Lisa Brokop

Lisa Ann Brokop(born June 6, 1973) is a Canadiancountry musicsinger/songwriter and actress. Active since 1990 in the country music field, she has released a total of seven studio albums and has charted more than twenty singles on the country music charts in her native Canada. Several of these singles have also crossed over to the American country music charts, although she has not entered the Top 40 in the U.S.; her highest-charting songs, "Give Me a Ring Sometime"and" Take That ", both peaked at No. 52 in 1994. Her highest chart single is the No. 8" Better Off Broken "from 1999 in Canada.

Lisa Brokop
Lisa Brokop performing at the 2006 Blue Mountain music festival
Background information
Birth name	Lisa Brokop
Born	(1973-06-06)June 6, 1973 Surrey, British Columbia,Canada
Origin	Surrey, British Columbia,Canada
Genres	Country
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Libre Patriot Capitol Nashville Columbia Cosmo Curb Ellbea Amersong
Website	lisabrokop

Career

Early life

Lisa Brokop was born inSurrey, British Columbiain 1973. By age seven, Brokop was performing on stage with her accordion-playing mother, performing polkas and numerous country music songs.When Brokop was twelve years old, she began sitting in with bands throughoutVancouver, British Columbiaand joined a touring band in when she was 15.In 1990, when Brokop was only 17 years old, she issued her debut single, "Daddy, Sing to Me". The song managed to reach the top 10 of the CanadianRPMCountry Tracks chart. Her debut album,My Love,was issued the following year on the independent Libre Records label. In June 1991, Brokop graduated from thePrincess Margaret Secondary Schoolin her hometown ofSurrey;she then proceeded to move south toNashville, Tennesseeto further her country music career.

1994–1999: Breakthrough success

A costume Lisa Brokop wore for the 1993 movie 'Harmony Cats' (Surrey Museum)

In 1992, Brokop began performing in local clubs and caught the attention ofThe Nashville Network.The network began to play Brokop's video for her single "Time to Come Back Home" and had her as a guest onThe Ralph Emery Show.The appearance onThe Ralph Emery Showand a 30-minute showcase at a local club got Brokop a record deal with Patriot Records, a label owned byLiberty Records.Before Brokop began recording her second album, she starred alongsideHoyt Axtonin the 1994 filmHarmony Cats,where she played a country singer who leaves home in search of a big break in Nashville.Brokop contributed to the movie's soundtrack and her cover ofTammy Wynette's 1968 number one hit "Stand by Your Man"was issued as a single, peaking at No. 88 on the CanadianRPMCountry Tracks chart.

The first single of Brokop's second album, "Give Me a Ring Sometime",was issued in June 1994. The single cracked the top 20 in Canada, but only reached No. 52 on the U.S.BillboardHot Country Singles & Trackschart. Nevertheless, her first major label album,Every Little Girl's Dream,was released in September 1994. While "Give Me a Ring Sometime" was charting, many Canadian radio stations refused to play Brokop's music after theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissionruled that "Give Me a Ring Sometime" did not have a sufficient amount of Canadian content in the song. Nevertheless, Brokop's album went on to produce two more top 40 singles in Canada with "Take That" and "One of Those Nights". By 1995, the album had been certified Gold by theCRIA,for sales of 50,000 copies.Also in 1995, Brokop, along with fellow singersVictoria ShawandChely Wright,received a nomination for Top New Female Vocalist at theAcademy of Country Musicawards, but lost to Chely Wright.

Lisa Brokop in June 1999

In 1995, Patriot Records had been shut down and Brokop was transferred to Capitol Nashville and issued her third album,Lisa Brokop,the following year. None of the album's first two singles reached the top 40 in Canada or the United States and the album's third, "West of Crazy", did not chart at all. The failure of the album left Brokop burned out and she then ended her relationship with Capitol to take time off to focus on songwriting.

In 1998, Brokop signed with the Nashville division ofColumbia Records,where she released the single "How Do I Let Go". The song reached the top 20 of theRPMCountry Tracks chart and received a nomination forSOCANSong of the Year at theCanadian Country Music Associationawards that year. Her album,When You Get to Be You,was released in July 1998 in Canada and produced five more singles including the No. 21-peaking "What's Not to Love" and "Better Off Broken", the latter becoming Brokop's highest-charting single, peaking at No. 8 on the CanadianRPMCountry Tracks chart in 1999. The album was scheduled for release in the United States in 1998, but was not released due to the poor performance of the album's four American singles and Brokop departed Columbia by the end of 1999.

