Lisa D'Amato
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Lisa Marie D'Amato is an American recording artist, fashion model and television personality from Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. She first came into the public eye as a participant on the 5th cycle
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5 was the fifth cycle of America's Next Top Model. The judging panel ensemble was altered - Janice Dickinson was replaced by one of the most recognizable models of the 1960s, Twiggy, and Nolé Marin was replaced by runway coach J. Alexander...

 and cycle 17 of the reality TV series America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

.

America's Next Top Model

D'Amato claims to have been dared to send in an audition tape to America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

 because her friends were obsessed with the show. After a year of persuasion, she decided to participate in the program realizing she had nothing to lose.

On the show, D'Amato soon became known as the "most notorious" of the models, not scared to speak her mind to the other contestants. She would run around the contestants' house with wigs, masks and weird outfits, and one time after getting drunk, she had a long conversation with a Pampas Grass
Pampas Grass
Cortaderia selloana, commonly known as pampas grass, is a tall grass native to southern South America, including the pampas after which it is named, and Patagonia....

 bush she named "Cousin It".

The judges eliminated D'Amato eighth, as they perceived her confidence as arrogance, although her pictures and personality had been considered some of the strongest of the contestants.

D'Amato has shown discontent with her elimination and the show in general by writing about it in her blog. She stated that she thought the show to be very manipulative in their ways and not very helpful in terms of learning new things about modeling. She believes that her modeling career would have been better off without the show since she was already booking jobs prior to being a contestant. She has stated: "If you really want to model better off just walking into a modeling agency rather than audition for America's Next Top Model. The show is only about drama. 'Shocker!'."

America's Next Top Model ALL-STARS

D'Amato is currently participating as a contestant on the first All-Star edition of America's Next Top Model along with other returning models.

Modeling career

D'Amato has been modeling since the age of 12, a fact that went unmentioned on America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model
America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

, starring in advertisements for companies such as: XOXO
XOXO
XOXO is an XML microformat for outlines built on top of XHTML. Developed by several authors as an attempt to reuse XHTML building blocks instead of inventing unnecessary new XML elements/attributes, XOXO is based on existing conventions for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web.The...

, Barneys New York
Barneys New York
Barneys New York is a chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. The chain owns large stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale, and smaller stores in other locations across the United States.Brands sold include...

, Mervyn's, Teen Magazine
Teen magazine
Teen magazines are magazines aimed at female teenage readers. They usually consist of gossip, news, fashion tips and interviews and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products and inserts. Magazines targeting teenage boys are not often called teen...

, Sassy, YM
YM (magazine)
YM was an American teen magazine that began in 1932. It was published for 72 years and was the second-oldest girls' magazine in the United States...

, Seventeen
Seventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...

, Guess, Flojos, Surfer Magazine, Dragonfly
Dragonfly
A dragonfly is a winged insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera . It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body...

. She has travelled around the world doing runway shows and print for Barneys New York, XOXO
XOXO
XOXO is an XML microformat for outlines built on top of XHTML. Developed by several authors as an attempt to reuse XHTML building blocks instead of inventing unnecessary new XML elements/attributes, XOXO is based on existing conventions for publishing outlines, lists, and blogrolls on the Web.The...

, Guess, Jared Gold
Jared Gold
Jared Gold is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion.-Biography:Gold grew up in Idaho Falls and was already a child piano prodigy long before he discovered fashion design. In 1990 he attended the Piano Conservatory of Hawaii for a year and soon after took up the harpsichord....

, Devon Becke's, Levi's, H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....

, Diane Von Furstenberg
Diane von Fürstenberg
Diane von Fürstenberg, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg , is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her iconic wrap dress. She initially rose to prominence when she married into the German princely House of Fürstenberg, as the wife of Prince Egon of Fürstenberg...

, 2BeFree, Clementyne, Sebastian's International, Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

's Bon Voyage campaign, Q101
Q101 Chicago
Q101 is an alternative radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan area. The radio station was set to be shut down on July 14th, 2011, but was purchased last minute by Chicago entrepreneurs Matt Dubiel and Mike Noonan...

 (a local radio station in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

), Target
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...

