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Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, exactly nine months after her parents married. The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she pursued a career as a recording artist and actor. She released her debut album To Whom It May Concern in 2003, married four times, and died on January 12, 2023 from intestinal obstruction.
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Lisa Marie Presley — early life, career, personal life, and legacy.
She was born on February 1, 1968, at 5:01 PM EST, nine months to the day after her parents married. Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee as the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she attended the John Thomas Dye School and later Besant Hill School. Her father’s iconic status and the Presley lip curl she inherited shaped her public identity from childhood. On her 10th birthday, her mother took her to visit John Travolta, fulfilling a childhood crush.
Lisa Marie Presley launched her music career with her debut album To Whom It May Concern on Capitol Records on April 8, 2003. The album included 11 tracks, some co-written with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, and the single Lights Out had a music video. She appeared on TV shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and performed live at Bush Hall in London on October 4, 2012. Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam recognized her charitable efforts on June 24, 2011, proclaiming a day of recognition.
She married four times: to Danny Keough from 1988 to 1994, to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996, to Nicolas Cage from 2002 to 2004, and to Michael Lockwood from 2006 to 2021. She had four children: Riley Keough born 1989, Benjamin Keough 1992–2020, and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood born 2008. Despite divorcing Danny Keough, she remained close friends with him; he was with her when she died. She also had a half-brother Navarone Garibaldi.
Lisa Marie Presley carved her own path in music while also inheriting Elvis Presley’s legacy. Her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, was a bestseller in October 2024. She inherited her father’s iconic lip curl and earned the nickname The Princess of Rock Roll. Tennessee and New Orleans officials recognized her charitable works in 2011. She is honored through her music and family’s efforts.
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It Would Be Come and Meet Me Here and When I Turned up There Would Be Press Everywhere on the Suggestion That Michael Jackson Used Their Relationship for Promotion.
I Don’t Deal Well with Admiration If It’s for Something I Haven’t Done Other Than Exist.
I’ll Say It Loud and Say It Proud. I’m Completely Insane.
I’m Trying to Have My Own Thing, and I Don’t Know If It’s Even Possible. I Didn’t Realize so Many People Actually Think I’m Trying to Be Like My Dad. I Read Comments Like ‘She’s No Elvis.’ I’m Not Trying to Be. I Never Set Out to Be.
I’m Like a Lion I Roar. If Someone Betrays Me, I Won’t Be a Victim. I Don’t Sulk, I Get Angry. I Go Immediately into Retaliation. but It Always Comes from Insecurity or Pain.
You Want to Know the Best Thing and the Worst Thing About Me? I See Things as They Really Are. People Really Bullshit Themselves. I Don’t Like Any Filter or Rainbows or Fluff. and Sometimes It Is a Blessing. and Sometimes It Makes Me the Biggest Fucking Pain in the Ass Ever. Because People Don’t Want to See That.
I’m More of a Tomboy Than Anything and Then You See Your Name on These Top 50 Most Beautiful People Lists and You’re Like, ‘What?’
It’s Hard for Me to Be Happy Because I’m Always Worried About Something Going Awry, or What Could Happen to Screw It Up. It’s Hard for Me to Sit and Look Around, Going, ‘Ah, I’m Really Happy.’ I’m Not That Kind of Person.
I Was Very Angry but Didn’t Know Here It Was Coming From. Now I Can Tell You That I Was Surrounded 24/7 by People That Were Not Well Intended. It Also Obscured My Perception and Spun a Web Around Me and Insulated Me to a Degree. Everything Went Out from Under Me and I Had to Start from Ground Zero…it Was Devastating at the Time but I Had to Go Through a Whole Process of Rediscovering Everything Again Starting with Me.
I Think People Think I’m Harder and More Arrogant and Cocky Than I Am Because I Know How to Put on a Front, but It’s Nothing Like Who I Am Inside. I Think People Reveal Themselves in Their Opposites. to Be Honest, I’m Really Overly, Scarily Sensitive, and I Feel Way Too Much, so I Have to Have Something to Hide Under.
I Think That Art Can Break Through Anything If It’s Done with Someone’s Heart and Soul.
I’ve Been Through so Much in My Life. I’ve Seen so Much. I Know How Fast Things Can Change. I Know Someone Can Be Here One Minute and Gone the Next. I Know How Fast Life Can Shift Direction and Take the Ground Out from Underneath You.
I Never Write from a Happy Place. It’s Always a Beautiful Sadness or Pain or Hurt or Betrayal.
For Many Years I Was Surrounded by People Who I Thought Were Good People, Confidantes and Friends, but There Was a Whole Sinister Scene to Control Me and I Didn’t Really Know or See That This Was Happening. I Was in a Hornet’s Nest 24/7 and Didn’t Know It for Years. People That I Trusted for Years Turned Out to Be Not Good.
I’ve Always Been Attracted to People Who Push the Envelope or Who Are Powerful.
