Charisse Landise

About Charisse Landise

If I think I'm being honest, then I try to be even a little more honest. Greater and greater honesty is my main goal in life and music. Like a shaman, I don't know how things are supposed.. If I think I am being honest, then I try to be even a little more honest. Greater and greater honesty is my main goal in life and music. Like a shaman, I do not know the way things are "supposed" to be.
Being extremely sensitive is my gift or curse depending on how you look at it.
I feel almost everything times a hundred.
I write songs to express what is beyond words, and that's a lot.
Loss and hardship is the sand that makes the pearl.
Music, the healing arts, and lovemaking, are the only forms of communication that make any kind of sense to me. Words feel clonky and abrasive most of the time:)

I grew up in Chicago with the music scene in the early 70's. It was a thrilling time to be alive. I loved every minute of it. I was in love with life. I hitch-hiked to the Auditorium, Arie Crown, Aragon, Kinetic Playground to see all the great acts, like the Kinks, King Crimson, Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Iggy Pop. Then when I moved to New York City I practically lived at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. Devo played their first show at Max's. Great artists came to hear great artists, so Bowie was there. Talking Heads, The Ramones, N. Y.