Lisa Loeb

Lisa Loeb grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and started playing guitar as a teenager. She was living in New York City when her song 'Stay (I Missed You)' appeared in the 1994 film Reality Bites, which gave her a sudden national audience. That track wasn't on her debut album, Tails, which came out the following year and included songs like 'Fools Like Me' and 'Days Were Different.'

Her music has mostly been acoustic pop with straightforward melodies and lyrics that feel conversational. She put out albums fairly regularly through the 1990s and 2000s, including Firecracker in 1997 and Cake and Pie in 2002. Later songs like 'Hand-Me-Downs' and 'Would You Wander' kept to that same direct, melodic style.

Loeb has worked with other musicians occasionally, sometimes performing with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a duo they called Lisa and Joseph. She also appeared on stage with Paul Simon and Carly Simon at different points. Most of her catalog stays in that singer-songwriter lane she established early on, built around her voice and acoustic guitar.