“Doriza has one of those voices that comes along every ten years or so”
Lorrie Doriza
Lorrie Doriza is a Greek-american composer and performer based in new york.
She got her start writing, producing and performing songs for indie pop group Vespertina, a collaboration with Stoupe, the producer of underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. They released their full-length album "The Waiting Wolf" in 2010, a concept album loosely based around the story of Scheherazade and 1,001 Arabian Nights.
Lorrie has also worked on the electro-lounge project The Good Johnsons, with producer Dan Keller, releasing two albums of re-imagined lounge covers entitled "Introducing The Good Johnsons" and "Livin' in the Sunlight!" while performing in various music festivals and venues across Japan and New York.
in 2020 she released her first short-length original musical entitled “The masterpiece,” a collaboration with lyricist and bookwriter Allison Light, which won the 2021 Jean Banks award for best 10 Minute Musical. Together they wrote another 10 minute musical “MEAT” for their collaboration with Prospect THeatre Lab, which was performed at Symphony Space in 2023.
in 2021 she released the greek cabaret album “I Could Never Let You Leave Me,” a tribute to her late grandfather, is a full album of greek cabaret songs from the 30s and 40s that her grandfather, rising star singer and diseur of the old athens era, tony rais, sang. when tony rais’ career was cut abruptly short due to his throat cancer diagnosis and removal of his vocal cords, he faded into obscurity. more than 70 years later, after years of research, the sheet music for 10 songs that tony rais sang were found. these were then re-imagined, re-orchestrated and recorded, during quarantine, with musicians from all over the globe recording from inside their homes, resulting in an intensely personal and imaginative album, was released in march of 2021. The greek reporter called it “[A] stunning musical feat — and work of love — may be unique in the entire world.” tony rais’ story was featured on IHeartRadio’s podcast “Ephemeral.”
currently, her sophomore album with Vespertina is slated for release in spring 2024.
“Lorrie’s vocals [...] are just flawless. She writes fantastically strong melodies, and the tone of her voice, as well as her total control, stunning restraint and accurate pitching just amaze me.”
“Lorrie Doriza [...] has a theatrical style that is playful, angry and dramatic all at once. Listening to her music, it’s easy to imagine being caught up in a sardonic, sarcastic and subversive Disney tale.”
“[...] deranged, impassioned, eerie, fantastic – but altogether powerful and utterly unique.”