Lissie

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Lissie

| image = Lissie - Ilosaarirock 2013 - 05.jpg

| caption = Lissie performing in July 2013

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|11|21|mf=yes}}

| birth_name = Elisabeth Corrin Maurus{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/lissiemusic/status/318936327829741568 |title=Lissie Maurus on Twitter: "@middlenamegame corrin" |publisher=Twitter |access-date=2015-12-13}}{{cite web|title=Lissie - Everywhere I Go Lyrics|url=http://www.songlyrics.com/lissie/everywhere-i-go-lyrics/|access-date=16 November 2015}}

| birth_place = Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.

| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}}

| genre = {{hlist|rock|pop|country|folk}}

| occupation = Singer-songwriter

| years_active = 2006–present

| label = {{hlist|Cooking Vinyl|Columbia|Fat Possum}}

| associated_acts = {{hlist|Bigbang|Ellie Goulding|Robbie Williams|Morgan Page|Snow Patrol|Lenny Kravitz|Joshua Radin|Band of Horses}}

| website = {{URL|lissie.com}}

}}

Elisabeth Corrin Maurus (born November 21, 1982),{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lissie|bio=true}}|title=Lissie Biography & Awards|magazine=Billboard|access-date=1 July 2010}} known as Lissie, is an American singer-songwriter. She released her debut EP, "Why You Runnin'", in November 2009. Her debut album, Catching a Tiger, was released in June 2010. Her second studio album, Back to Forever, was released in October 2013. Her first record as an independent artist, and third studio album, My Wild West, was released February 12, 2016 and went on to receive critical acclaim. Her fourth studio album Castles, was released worldwide on March 23, 2018. Her fifth studio album, Carving Canyons, was released September 16, 2022.

Early life

Lissie was born Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, the youngest of four children BBC Radio 2 interview for "Tracks of my Years" : 18th June 2018 and raised in Rock Island, Illinois. Her father is a physician and her mother, who is of Swedish ancestry,{{cite news| url=http://radarcollective.com/music/interview/lissie/ | work=Radar Magazine News | title=Lissie | date=28 November 2013}} is an interior designer.{{cite web|url=http://www.stereofox.com/interview-lissie |title=Interview: Lissie |publisher=Stereofox |date=2013-06-12 |access-date=2015-12-13}} She was interested in singing and music from an early age.{{cite web|url=http://www.popculturemadness.com/interview/Lissie.html|title=Lissie Interview|date=11 February 2008|publisher=PopCultureMadness|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224012223/https://popculturemadness.com/interview/Lissie.html|archive-date=February 24, 2012|url-status=dead}} She played the title role of the musical Annie at the age of nine.{{cite web|url=http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/03/sxsw-2010-lissie/|title=Lissie Interview: SXSW 2010 – Spinner|last=Reilly|first=Dan|date=3 March 2010|work=Spinner|access-date=29 May 2010}} "In high school it seems like everyone has more drama than any other time in their life. So that was the time in my life where I really leaned on music as a way to stay sane," she said in an interview.

In her senior year of high school, she was expelled over what she described as "something stupid that I did, but it was sort of like the culmination of just a lot of negative things that had happened". She got her diploma at an alternative outreach center.{{cite web|url=http://ctnmusic.com/2008/12/22/lissie/|title=Lissie|date=22 December 2008|publisher=ctnmusic.com|access-date=29 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226063139/http://ctnmusic.com/2008/12/22/lissie/|archive-date=26 February 2010}} She spent two years at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,{{cite news|url=http://qctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_cbd51734-f650-5c64-9118-492fc165a594.html|title=Rock Island native Lissie hits Billboard's charts|last=Burke|first=David|date=9 May 2008|newspaper=Quad-City Times|access-date=28 May 2010}} during which time she would open for musicians who visited the city. She collaborated with DJ Harry of SCI Fidelity Records on the song "All My Life", which was featured on television shows House, The O.C., Veronica Mars and Wildfire. After spending a semester in Paris, she finished her studies to pursue a career in music. In 2007, she produced a four-song EP that received some airplay on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Career

