Lisa Stanley

Lisa Stanley (born 12 March 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and presenter, based in the UK and Ireland. Stanley was born in Sligo, Ireland, and is the only child of Irish entertainers Maisie McDaniel and Fintan Stanley.

Early career Stanley's career started in the 1990s when she joined the Sligo-based wedding band, The Treetops. In the late 1990s she made her first national performance at the Cavan International Song Contest. In 2000, she sang her own composition, Shine, in the National Song Contest, making it to the "top eight". She made appearances in various television shows and released her first album.

Albums Stanley's second solo album was titled Love Me A Little Bit Longer. She was voted the best country female singer in the Irish entertainment awards 2010, In 2010, Stanley released her first studio album, Lisa Stanley sings the hits of Masie McDaniel, as a tribute to her mother, who died that year. This album included duets with Sandy Kelly, Philomena Begley, her father Fintan Stanley, and with Maisie's sister, Deirdre McDaniel. In the following two years, Lisa Stanley released her third album, Duets with Philomena Begley, John Hogan and Sandy Kelly. Early in 2016, she released a new single with Max T Barnes entitled Looking for a Girl. This song featured in her fourth studio album, 'Heart And Soul' which is her most commercially successful album to date reaching number 11 in the iTunes charts for country music. In 2020, Stanley re-released a version of her national Song Contest song Shine. In January 2016, Stanley went on to launch her own show, "The Lisa Stanley Show", on Spotlight TV. In 2019, she was part of Daniel O’Donnell's TV series "Opry Le Daniel", which aired on TG4.

She is a member of "50 minutes Inside" on TF1 television in France.

Discography TitleRelease date Lisa Stanley sings the hits of Masie McDaniel 16 January 2011 Love Me A Little Bit Longer 9 February 2012 Duets 2 January 2014 Heart and Soul 24 November 2017