Lisa DeBenedictis

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Lisa DeBenedictis is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer, who releases her music via a number of outlets including Magnatune and iTunes. DeBenedictis dropped out of music school, but can play the piano, guitar and mandolin. Her music contains mainly guitar and piano, with synth, smart and frequently dark lyrics. [1]

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Remixes

Since the release of a set of vocal samples on ccMixter under a Creative Commons license, her songs have been remixed and sampled extensively by several artists from different countries. The samples were released for a remixing competition [2] which was an idea for publicity of her work by John Buckman.[ citation needed ]

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