Hannigan was born on 12 February 1981,and comes from Kilcloon in County Meath. She was "quiet and bookish", attending primary school at Scoil Oilibhear Naofa in Kilcloon where she first sang as a six-year-old fairy on top of a Christmas tree in her school play. She developed her singing through other avenues such as providing the backing vocals to her mother's front seat Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone when she was being driven to West Cork on summer holidays. She also sang and danced to the first tape she bought, Michael Jackson's "Bad". Hannigan later attended secondary school at The King's Hospital in Palmerstown and, at the age of eighteen, became a student of art history at Trinity College, Dublin. She met Damien Rice in Whelan's, a pub that is popular with up and coming musicians, during her first week of college. She bumped into him a few times after that. He told her that he was a musician looking for a female backing singer and Lisa timidly told him that she was a singer.
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