Singer/songwriter and former Cobra Starship
keytarist Elisa Jordana grew up as Elisa Schwartz
in Old Bridge, NJ, listening to New Kids on
the Block and Whitney Houston, but it was
Debbie Gibson who inspired her to write her
own songs.
She wrote her first song at age seven; by
the time she was in her teens, she was writing
songs for her high school's musicals.
Schwartz moved to New York City at 17 and
continued to write and play around the city,
working with Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit group.
When she saw Cobra Starship leader Gabriel
Saporta at a club, she told him she should
be a part of his band, and so Schwartz became
the group's keytar player.
She left Cobra Starship in 2007 and focused
on her solo career, adopting the persona of
glamorous pop star Elisa Jordana.
Some of the songs she recorded at home on
her computer and posted on /MySpace drew attention
from labels, and she worked with artists including
JC Chasez and Secondhand Serenade, the Summer
Obsession's Lucien "Luke Skywalker" Walker,
and producer Colby O'Donis on more material.
Her debut album, Introducing Elisa Jordana,
arrived in 2008.
