the magnificent tree, rooted and transcendent and she expresses this in her music. A portion of CD sales goes to the tree planting projects of Wangari Maathai, Jane Goodall, the Arbor Foundation and Friends of the Urban Forest.
Ms. Addison leads groups and circles that offer healing and transformation through sound & movement. Her latest creation KiVoTM: The Kinetic Voice is a vocal/dance form. She is quoted in the Italian Magazine Emme K: “The body and voice move as a single unit.”