, and The Gap
Gap (clothing retailer)
The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...

's "Mellow Yellow
Mellow Yellow
"Mellow Yellow" is a song and single release by Donovan. It reached #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. in 1966 and #8 in the UK in early 1967....

" campaign.

After ANTM, D'Amato signed with L.A Models and L.A Talent which resulted her starring in an ad campaigns like : Black Chandelier, designed by Jared Gold
Jared Gold
Jared Gold is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion.-Biography:Gold grew up in Idaho Falls and was already a child piano prodigy long before he discovered fashion design. In 1990 he attended the Piano Conservatory of Hawaii for a year and soon after took up the harpsichord....

, Clementyne, DaftBird, Swindle Magazine
Swindle Magazine
Swindle was a bi-monthly arts and culture publication founded in 2004 by artist Shepard Fairey. Swindle has not been published since 2009 and is, in effect, folded....

 (where she had a 6 page editorial and write-up), Lemonade magazine (where she had a six page spread and write-up). She has also modeled for Shoshanna Lonstein, DaftBird, Ford Fusion, Clementyne, Lip Service, Elle Girl
Elle Girl
Elle Girl was the largest older-teen fashion and beauty magazine brand in the world with 12 editions and supplements worldwide. Launched in August 2001, it was the younger sibling to Elle magazine, and similarly focused on beauty, health, entertainment and looked at daring fashion—its slogan: "Dare...

 Magazine, Lemonade magazine, Lilian Kha, and Permission
Permission (magazine)
Permission was one of the largest gothic magazines of the 1990s. Begun in 1992 in Chicago by Jayson Elliot, the first issue appeared as a newsprint 'zine, with a mix of articles about bands , amateur poetry, disturbing comics , and fiction by local industrial musicians such as Jim...

 magazine, where she appeared on the cover of its October 2006 issue. Her runway shows include Jared Gold
Jared Gold
Jared Gold is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion.-Biography:Gold grew up in Idaho Falls and was already a child piano prodigy long before he discovered fashion design. In 1990 he attended the Piano Conservatory of Hawaii for a year and soon after took up the harpsichord....

, 2BeFree, Alice + Olivia
Alice + Olivia
Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet is a contemporary women's clothing brand designed by founder Stacey Bendet.Alice + Olivia has grown into 50 million dollar brand including a mens line and a children's line since its launch at Barneys in 2002...

's Fall 2006 collection and Jared Gold
Jared Gold
Jared Gold is a fashion designer of avant-garde American Gothic fashion.-Biography:Gold grew up in Idaho Falls and was already a child piano prodigy long before he discovered fashion design. In 1990 he attended the Piano Conservatory of Hawaii for a year and soon after took up the harpsichord....

's Caspian Runway Show. D'Amato has also appeared in two Old Navy
Old Navy
Old Navy is an American clothing brand as well as a chain of stores owned by Gap, Inc., with corporate operations in San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San Francisco.Gap, Inc. was run by...

 commercials and on Ripe TV
Ripe TV
RipeTV was the first Television On Demand network to offer programming over multiple platforms . The network, which launched in 2002 by Ryan Magnussen, targeted an audience of 18-34 males, with mostly short-form content...

.

Other

D'Amato won an award from "The Reality Remix Awards" for "Favorite Altered State". She was recently voted as one of the most memorable contestants by AOL
AOL
AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

 Entertainment. and as the tenth biggest villain in reality TV by TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...

.

D'Amato appeared on the third season of Celebrity Rehab.

Music career

D'Amato has pursued a career in music and has made a transition from modeling to performing, particularly in the rap
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

, electro rap
Electro-hop
Electro hop is the fusion of electro, electroclash, electropop, electronica, or electronic dance music with hip hop. The music usually has dancing in mind, however some forms of the music are electronica...

 and hip-hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 genres. On October 8, 2007, the music video for her song "Ace of Spades" dropped, garnering nearly one million plays. Later she worked with Cisco Adler
Cisco Adler
Cisco Sam Adler is an American musician and former frontman for the band Whitestarr.Adler is the son of music producer and director Lou Adler and Phyllis Somer. He is also a relative of actress Daryl Hannah through his father's marriage to her sister Page Hannah.In 2008 Adler left Whitestarr, and...

