Lisa Davies Promotions

About Lisa Davies

POP…ROCK…SINGER/SONGWRITER…FOLK…CLASSICAL...COUNTRY…AMERICANA…BLUES…JAZZ

LISA DAVIES founded Caravela Music Ltd and Lisa Davies Promotions in 1990. She has worked on the front line in the music industry for over 40 years as a Radio and TV promotions/PR executive.

“Music is in my blood. My grandfather sang and regularly performed in musical theatre shows in London’s West End. He later became a song plugger, working for the music publishing houses of Tin Pan Alley in the late 1920’s/early 1930’s. My father was a professional jazz drummer until WW2 unfortunately changed his career path. I attended drama school and have enjoyed singing and playing guitar on a semi-pro level since I was 11 and continue to keep my hand in. I’ve lived and breathed the music business since I left school, aged 16, and have been a ‘front line’ TV and Radio plugger/PR since the age of 18. This job was made for me and I enjoy every minute of it!”

- Lisa Davies

 

In her role as Promotions Manager in the 1980s for the then CBS label, Epic, Lisa masterminded and executed hugely successful promotions album campaigns for artists such as Michael Jackson namely ‘Thriller’ and ’ Bad’, The Jacksons, Abba, Wham!, Meat Loaf, George Michael, Sade, Men At Work, Survivor, Altered Images, Don Henley plus 23 consecutive Top 10 hits by Shakin’ Stevens.

Her work contributed to Shaky becoming the best-selling singles artist of the 1980s. Prior to that, Lisa was Promotions Manager at Magnet Records, where she promoted artists such as Chris Rea, The Darts, Alvin Stardust, Matchbox and Bad Manners.

After taking a short break to start her family in the late 1980s, Lisa returned to Sony (as CBS had by then become) as a freelance PR, working across most of the company’s labels, promoting their major pop, rock and classical CD releases, videos and DVDs, involving collaborating again with her previous Epic artists.

In early 1990, due to a high demand for her PR services, Lisa set up her own company, Lisa Davies Promotions. She rapidly found herself being hired by all the majors and many indie labels too, working on their priority releases across all genres.

In 1999, following high recommendation from Hank Marvin and The Shadows’ management, Lisa was introduced to the legendary Sir Cliff Richard. Her first project for Sir Cliff was ‘The Millennium Prayer’. The release went to No. 1, sold 1.4 million copies, and became the biggest selling single by a British artist that year. Cliff was so impressed with her work and as a result marked the start of a massively successful 2+ decades of handling the promotion of Sir Cliff’s singles, albums, DVDs, books, and tours. Lisa forged a wonderful close working relationship with Sir Cliff, and he remains one of her all-time cherished artists and friends. 

Lisa is also extremely privileged to have worked with a plethora of other global star clients, including Chris de Burgh  (since 1998) and Mark Knopfler (since his global Top 3 hit album ‘Sailing to Philadelphia in 2000).

During the same period, Lisa also spearheaded the promotion of African Zulu group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, famous for their collaboration with Paul Simon on his Graceland album and the Heinz Beans ad!  Her first album project with the group sold a million copies. One of the group’s promo tours Lisa promoted happened to coincide with the late Nelson Mandela’s visit to London.  Her BBC TV/David Frost booking resulted in him also agreeing to appear on the programme. The group was the great man’s favourite artist and Mr Mandela famously danced enthusiastically to their live on-air performance in the studio with them! The interview became an iconic piece of TV and was beamed across the world. 

2020 was a year no one will forget and resulted in the cancellation of most of the company’s clients’ live work, which was devastating for all concerned.  However, it didn’t deter from keeping Lisa Davies Promotions exceptionally busy with many lockdown releases and other activities. As a result, the company delivered numerous sizeable and hugely successful media campaigns, including national news stories and blanket key media coverage from daytime TV shows such as BBC Breakfast, The One Show and Morning Live, ITV’s Good Morning Britain and This Morning, Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch and Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine Show and news programmes such as BBC TV/Songs of Praise, plus BBC News, ITN, Sky News, Channel 5 News.

Our radio broadcast areas of expertise include BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, 5Live, 6 Music, Classic FM, Bauer and Global networks, the BBC Local Network including BBC London, Boom Radio, Heritage Chart, plus other key independent radio, online stations, podcasts and specialist stations and programmes, covering 

Mainstream, Indie, Classical, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, Faith and Heritage etc.

7 years ago, Lisa Davies Promotions accepted the role of TV and Radio Promotions Consultants for Rock Choir, the world’s largest and most successful adult contemporary choir.  As part of the PR team, they continue to keep the company busy with their amazing high-profile media friendly campaigns, many of which are charity related. The company works on numerous amazing projects with Rock Choir, which has resulted in blanket news media coverage, plus performance bookings at BBC Proms in the Park (twice), BBC Children In Need, BBC TV Breakfast, BBC TV The One Show, BBC Comic Relief,  BBC Music Day, ITV  Good Morning Britain, ITV  Britain’s Got Talent, BBC Trust Me I’m A Doctor, ITV News At Ten, BBC National News, BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, Michael Ball, The Afternoon Show, Good Morning Sunday, Claudia Winkelman, & Sara Cox programmes plus many other major radio and TV appearances.

Lisa Davies Promotions’ work really is across the board and the company's artist roster remains diverse by choice. As well as the aforementioned projects, other clients include million-selling author Frederick Forsyth, Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, Right Said Fred, Jeff Wayne, KT Tunstall, Michelle McManus and Billy J Kramer,

The past few years have seen Lisa Davies Promotions deliver some huge chart successes, including Michael Armstong’s No.1 in the US Indie Music Singles Chart and No.15 on the Top 40 Artist Chart, both for 4 weeks, with his self-penned single, ‘Each Other’s Eyes’.

 

Royal and Charity Projects

Lisa Davies Promotions is honoured and privileged to continue to be the chosen promotions company for some incredible Royal and charity related projects.  These include Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth’s 90^th Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Anthems, her State Funeral, plus the Military Wives Choirs’ single for His Majesty, King Charles’ birthday in November 2024, which resulted in a private performance by the choir to His Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Additionally, the company’s work with The Diana Award charity for Rock Choir has resulted in some amazing opportunities for the choir members, most recently involving unprecedented access to Althorp, the Spencer family estate. The project culminated in extensive national media coverage.

 

 

Finally, an ongoing and important part of Lisa Davies Promotions’ commitment to the industry is to continually search for diverse talent and exciting projects, particularly new and developing music artists, working closely with them to build their media profile.