Lisa Marie Presley

Given her parentage (Elvis and Priscilla Presley) and brief marriages to pop icon Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage, Lisa Marie Presley may have been destined for a life as tabloid fodder, but she nonetheless carved out a serious music career of her own, issuing three albums in all, beginning with 2003's To Whom It May Concern. With its distinctively alluring, throaty vocals and solid, roots-injected contemporary pop craft -- including several co-writes with Glen Ballard -- the record reached the Top Five of the Billboard 200. Two years later, the grittier, Top Ten follow-up, Now What, offered songwriting collaborations with Linda Perry, while 2012's Storm & Grace leaned into blues and country influences with producer T-Bone Burnett. She resurfaced in 2018 on the reworked title track of Where No One Stands Alone, a compilation of her father's gospel songs, before her death in 2023.