 (Whitestarr
Whitestarr
Whitestarr is an American rock band from Malibu, California. The band has garnered attention owing to the members' relationships and to their television series...

, Shwayze
Shwayze
Aaron Smith , better known by his stage name Shwayze, is an American rapper.Born and raised in Malibu, California, Shwayze worked at a local Starbucks coffee shop until he met Whitestarr frontman Cisco Adler at a nightclub. One night Shwayze jumped on stage during Whitestarr's performance and...

, Dirt Nasty, Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon is an American rapper from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records...

). This partnership resulted in tracks including "My Name Is Lisa" and "Bikini." Adler and D'Amato collaborated on videos for those tracks. Her song "Can't Touch It!" was featured on the HBO show Entourage
Entourage (TV series)
Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...

.

Debut album

Her debut album called "La Puchinetta" was released in December 2009. The collaborators include DJ Lethal
DJ Lethal
Leor Dimant , better known as DJ Lethal, is a turntablist and producer and member of the bands Limp Bizkit, House of Pain and La Coka Nostra.-Early life:Leor Dimant was born in Riga, Latvia, when this country was still part of the Soviet Union...

 (House of Pain
House of Pain
House of Pain is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career again. The group's name is a reference to the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr...

, Everlast
Everlast (musician)
Erik Francis Schrody , better known by his stage name Everlast, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and songwriter, known for his solo hit "What It's Like" and as the front-man for rap group House of Pain. He is also part of the hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra, which consists of members of...

), and DJ Gavin O'Connor . Between recording sessions, D'Amato has performed throughout the Southwestern United States, doing shows with her backup dancers, dubbed "The Super Smokin' Hot Bikini Dancers". She has opened for, or worked with LMFAO
LMFAO (band)
LMFAO is an American electro pop duo consisting of rappers, producers, dancers, and DJs Redfoo and SkyBlu . The group formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Redfoo is SkyBlu's uncle. Redfoo is also the son of music mogul Berry Gordy, SkyBlu a grandson...

, Hyper Crush
Hyper Crush
Hyper Crush is a band from Los Angeles, California. It consists of a rapper, Donny Fontaine, a vocalist, Holly Valentine, and a DJ/keytarist, Preston Moronie.-Early career :Hyper Crush began with Fontaine and Moronie...

, 3OH!3
3OH!3
3OH!3 is an American electro hop duo from Boulder, Colorado, made up of Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte. They are best known for their single "Don't Trust Me" from their album Want, which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100...

, Shwayze
Shwayze
Aaron Smith , better known by his stage name Shwayze, is an American rapper.Born and raised in Malibu, California, Shwayze worked at a local Starbucks coffee shop until he met Whitestarr frontman Cisco Adler at a nightclub. One night Shwayze jumped on stage during Whitestarr's performance and...

, Dirt Nasty, Andre Legacy, and Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon is an American rapper from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records...

, Ultraviolet Sound, Electric Valentine, Boomkat
Boomkat
Boomkat is an electronic and pop music duo, with brother-and-sister Kellin and Taryn Manning. The group released their debut album Boomkatalog.One in 2003, and their second album A Million Trillion Stars in 2009...

 and The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...

.

Sophomore album

Lisa's sophomore album Flippin' The Bird will be released in September 2011 which will include collaborations with The Cataracs
The Cataracs
The Cataracs are an American hip hop indie-pop duo formed in Berkeley, California, consisting of David “Campa” Benjamin Singer-Vine, a songwriter and vocalist and Niles “Cyrano” Hollowell-Dhar, a songwriter, vocalist, and producer. The duo started out as an independent group, during their years at...

 (Far East Movement
Far east movement
Far East Movement is an Asian American electro hop quartet based in Los Angeles. The group formed in 2003 and consists of Kev Nish , Prohgress , J-Splif , and DJ Virman...

), L.P. (signed to RedOne
RedOne
Nadir Khayat , known by the stage name RedOne, is a Moroccan producer and songwriter. Renowned for co-producing hit singles such as "Just Dance", "Poker Face", "LoveGame", "Bad Romance", "Alejandro" and "Judas", he is attributed by some as the key to Lady Gaga's success...

