Lisa Stephanie Popeil is an American voice coach, singer, musician, voice researcher and lecturer.

The eldest daughter of S.J. Popeil (January 22, 1915- July 17, 1984) and Eloise Popeil (née Little; November 21, 1925-). S.J. was born in New York City and mother Eloise was born in Scottsboro, Alabama. S.J. was an inventor and manufacturer of such products of the Veg-O-Matic

Veg-O-Matic

Veg-O-Matic was the name of one of the first food-processing appliances to gain widespread use in the United States. It was invented by Samuel J...

, the Chop-O-Matic, the Slice-O-Matic, the Kitchen Magician, the Steamset and held over 200 patents. Her half-brother Ron Popeil

Ron Popeil

Ronald M. Popeil is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco...

 is also a well-known inventor and marketer, known for such products as the Ronco Food Dehydrator, the Popeil Pasta Machine, GLH (Great Looking Hair) and the Showtime Rotisserie.

In Chicago, Lisa Popeil attended Harris School, Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart Schools (Chicago, Illinois)

The Academy of the Sacred Heart for Girls, founded in 1876, and Hardey Preparatory for Boys, founded in 1935, serve children in Kindergarten through Eighth Grade.Sacred Heart is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools...

 and University of Chicago’s Lab School

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is a private, co-educational day school in Chicago, Illinois. It is affiliated with the University of Chicago...

. After moving to Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, south of downtown Santa Ana. The population was 85,186 at the 2010 census.The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings...

 in 1971 she graduated high school after her third year from Corona del Mar High School

Corona del Mar High School

Corona del Mar High School is a school located in the East Bluff neighborhood of Newport Beach, California, and belongs to the Newport Mesa Unified School District...

 in Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, California

Costa Mesa is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 109,960 at the 2010 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a primarily suburban and "edge" city with an economy based on retail, commerce, and light...

. In 1974 she attended Prescott College

Prescott College

Prescott College is a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona, founded in 1966. It is a non-profit organization which has an undergraduate body of roughly 800 students, and an average student to faculty ratio of 7:1 in on-campus classrooms...

 in Prescott, Arizona

Prescott, Arizona

Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in the late 1980s....

, focusing on Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, drawing on the work of early pioneers like Carl Rogers and the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology...

 then attended the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

 where she earned her BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 in General Music and an MFA

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 in Voice.

Popeil started piano lessons at age 4 and voice lessons at age 6, studying classical voice from age 7 through her college years. At age 11, she began writing pop songs, inspired by Joni Mitchell and Elton John and later developed an interest in studio recording and session singing.

In 1981, she performed in her underwear with Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and sang 'Lisa's Life Story', 'Dangerous Kitchen' and 'Teenage Prostitute'. The latter was included on Zappa's album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch is an album by Frank Zappa, released in May 1982 and digitally remastered in 1991. It features five tracks composed by Zappa, and one song, "Valley Girl", co-written with Moon Unit Zappa, his daughter, who provided the spoken monologue mocking some of...

 which featured Zappa's biggest-selling song 'Valley Girl'. An edited version of 'Lisa's Life Story' appeared on the album You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. It was released on October 23, 1992 under the label Rykodisc.-Disc one:#"The M.O.I...

 released in 1992. Beginning in 1983 to the present, Popeil has sung back-up vocals with "Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...

. In 1984, Popeil produced her self-titled album 'Lisa Popeil' which was chosen as a Billboard 'Top Album Pick'. That record featured Steve Vai

Steve Vai

Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....

 and Joe LoDuca as guest musicians. She appeared at a 1998 concert at the Getty Center

Getty Center

The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is a campus for cultural institutions founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The $1.3 billion center, which opened on December 16, 1997, is also well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles...

, performing in Erik Satie

Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...

's Socrate

Socrate

Socrate is a work for voice and piano by Erik Satie. First published in 1919 for voice and piano, in 1920 a different publisher reissued the piece "revised and corrected". A third version of the work exists, for small orchestra and voice, for which the manuscript has disappeared and which is...

.

Popeil began teaching voice at the age of 18 and eventually taught both pop and classical voice classes at the College of the Canyons

College of the Canyons

College of the Canyons is a public two-year community college that operates within the Santa Clarita Community College District. The college is located on of rolling, tree-dotted hills in the incorporated city of Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County, California. The college’s address is:...

 in Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, United States and the twenty-fourth largest city in the state of California. The 2010 US Census reported the city's population grew 16.7% from the year 2000 to 176,320 residents. It is located about northwest of downtown...

 from 1989-1999. In 1995, she released her Total Singer video/DVD program followed by the educational CD 'How to Speak Beautifully'. In reference to her father being a pitch

Sales pitch

In selling technique, a sales pitch is a line of talk that attempts to persuade someone or something, with a planned sales presentation strategy of a product or service designed to initiate and close a sale of the product or service....

man for gadgets, she says she is "The pitch woman of voice".

With a strong interest in voice research, Popeil began exploring the differences between vocal styles, in particular the physiological differences between belting and female classical voice production. Since 1999, she has experimented with video fluoroscopy, CT scans, MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , or magnetic resonance tomography is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures...

, high-speed imaging and video-stroboscopy. She presents frequently at international voice conferences in the US and in Europe.

In 2006, Popeil received the 'Career Achievement in Vocal Instruction' from the LA Music Awards. She has taught singing to the children of migrant workers as part of the Migrant Education Program, a program of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, and to students at Wayland Baptist University

Wayland Baptist University

Wayland Baptist University is private, coeducational Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas, U.S.A. Wayland Baptist has a total of fourteen campuses in four additional Texas cities, five other states, and the country of Kenya. On August 31, 1908, the university was chartered by the state of...

 competing for scholarship at the Music Achievement Awards.

Writing

• "Journal of Singing" - ('Multiplicity of Belting' and 'Differences Between Belting and Classical Voice Production')
• "Journal of Voice" - ('Analysis of Five Musical Theater Belting Substyles' with Drs. Johan Sundberg and Margareta Thalen)
• Oxford Handbook of Music Education contributor
• Oxford Handbook of Singing contributor
• Singer & Musician Magazine contributor
• L2PNet.com contributor
• The Modern Vocalist contributor
• 'But Wait! There's More]: The Irrestible Appeal and Spiel of Ronco and Popeil' by Tim Samuelson

Membership

• Scientific Advisory Board of Voice Foundation
• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
  American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
  The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists , promo and voice-over announcers and other...
  
  
• National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
  National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
  The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS, is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its...
  
  
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
• British Voice Association
• IberoAmericano Foundation of Voice & Speech
• Voice & Speech Trainers Association
• Pacific Voice & Speech Foundation

Appearances

• The Home & Family Show 2x (Family Channel)
• “Weird Al” Show - VH1
• Ron Popeil ‘Biography’- A&E TV
• LA Ink