Lead vocals
For a lyric that needs presence, clarity, and a human temperature. Lysette's own work carries intimacy and strength in the same breath, making room for a vocal to feel immediate without becoming overworked.
Professional vocal work
Female Session Singer
for R&B & Soul Projects
A voice for the part that needs more than notes. Lysette Titi brings range, emotional detail, and a long relationship with song to projects that need to land with feeling.
The voice inside the record
Bring the song closer to the skin.
Some songs need a vocal that arrives polished and precise. Others need a voice with some grain in it, a point of view, and enough restraint to leave room for the listener. Lysette Titi works from that second place. Her approach begins with the feeling under the lyric, then finds the phrasing, tone, and movement that let the feeling come through.
Lysette is a Washington, D.C.-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and vocalist whose work travels through R&B, soul, pop, hip-hop, and the rhythmic language of D.C. Go-Go. That range is not a collection of borrowed styles. It is a lived musical vocabulary, built across more than two decades in recording rooms, collaborative sessions, and on stages where a vocal has to hold its own.
A long musical arc
Range with a center.
The right session singer does not make every song sound the same. She listens for the emotional job of the part, then helps the record meet it.
Background vocals
For harmonies and layers that support the song's center rather than crowd it. The goal is shape, lift, and texture, with a close ear for where the arrangement needs air.
Songwriting
For projects that need a singer-songwriter's instincts inside the room. Lysette's history as a writer keeps the vocal connected to the lyric, the melody, and the emotional turn of the song.
Built in collaboration
Listen for the space between the words.
Lysette's professional story includes songwriting, recording, background, and session work alongside a broad group of artists and collaborators, including David Guetta, Galantis, MNEK, Pheelz, Monica, 702, Chucky Thompson, Rodney Jerkins, and Dallas Austin.
That experience matters because a session is rarely only about singing well. It is about hearing the assignment beneath the reference track. Is the vocal meant to bring the hook forward? Let a harmony carry the ache? Warm up a clean production? Add muscle without losing tenderness? A useful voice responds to the actual record, not an idea of what a record should be.
Read The Washington Post's note on Lysette's voiceFor songs with a point of view
R&B and soul vocals that stay with the listener.
R&B and soul leave nowhere to hide. A singer can have power, control, and a beautiful tone, yet the part still will not travel if the phrasing does not reveal something. Lysette's voice is rooted in the emotional precision those songs demand. She understands when a line wants to sit behind the beat, when it needs to lean into the consonants, and when the strongest choice is to let the lyric almost break before it resolves. The aim is never vocal decoration for its own sake. It is a performance with enough character to make a listener believe the lyric has already happened.
That sensitivity carries across adjacent worlds. Pop can ask for a vocal that gives the production a pulse. Hip-hop can need a melodic thread that keeps a hard rhythm open. A Go-Go-influenced moment may call for a voice that understands response, momentum, and the energy of a room. The sound can change. The task remains the same: find the detail that turns an arrangement into a record people remember.
There is also an arranging instinct in a strong vocal performance. The lead needs to know when it is carrying the entire room and when a background response should take the focus for a bar. Harmonies need to move with the chord without smoothing away the tension that makes a lyric true. A hook may need the cleanest line in the song, or it may need one small rough edge so it feels like someone means it. Lysette brings a songwriter's attention to those choices, because the vocal does not sit on top of the production. It is one of the ways the production tells its story.
That attention is useful before a song is fully settled, too. When a project still has a question at its center, a thoughtful voice can help bring the question into focus. The lyric may want a different shape. The melody may be waiting for a more conversational turn. The arrangement may need less, not more. The point is not to overtake the artist or the producer's vision. The point is to serve the version of the song that feels most alive.
Her recent release Young, Sad, and Blue Reimagined gives that instinct several different frames. The project returns to one original song through six versions, including a D.C. Go-Go interpretation. It is a useful way to hear the same emotional source move through different production choices without losing its center.
A clear way in
Start with the song.
Share the brief
Bring the song, the musical role, the reference points, and the feeling you want the listener to carry away. Specificity makes the first conversation more useful.
Name the need
Lead vocal, background layers, songwriting, or another professional music inquiry. The right starting point is the job the voice needs to do inside your project.
Begin the conversation
Use Lysette's professional profile to share the details directly. A considered inquiry makes room for the music, the schedule, and the creative fit to be discussed clearly.
Questions, answered
Before the first note.
What kind of vocal work can I inquire about?
Professional inquiries can begin with the musical role you need to fill, whether that is a featured vocal, a supporting vocal part, songwriting, or a broader creative conversation. The best first note includes the song, the sound you are reaching for, the schedule, and the part the voice needs to play.
What does Lysette's voice bring to a song?
Lysette moves through R&B, soul, pop, hip-hop, and Washington, D.C.'s Go-Go tradition. The through-line is feel: a voice that can hold a lyric close, bring weight to a harmony, or make a hook feel lived-in rather than simply delivered.
Where should I send a professional inquiry?
Lysette's SoundBetter profile is the professional starting point for vocal, songwriting, booking, press, sync, and licensing inquiries. It is the right place to share the project details and begin a considered conversation.
Can I hear Lysette's current work before I reach out?
Yes. The Music page holds current releases, and the Audio & Visual Vault offers another way into the catalog. Listening first is the clearest way to hear the tone, range, and emotional detail that could serve your project.
Hear the range
Begin with the feeling you need to leave behind.
Listen to the current music, spend time with the archive, then bring the right conversation in.