Young, Sad, and Blue
The single enters the conversation with a sound all its own and later reaches the Billboard Hot 100.
Story
A Washington, D.C.-born singer-songwriter with more than two decades of music, now writing from a deeper place of ownership.
Liner notes
The song keeps changing shape.
Lysette began professionally as a young vocalist, then built years of songwriting, background, and session work around a voice people already knew. Her own catalog is now at the center, carrying more life, more authorship, and more room to say exactly what she means.
The work was never a detour. It was a long apprenticeship in song, arrangement, presence, and discernment. Every room added a layer, every collaboration sharpened the point of view.
Now the story is not about starting over. It is about returning to the center with the full weight of experience intact, and making space for the music to say more than it could before.
From the archive
The original
Young, Sad, and Blue.
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Young, Sad, and Blue · original visual
Moments
Backyard Band
Lysette is the female lead in DC’s own Backyard Band, carrying a powerful voice through a defining chapter of the city’s Go-Go scene.
Neo-Soul Night
Lysette appears at Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Washington, DC, alongside a new generation of soul voices.
New chapters
For The Kids, RLD (Rhythm Like This) [R&B Mix], and other new work bring Lysette’s own music back to the center.
Reimagined
Six new takes on Young, Sad, and Blue bring collaborators and Go-Go rhythm into the frame.