From the outset, Lissy Trullie might look like just your average
hipper-than-thou hipster. She's certainly got the credentials—including
frequent DJ gigs at the Beatrice Inn. But hear her sing and strum the
guitar and what you'll really find is a folksy, bluesy, doe-eyed soul
sister. "I gave birth to a guitar when I was four years old. It was
strange, especially for a four-year-old, but I thought I should probably
give it a go because of the random circumstances," she jokes. Trullie
only started performing with her band a year and a half ago and has
already graced stages everywhere from traditional rock haunts like
Mercury Lounge to celebrity mainstays like Bungalow 8. And whether
singing original songs from her new EP (out this spring), or belting out
a cover of Amy Winehouse’s "Rehab," Trullie has become the rocker du
jour for fashionistas and twenty-somethings all over town. Still, the
Washington, D.C., native would judge her own success a little
differently: "I like to test out songs on my twelve-year-old cousins and
my seventy-year-old grandparents. If they like them, then I'm
super-psyched. I'm proud when people outside my age or world are into my
music. That's when I can feel like I've actually done
something."
Kate Bernstein
Lissy wears a blazer by Pierre Cardin, pants by Cacharel and hat by Chanel. Fragrance: CKIN2U.
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