Released on Lifetime, airing February 1st in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
Based on truths.
The story: 1982, Hell's Kitchen.
Lisa Velez is a 15-year-old living with her mother, abusive father, and older brother.
A year later, leaving the abuse behind forever, the small family moves to a different part of New York without their father.
A year later, leaving the abuse behind forever, the small family moves to a different part of New York without their father.
But it's now a much larger financial struggle for their mother.
Lisa is an ambitious and talented singer who wants to help her mother.
At work, she talks a friend into helping her meet famous DJ Jellybean, to see if she can get some sort of paying music gig.
Lisa and her friends attend a teen night at a local club where Jellybean is performing.
She makes her way to meet him, and he allows her to audition.
Jellybean believes she has talent, so he takes her number. But before she leaves, she is approached by Mike Hughes, who heard her audition.
He explains has a band and is looking for a singer and gives Lisa his number.
Quickly, with the help of Mike and his connections, Lisa becomes the lyrical part of the three-person Latin pop group, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.
Lisa convinces her mother to sign a recording contract for her, and things take off fast for them all.
But after some years on the rise, personal struggles, health, and contract issues threaten to stop the group for good.
Stars Jearnest Corchado , Alijah Kai , Bryan Arion , Bre-Z , Terence Willias , Donny Carrington , Matt Borlenghi , Giovanni Cristoff , Ian Lyons , Angie Martinez , Maurice P Kerry , Lisa Lisa
Directed by Tailiah Breon
Rated TV14
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