Today I was circulating through the music channels on my TV cable and they played Lisa's hit "How Can I Ease the Pain." I remember liking this song at the time [[hard to believe it has been almost 25 years ago) and have often wondered what became of her.

As I listened to the song today, her range was even more amazing than I remembered and seemed comparable to Mariah Carey, who started out at roughly the same time frame as I recall. To my knowledge, Lisa only released the one album and had this one hit, whereas Mariah has had a remarkable career that is still going strong.

So how do we explain two artists with similar styles and voices having such widely different levels of success? Was it perhaps as simple as Lisa deciding that she didn't want it?