Born in Los Angeles, Lenise started her career at the early age of 8 in the Screen Children’s Guild, doing extra work in the TV and film industry. Lenise studied piano and flute and made her first recording with the Compton Youth Symphony Orchestra at 9 years old. After high school, she went on to study film & TV production at USC & Cal State Long Beach, then shifted her studies to audio engineering at SoundMasters Recording Institute, one of the only recording schools in existence at that time.

Starting out as an assistant engineer at The Village Recorders in Los Angeles, she worked on several albums including “Aja” by Steely Dan, “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp and “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac. Later she became chief engineer for producer Mike Chapman recording the platinum selling record “AutoAmerican” for Blondie plus several of Chapman’s other artists such as The Knack and Suzi Quatro, recording at a variety of studios including The Record Plant, Air London and United Western (which later became Ocean Way, then Cello, and now EastWest Studios.)

Lenise segued to post production mixing, editing and supervising where she recorded all types of audio, from music to voice-over, ADR and foley. She's traveled the world supervising & producing the vocals and dialogue recording for foreign language versions of films for Dreamworks, including SHREK, SPIRIT & SHREK 2.

Lenise periodically teaches classes at SAE-LA Institute of Technology on “Studio Budgets, Protocols and Etiquette”, “Location Sound, Foley and Hard Effects” and “History of Audio Recording” which is conducted at the Grammy Museum. As a freelance consultant, she has been creating industry relationships between SAE-LA and the vibrant music and post-production communities in the southern California area.

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