Lisa Marie Presley | Link Me (New)

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250px-lisa_marie_presley_at_car_race.jpgLisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. She is the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.

Contents
1 Presley heritage
2 Personal life
2.1 Marriages and divorces
3 Music career
4 Cultural references - facts
5 Charities
6 Discography
6.1 Albums
6.2 Singles
7 References
8 External links
 
Presley heritage
As Elvis’ only child, Lisa Marie eventually inherited his estate at the age of 30. In August 2006, she sold 85 percent of the estate’s business holdings to CKX, Inc., excluding Graceland itself and the property within it.
Personal life
Presley has been involved in a number of high profile relationships, including marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Marriages and divorces
Marriage: Danny Keough, October 3, 1988
Notes: They had two children together, Danielle Riley, born May 29, 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born October 21, 1992
Divorce: Lisa Marie divorced Keough on grounds of irreconciliable differences in 1994, but they still remain close friends.
Marriage: Michael Jackson, May 26, 1994, in the Dominican Republic.
Divorce: The two divorced after 21 months on January 18, 1996 on grounds of irreconcilable differences.
Notes: In the Divorce papers, Presley stated she had not seen Jackson the last six months of their marriage.
Marriage: Nicolas Cage, August 10, 2002, in Los Angeles
Divorce: Cage filed for divorce after just three months in November 2002 on grounds of irreconcilable differences.
Marriage: Michael Lockwood, January 22, 2006, in Kyoto, Japan
Notes: Lockwood is her guitarist and music producer. Keough served as best man at the couple’s wedding.
Engagement: In 2000 she was engaged to rocker John Oszajca.

Music career
Lisa Marie is a close friend of her father’s ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson’s record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer. Her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, reached # 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold. To promote it she presented a concert in the UK, something that her father never did. Presley released her second album, Now What, in 2005 and it reached # 9 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold in November 2005. Unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Both albums as of 2007 have been certified Platinum. In August 2007, the single In the Ghetto was released. Elvis Presley originally released the single in 1969. In the new version, Lisa Marie duets with her father. The video that was simultaneously released with the single reached number one on the iTunes video sales in the week of its release.
Cultural references - facts
 
Elvis’ plane named after his daughterHer father, who called her Injun, Yisa, and Buttonhead, named one of his private aircraft, a converted CONVAIR 880 jet (original passenger capacity, 100), after her. The airplane “Lisa Marie” is currently on exhibit at the Graceland mansion museum of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. The rock band Queen also used this for a flight, and Lisa gave Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury a scarf which belonged to her father.
She recently stated, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, that she is 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) tall.[1]
She has a half brother, Navarone Garibaldi (b. 1 March 1987), from her mother’s 22-year (ended in April 2006) relationship with Marco Garibaldi.
She attended the 10th grade at an alternative boarding school in Ojai, California, called Happy Valley School.
On her tenth birthday (1978), her mother Priscilla Presley took her to see actor John Travolta (then 24 years old); Lisa had a huge crush on him. Today, they remain friends and fellow scientologists.

Charities
Lisa Marie Presley supports several charities, including:

Presley Place, which combats homelessness in Memphis.
CCHR, a Scientology-connected group that opposes psychiatry and psychiatrists.
LEAP (Literacy, Education and Abilities Program), a Scientology-connected group affiliated with Applied Scholastics that promotes L. Ron Hubbard’s studying techniques.

Discography

Albums
2003 To Whom It May Concern #5 U.S., #41 UK
2005 Now What #9 U.S.
2008 [To Be Announced]

Singles
2003 “Lights Out” #16 UK, #34 U.S. CHR/Pop Radio[2]
2003 “Sinking In”
2005 “Dirty Laundry” #36 Adult Contemporary
2005 “Idiot”
2007 “In The Ghetto” (with Elvis Presley)[3] #1 iTunes
“In The Ghetto” became available for purchase on iTunes (both song and video) on August 17, 2007. It premiered on August 16, at the 30th Anniversary Elvis Presley Tribute Concert in Memphis.

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