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While growing up amid small town life, Lilah began searching for a sense of identity and community. In high school her persona was affected by the fashions and music of the gothic/punk scene. Inside school she was a cheerleader and student council member, but outside, a skate boarding party girl. In college she adopted the culture of the Dead Heads. During that time she followed the Dead across the U.S., living on the road while exploring the 1990's version of the 60's counterculture lifestyle. Finding that in the 90's, as in the 60's, while the counterculture people paid lip service to high ideals, most were lost and flawed souls trying to find security in a world of drugs, free love, and a hierarchy built upon 'spiritual powers' based on occult beliefs. Lilah attended the Penn State University where she studied pottery, modern and African dance, and filmmaking. As a film student she wrote and directed two short films: Picture Perfect, and the award winning Maple Street. It was in the Penn State film department that Lilah first met Caeser Pink and other members of the Imperial Orgy. When the Orgy's first background singers quit after the band was protested against by local church organizations, Lilah joined the group as a full time member. She performed locally with the Imperial Orgy for a few raucous months before moving with them to New York City. The Imperial Orgy provided Lilah with a medium to find her own identity without depending on the guise of cliques and cult cosmetics. The musical complexity and performance rigors demanded by the Orgy allowed her to develop the level of discipline and self control needed to become a serious artist and musician. Lilah now resides in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, New York. After traveling across Europe and the Carribean, and having tasted the neo-sophistication of the New York art scene, she found that the greatest truth of her self identity lies not in wealth, celebrity, or pretensions of artistic bohemianism, but in the echoes of nature from her own past. The one constant which always stayed with her through her many changes were the simple truths of those forests, streams, and an appreciation of family and friends from her childhood. She hopes that those values will keep her grounded as the Imperial Orgy continues to grow as a force on the American music scene. When not performing with the Orgy, Lilah can usually be found behind the potter's wheel. Her work in that medium is a mixture of organic futurism and sensual eroticism, simultaneously recalling the forms of Dr. Seuss and a bold anatomical realism. Onstage with the Orgy, Lilah exudes a natural vivaciousness. Projecting an image that is both strong and feminine, an image which men find provocative and exciting, and women find fun and liberating. Free spirited, adventurous, and radiating positivity, Lilah embodies the qualities of the Imperial Orgy |
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| Favorite Books - The Brother's Karamazov, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Rosy Crucifixion, The Power of Myth, Winter's Tale |
| Favorite Movies - Sling Blade, The English Patient, La Femme Nikita, Blue, Naked, Knife in Water, The Sacrifice, Suburbia, Star Trek (Next Generation)-TV Series, Stella |
| Favorite Music - Muddy Waters, The Cure, David Bowie, P.J. Harvey, Bjork, R.E.M., Prince, Patti Smith, Bob Marley, Bad Brains, Jane's Addiction, Beck, Nina Simone, Bob Marley |
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