Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and the Only Child of Elvis, Dead at 54



By Charisma Madarang

Lisa Marie Presley, the vocalist whose blues-tinged dependable carried passim 3 albums and champion babe of Elvis Presley, died connected Thursday connected the property of 54.

“It is with a dense coronary bosom that I indispensable stock the devastating accusation that my beauteous girl Lisa Marie has near us,” her mom, Priscilla Presley, stated successful a declaration, accordant with The Associated Press. “She was the astir passionate, sturdy and loving woman I person ever recognized.”

The connection came simply hours aft her ma had showed she go rushed to a vicinity sanatorium successful beforehand Thursday. Presley had suffered cardiac arrest astatine her home successful Calabasas, the L.A. County Fire Dept. Showed to Rolling Stone. Just days earlier the incident, Presley attended the Golden Globes alongside her mother, Priscilla, wherein Austin Butler, who portrayed Elvis wrong the biopic astir the musician, go offered the Golden Globe for Best Actor successful a Motion Picture – Drama. “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I emotion you forever,” Butler stated astatine immoderate signifier successful his acceptance speech.

Born connected Feb. 1, 1968 successful Memphis, Tennessee, 9 months aft Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding ceremony, Lisa Marie turned into raised wrong the spot till she was 4 and moved to Los Angeles on with her ma pursuing her dada and mom’ divorcement successful 1973. As the girl of 1 of the astir celebrated artists successful history, Presley coagulated her precise ain vocation successful tune. She released 3 albums: 2003’s To Whom It May Concern, which became gold-licensed for implicit 500,000 gadgets bought wrong the United States, 2005’s So What, and 2012’s Storm & Grace. Throughout her paintings she paid homage to a antheral whose a benignant and code for each clip echoed passim the American soundscape.

On her last album, Storm and Grace, the earthy agreed states of america, folks and blues postulation embraced her Southern roots and ain household call. The 12 months it became launched, she spoke with Rolling Stone astir locating her roots arsenic she were fixed older. “I’m continually feeling a portion similar I privation to combat and kick, I don’t recognize why. But each I ended up doing successful the past done looking to bash thing other changed into stepping and tripping connected my ain feet,” she informed Rolling Stone. “It was usually against myself and hurting myself, though I go reasoning I go combating antithetic people. I had to acquisition those stages, I did. So then, sure, I’m present not doing that anymore.”

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In 1988, she joined instrumentalist Danny Keough. The brace separated aft six years and had youngsters, which includes the histrion Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, who died by mode of termination successful 2020 connected the property of 27. In an effort for People in August 2022, she dispersed retired astir feeling “destroyed” pursuing the nonaccomplishment of beingness of her lad Benjamin. “My and my 3 daughters’ lives arsenic we knew it were perfectly detonated and destroyed by utilizing his dying. We unrecorded successful this every. Single. Day,” she wrote.

She go joined to Michael Jackson from 1994 to 1996. Often billed arsenic the girl of the king of stone n’ rotation who joined the king of pop, their dating was mired successful tabloids and media attention. Two years aft her matrimony with Jackson ended, Lisa Marie joined histrion Nicholas Cage at the 25th day of Elvis’ nonaccomplishment of beingness each done a ceremonial successful Hawaii. Less than 4 months aft their wedding ceremony, the brace announced they had been separating.

Her 4th matrimony go to Michael Lockwood, with whom she had duplicate daughters, Finley Lockwood and Harper Lockwood. They divorced successful 2021.

Her father’s superb bequest go a dependable a portion of her existence. In a 2003 interrogation with Rolling Stone following the merchandise of her archetypal album, To Whom It May Concern, Presley remembered hiding distant arsenic a babe and listening to tune oregon making a opus to herself successful beforehand of the replicate. “My dada would seizure me,” she stated. “I’m definite helium got a footwear retired of it. He’d enactment maine up connected the espresso array successful the beforehand of each of america and marque maine sing.”