Lisa Hartt was born in Montreal in 1949 and grew up in La Tuque and Dorval, Quebec.
[2] In addition to Vanelli, she has worked with April Wine, Rayburn Blake of the group Mashmakhan, Natalie Cole, David Foster, Ralph Murphy, Anne Murray, Phil Ramone, Brenda Russell, Ken Tobias, and Maurice White.
[15] In 1975, the Lisa Hartt Band released the single, "The Last Blues I’ll Ever Sing" bw "Let’s Live Together" on Rising RI-001X.
[17] The first single from the LP was "All Over the World" which was produced by Phil Ramone [18] The band's album created enough noise to get her a Juno Award nomination in 1976.
At that time the band consisted of Hartt on guitar and vocals, Rayburn Blake on guitar, Richard Yuen on keyboards, Marty Cordrey on drums, and their newest member Ray Hands on bass who had replaced Denny Gerrard.
[23] In the February 18, 1978, issue of Billboard, there was a report of a suggestion by an earlier article that the group had left the Rising Records label and were in negotiations with other companies.
Robert Hahn of Champlain Productions was not impressed and claimed that the band had a "subsisting agreement" with the label.
[24] On November 22, 2018, she was at a Cashbox Canada Legacy award presentation for John Harris, a prominent figure in the Canadian music industry.
[25] In 2022, she recorded a 4-track EP titled Arrival which includes the song "Don't Tell Me How I Feel" which is a tribute to her late brother, Christopher who died in 2015.