), Aqua
Aqua (producer)
Nicholas McCarrell , otherwise known as Aqua, is an American record producer and composer of film and television scores. As a record producer, he has most notably worked with Roc-a-fella Records artists Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Beanie Sigel...

 (Rock-a-fella Records/Jay-Z
Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter , better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2010...

) and Colin Hartel.

Live performances

D'Amato has played as a resident and host at the Viper Room
Viper Room
The Viper Room is a nightclub located on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California. It was opened in 1993 and was partly owned by actor Johnny Depp until 2004. The club became known for being a hangout of Hollywood elite, and was the site where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on...

 in Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, the Key Club, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Rio Hote Las Vegasl, Air Conditioned Lounge Venice, CA, Fubar Hollywood, The Roxy Hollywood, Hard Rock Hotel, Malibu Inn, Mood, SXSW (Austin, Texas), Palm Hotel and Casino (Vegas), Magic (Vegas), Coachella (Palm Springs, CA), and Hyde.

Personal life

Lisa was born in Panorama City California. She was raised all over Southern California but claims to be a Hollywood girl. Her parents divorced when she was 7 which resulted in her mom gaining custody. She describes her upbringing to be nothing short of tragically abusive. On Celeb Rehab with Dr. Drew she disclosed that she has been on her own since a very early age and had triple jobs to support herself including modeling, pounding the pavement in Hollywood from acting jobs in commercials, movie roles, and modeling assignments as well as working at Pep Boys to Jamba Juice to waiting tables.

D'Amato dated British singer Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

 in October 2006 after being hooked up by a mutual friend in Hollywood.

TV appearances

  • "E! Entertainment" "Married To Rock
    Married to Rock
    Married to Rock is an American reality television series broadcast on the E! cable television network. The show is produced by Bunim-Murray Productions.-Synopsis:The series focuses on the lives of the spouses of four rock musicians...

    "- Wild Wedding Episode as herself
  • Style Network
    Style Network
    The Style Network is an American cable television network based in Los Angeles.Owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of General Electric and Comcast, its sister channels include E! Entertainment Television, USA Network, Syfy, G4, Golf Channel, and Versus, among others.-Network Overview:Style's...

     Tacky House- Tacky Castle Episode as herself
  • The Oxygen Network
    Oxygen (TV channel)
    Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...

     ANTM Obsessed as herself
  • TMZ as herself
  • MTV
    MTV
    MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

     Cribs
    MTV Cribs
    MTV Cribs and CMT Cribs, depending on which channel it airs, is a franchise reality television program that originated on the MTV Networks' MTV. It later aired on its CMT channel that features tours of the houses and mansions of celebrities. The first show aired September 2000...

     as herself (with Cisco Adler and Shwayze)
  • BUZZIN'
    Buzzin'
    "Buzzin" is the first single by alternative hip hop artist Shwayze. The song peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 47 on the Pop 100. There are remixes DJ Skeet Skeet & Cory Nitta which features Wale, will.i.am, Villains, AC Slater, The Knocks, The Rondo Brothers, Classixx, and...

     on MTV as herself (with Cisco Adler and Shwayze)
  • The Tyra Banks Show
    The Tyra Banks Show
    The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:...

     (2005) as herself
  • America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
    America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
    America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6 premiered on March 8, 2006, which would be the last cycle to air on UPN before merging with the The WB to create the The CW...

     as herself (guest)
  • America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5
    America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5
    America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5 was the fifth cycle of America's Next Top Model. The judging panel ensemble was altered - Janice Dickinson was replaced by one of the most recognizable models of the 1960s, Twiggy, and Nolé Marin was replaced by runway coach J. Alexander...

     as herself (contestant)
  • Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
    Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
    Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew is a reality television show airing on the cable network VH1 that chronicles a group of celebrities as they are treated for alcohol and drug addiction by Dr. Drew Pinsky and his staff at the Pasadena Recovery Center in Pasadena, California. The first season premiered...

     Season 3 as herself
  • Pit Boss Rad Girls as herself

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