[1][2][3] In 2019, Billboard identified her as one of the leading women performers in the Latin urban genre, along with Glory, Ivy Queen, Natti Natasha, and Karol G.[4] Mary Lisa Marrero Vázquez was born on January 17, 1974, from a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father in Puerta de Tierra, a neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Lisa M recorded her second album in 1990 titled No Lo Derrumbes which obtained platinum status, with over 100,000 copies sold in Puerto Rico and the United States.
The album was produced by Miguel Correa, Jorge Oquendo (Prime Records), DJ Playero, Baron Lopez, and Eduardo Reyes.
She sold out tours in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, and the United States, in which she performed concerts sharing and collaborating with celebrities like Celia Cruz, Juan Gabriel, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, Selena, and Tito Puente.
The greatest hits of this album, "Tiempo De Amar," "Everybody Dancing Now," "Ingrato," and "Flavor of the Latin," won her an award for Best International Artist in TVyNovelas and at the Premios Lo Nuestro.
In 2005, White Lion Records, recognized as one of the best labels of the urban genre at that time, signed Lisa M to her album titled Respect.
[citation needed] In 2007 and 2008 her agenda was booked as she made appearances in various clubs and also at the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach.
Later that year she returned to Miami to perform at the WMC (Winter Music Conference) 2010 and participated in important venues like the hotel pool party Shelbourne, Nikki Beach, Discoteka, and Nocturnal.
[9] Comments by Dayanara Torres were interpreted as suggesting that Ivy Queen was the first artist of her kind, slighting Lisa M's contributions.