Lisa Loeb

If she had never made another record, Lisa Loeb would still go down in the record books as the first unsigned artist to top the American charts, as her meteoric single "Stay (I Missed You)" -- from the soundtrack to 1994's Reality Bites -- spent three weeks at number one soon after the film's release. "Stay" earned Loeb an audience practically overnight, but it was her subsequent body of work that revealed the full extent of her talent. As a songwriter, Loeb offered a literate, artful look at the nature of human relationships, set to melodies that ran from thoughtful indie fol...