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Lisa
D'Amato
 |
| Birth name |
Lisa Marie D'Amato |
| Other name(s) |
La Puchinetta, Lisa D., Miss
October |
| Place of birth |
Los Angeles,
California, U.S. |
| Height |
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Hair color |
Light Brown |
| Eye color |
Green |
| Measurements |
34B-25-34 (US); 86.5-63.5-86.5 (EU)[1] |
| Dress size |
4 (US); 34 (EU)[1] |
| Shoe size |
9 (US); 41 (EU)[1] |
| Agency |
L.A. Models
L.A. Talent |
| Website |
http://www.lisadamato.com |
Lisa Marie D'Amato is an American recording artist, fashion model and television personality from Los Angeles, California.[2]
She got her start in the public arena as a participant on the 5th cycle of the UPN reality TV series America's Next Top
Model.
Music
career
D'Amato has pursued a career in music and has made a transition
from modeling to performing, particularly in the rap, electro rap and hip-hop 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 (Whitestarr, Shwayze, Dirt Nasty, Mickey Avalon).
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 (TV Series).
Debut
Album
Her debut album called "La Puchinetta" was released in January
2010. The collaborators include DJ Lethal(House of Pain, Everlast), 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, Hyper Crush, 3OH!3, Shwayze, Dirt Nasty, Andre
Legacy, and Mickey
Avalon, Ultraviolet Sound, Electric Valentine, and
Boomkat.
Live
Performances
D'Amato has played as a resident and host at the Viper Room in Hollywood, California, the Key Club, MGM Grand Hotel
and Casino, Hard Rock Hotel, Malibu Inn, Mood, SXSW (Austin,
Texas), Palm Hotel and Casino (Vegas), Magic (Vegas), Coachella
(Palm Springs, CA), and Hyde.
Management
In 2008, D'Amato signed with manager Brendan Vaughn, who had
previously been affiliated with U2, MGM and Courtney Love.
Modeling
career
Early Work
Modeling
Lisa D'Amato has been modeling since the age of 12, a fact that
went unmentioned on America's Next Top Model,
starring in advertisements for companies such as: XOXO, Barneys New York, Mervyn's, Teen Magazine, Sassy, YM, Seventeen, Guess, Flojos, Surfer Magazine, Dragonfly. She has
travelled around the world doing runway shows and print for
Barney's New York, XOXO, Guess, Jared Gold, Devon Becke's, Levi's, H&M, Diane Von Furstenberg, 2BeFree, Clementyne,
Sebastian's International, Coca-Cola's Bon Voyage campaign, Q101 (a local radio station in Chicago, Illinois), Target, and The Gap's "Mellow Yellow" campaign.
After top model, 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, Clementyne, DaftBird, Swindle
Magazine (where she had a 6 page editorial and write-up),
Lemonade Magazine (where she had a 6 page spread and write-up).[3] She has
also modeled for Shoshanna
Lonstein,[4]
DaftBird,[5] Ford Fusion,
Clementyne, Lip Service, Elle Girl Magazine, Lemonade magazine, Lilian
Kha, and Permission Magazine where she appeared on the cover of its
October 2006 issue.[6] Her
runway shows include Jared
Gold, 2BeFree, Alice & Olivia's Fall 2006 collection and Jared Gold's Caspian
Runway Show.[7] D'Amato
has also appeared in two Old
Navy commercials and on Ripe
TV.
Reality
TV
America's Next Top
Model
D'Amato claims to have been dared to send in an audition tape to
America's Next Top Model
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 was the front runner of her season. D'Amato
was portrayed as the girl with the most outrageous personality and
the best model when it came to the photoshoots. She 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 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.[8]
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 your
[sic] better off just
walking into an agency rather than audition for America's Next Top Model. The
show is a joke and is really only about drama. 'Shocker!'."[9]
Other
D'Amato won an award from "The Reality Remix Awards" for
"Favorite Altered State".[10] She
was recently voted as one of the most memorable contestants by AOL Entertainment.[11] and
as the tenth biggest villain in reality TV by TV Guide. [12].
D'Amato will appear on the newest season of Celebrity Rehab.[13]
Personal
life
D'Amato dated British singer Robbie Williams in October 2006 after
being hooked up by a mutual friend in Hollywood.[14]
TV
appearances
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