I Don’t Know That I Even Have a Good Voice to Be Honest with You. What I Can Do Is I Can Emote Really Well. My Voice Has Got Its Own Thing, It’s Either Gonna Hit You Right or It’s Not Gonna Hit You Right. I Have an Ability to Emote and It’s Not Necessarily Technically a Good Voice. I Realized I Could Do That and Be Emotional and Use My Voice to Deliver My Emotions in Whichever Way I Needed To.
Little-known facts about Lisa Marie Presley — origins, oddities, and behind-the-scenes details from a public life.
Her birth came exactly nine months after her parents married.
On her 10th birthday, her mother took her to visit John Travolta as she had a crush on him at the time. They remained good friends until her death.
Despite being divorced from him, Lisa Marie often described Danny Keough as her best friend. She was also on good terms with Nicolas Cage until her death.
Lisa Marie married Nicolas Cage in an intimate Oceanside ceremony on the huge island of Hawaii at 6:30 PM on August 10, 2002, attended by close friends and family including her mother Priscilla Presley.
She called her daughter Danielle by her middle name Riley. Highly resembling her mother, Riley is now a model having worked for Dolce and Gabbana and plays the piano.
She had four children: daughter Riley Keough born May 29, 1989 and son Benjamin Keough October 21, 1992 – July 12, 2020 with first ex-husband Danny Keough, and daughters Finley Lockwood and Harper Lockwood born October 7, 2008 with fourth ex-husband Michael Lockwood.
She married musician/producer Michael Lockwood on January 22, 2006 in a traditional Japanese ceremony in Kyoto, Japan. Her mother Priscilla Presley walked her down the aisle. The best man was her ex-husband Danny Keough. Her daughter Riley Keough was the maid of honor and her son Benjamin Keough was a groomsman.
She became engaged to singer John Oszajca over Christmas on December 25, 1999 but called the engagement off by spring between March 2, 2001 and May 3, 2001.
Jerry Schilling managed her while she was in her late teens/early twenties. She was offered something with Vanilla Ice, which she turned down immediately.
Lisa Marie Presley passed away from cardiac arrest on January 12, 2023, only three weeks before her 55th birthday on February 1, 2023. She last appeared at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, which she attended with family friend Jerry Schilling on January 10, 2023.
She inherited the Presley lip curl, which her father had.
She released her debut album on Capitol Records on April 8, 2003. It was titled To Whom It May Concern and contains 11 tracks some co-written with The Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan frontman Billy Corgan. The first single and music video was for the song Lights Out.
Her first husband Danny Keough is a musician who was a member of her band in 2004. Keough tried to save Presley’s life the day she died and was with Presley when she passed away. Presley and Keough were best friends and their daughter Riley Keough called them soul mates.
Her mother Priscilla Presley implied in a 1986 People magazine article that she was planning for college when she actually dropped out of high school the year before.
She made sure her US tours took place during the summer so that her son, daughter and even sometimes her half-brother Navarone Garibaldi Garcia could travel with her. The father of her children, Danny Keough, used to home-tutor Riley and Benjamin and hold the fort back home when she was promoting her first album in Europe and Japan.
She was good friends with shock rocker Marilyn Manson and friends with singer Pink.
She separated from fourth husband Michael Lockwood on June 13, 2016. The same month, Lisa Marie secretly went to rehab and her mother Priscilla Presley was awarded custody of the couple’s twin girls.
She claimed to be a good vocal mimic, able to alter her speaking and singing voices to whatever octave desired, which leads to her singing voice sounding audibly different on various songs.
Her children provided vocal support in the chorus on the track entitled To Whom It May Concern on her first album.
She was granddaughter of Vernon Presley, Gladys Presley and Ann Beaulieu. Step-granddaughter of Paul Beaulieu, who gave her away at her third wedding on August 10, 2002.
Even though her ex-stepuncles, the Stanley brothers, regularly contribute to documentaries about the Presley family, both Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley issued a statement in the 1990s claiming they have not had any contact with two of the boys David and Billy for years.
On June 24, 2011, Governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam officially honored her, proclaiming a day of recognition for her charitable efforts. Two days later, New Orleans Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu issued a Certificate of Proclamation for her dedication and contributions to the city.
She married Michael Jackson twenty days after she divorced her first husband Danny Keough.
Her ancestry includes German, Norwegian, English, Scottish, some French, Irish, Swiss-German, remote Dutch and Danish, and possibly Native American.
In case she had been a boy, her parents would have named her John Barron.
She performed her first live UK concert at Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush in London on October 4, 2012 with Ed Harcourt as her supporting act. Her husband Michael Lockwood was playing in the band.
Posthumously she became a bestselling author upon the release of her memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which was completed with the help of daughter Riley Keough.
She began her memoir in 2016. Work halted when her son Benjamin died in 2020. She resumed work and asked daughter Riley Keough for help in December 2022. Presley died suddenly in January 2023. Keough finished the book for her mother, and it was released in October 2024.
She was former stepmother of Nicolas Cage’s son Weston Cage.
She was a guest at Chaz Bono’s fifth birthday party.
She was former sister-in-law of Marc Coppola and Christopher Coppola.
She was born at 5:01 PM EST.
She was former daughter-in-law of film executive and university educator August Coppola.
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