2000 – present: Continued success

In 2000, Brokop ventured on her own and launched the Cosmo Records label where she released her fifth album,Undeniable.The album's first single, "Something Undeniable", had reached No. 18 on the country charts in Canada whenRPMhad been shut down.In 2001, Brokop received two Canadian Country Music Association awards for Independent Song of the Year for "Something Undeniable" and Independent Female Artist of the Year.The album's third single, "I'd Like to See You Try", won Brokop Independent Song of the Year again in 2002.She also was awarded Independent Female Artist of the Year again in 2002 and 2003.

In 2004, in an attempt to have success in the United States, Brokop signed withAsylum-Curband issued her first single for the label, "Wildflower".The song failed to chart in the United States. An album,Hey, Do You Know Me,followed in January 2005 in Canada. The album was never released in the United States due to the failure of the first single. Shortly before departing Asylum-Curb in 2005, Brokop released the single "Big Picture" in Canada and the United States; it was never included on any album.

After a three-year hiatus, Brokop went back in the studio to record her seventh album,Beautiful Tragedy.The album was released in August 2008 on the independent Ellbea Records label and featured the hit "Break It". Eleven of the album's twelve tracks were co-written by Brokop and all tracks were produced by Brokop and her husband, country singerPaul Jefferson.

Brokop and husband Paul Jefferson have begun performing asThe Jeffersonsand released their debut album as a duo in 2011. The album has since released three singles in Canada: "Find the Sun," "Crazy On Me" and a country cover ofThe Wallflowers' 1996 song, "One Headlight".

In July 2013, Brokop signed a new deal with RareSpark media group to begin working on a new solo album. A new single, "Let It Burn" was released to Canadian Country radio on September 23.

Brokop's newest album,The Patsy Cline Project,was released on August 1, 2015. It includes sevenPatsy Clinesongs and three originals.

Personal life

Lisa Brokop married her boyfriend of four years,Paul Jefferson,a fellow country singer and music producer on May 25, 2008. The history of their relationship was documented on theCMT Canada/GACTV series,Our Song,the episode aired in March 2009 in on CMT Canada. Jefferson helped Brokop "shape the stripped-down songs of [the album]Beautiful Tragedyin the couple's Nashville home studio. "Brokop stated in 2008 that she and a small band were planning "to tour Canada's western provinces next January and February [2009], with a possible stop inSurrey."In February 2009, Brokop announced on stage that she was pregnant and, on August 7, 2009, Brokop and Jefferson welcomed the birth of their first child, Ivy Jefferson.

On January 28, 2022, on herFacebook page,Brokop voiced support for the trucker-ledCanada convoy protest-- the so-called Freedom Convoy -- a series of protests and blockades againstCOVID-19vaccine mandates and restrictions. She posted a video of her reading a verse from the bible and singingCeCe Winans' "Believe For It".She says in the video," We’ve got to send out our worship songs, we need to worship and lift this up ahead of time, as they go into battle. "The convoy was condemned by trucking industry and labour groups, with theCanadian Trucking Alliancestating that most protesters had no connection to trucking. Near a blockade inCoutts, Alberta,multiple weapons were seized, and four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. Some protesters were photographed wavingNazi flagsat the rallies. In a later post, Brokop said that the protest includes “some ugly and hateful images floating around that I definitely don’t support, but most everything I’ve seen has been about love and kindness and standing in support of each other. I’ve seen so many happy tears from people who finally feel like their voices are being heard, and have something to be hopeful for. That’s the Canada I know and love.”She subsequently continued to post in support of the protests.

Discography

Main article:Lisa Brokop discography

• My Love(1991)
• Every Little Girl's Dream(1994)
• Lisa Brokop(1996)
• When You Get to Be You(1998)
• Undeniable(2000)
• Hey, Do You Know Me(2005)
• Beautiful Tragedy(2008)
• The Patsy Cline Project(2015)
• Who's Gonna Fill Their Heels(2023)

External links

• Official website
• Lisa Brokop at IMDB