[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][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.
[8] In 2000 she released a compilation CD of ten years of her recordings she called The Unknown Story of Lisa-Lee Dark.