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In early 2008, Lenny Kravitz invited her to be the opening act for his Love Revolution Tour, after a friend tipped him about her MySpace page.{{cite web|url=http://chicago.metromix.com/music/article/local-q-and-a/1596927/content |title=Local Q&A: Lissie |last=Pais |first=Matt |date=9 November 2009 |publisher=Metromix Chicago |access-date=1 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211144648/http://chicago.metromix.com/music/article/local-q-and-a/1596927/content |archive-date=11 February 2010 }} Later that year, "The Longest Road", a song she co-wrote with DJ Morgan Page reached No. 4 on Billboard{{'}}s Hot Dance Club Songs chart. "We met under that idea that he was going to remix a song of mine ... But we decided to work on a new song together", she told the Quad-City Times. The Deadmau5 remix of the track was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical" category.{{cite web|url=http://dancemusic.about.com/od/conference/a/51GramNomAnn.htm |title=2009 Dance Grammy Nominees and Winners |website=Dancemusic.about.com |access-date=2015-12-13}}

Her EP, Why You Runnin', produced by Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses, was released in November 2009 on Fat Possum.{{cite web|url=http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/lydverket-elsker-lissie/|title=Lydverket elsker: Lissie|last=Grepperud|first=Amund|date=10 February 2010|publisher=Lydverket|language=no|access-date=28 May 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2010/04/lissie-maurus-is-full-of-true.html|title=Lissie Maurus is full of true rebel country spirit|last=Martin|first=Gavin|date=2 April 2010|newspaper=Daily Mirror|access-date=28 May 2010|archive-date=24 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524051637/http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2010/04/lissie-maurus-is-full-of-true.html|url-status=dead}} One of the songs, "Oh Mississippi" was co-written with Ed Harcourt, whom she met through a mutual friend.{{cite web|url = http://www.performermag.com/Bands/Article/2010/Lissie%20Maurus|title = SPOTLIGHT: Lissie Maurus|last = Petro|first = Cristopher|publisher = Performer Magazine|access-date = 28 May 2010}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The EP was listed amongst Paste magazine's "Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts of 2009".{{cite magazine|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/12/the-eight-most-auspicious-musical-debuts-of-2009.html|title=The Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts of 2009|last=Maddux|first=Rachael|date=22 December 2009|magazine=Paste|access-date=29 May 2010}}

In early 2010, she toured various venues in the United Kingdom supporting Ohio-born singer-songwriter Joshua Radin.

Lissie signed with Sony Music UK's Columbia Records. Her debut album, Catching a Tiger, was released on 21 June 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.virgin.com/music/news/lissie-and-ellie-goulding-duet-at-great-escape |title=Lissie and Ellie Goulding duet at Great Escape |last=Rose |first=Greg |date=25 May 2010 |publisher=Virgin Records |access-date=29 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620214813/http://www.virgin.com/music/news/lissie-and-ellie-goulding-duet-at-great-escape |archive-date=20 June 2010 }} The album was recorded in Nashville in 2009 and produced by Jacquire King.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/12/new-band-lissie|title=Lissie (No 725)|last=Lester|first=Paul|date=12 February 2010|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=1 June 2010|location=London}} The first single from the album, "In Sleep", was selected as Track of The Day by Q on 13 March 2010.{{cite magazine|url=http://news.qthemusic.com/2010/03/lissie_-_in_sleep_1.html |title=Lissie – In Sleep – Track Of The Day |date=13 March 2010 |magazine=Q |access-date=29 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324114448/http://news.qthemusic.com/2010/03/lissie_-_in_sleep_1.html |archive-date=24 March 2010 }} A second single, "When I'm Alone," was released alongside the album; it would later be chosen by iTunes UK as their song of the year 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/lissiemusic/posts/149973661720259|title="When I'm Alone" has been chosen by iTunes UK as their SONG OF THE YEAR!!|date=21 December 2010|publisher=iTunes|access-date=21 December 2010}}

In August 2010, her single "Cuckoo" was voted overwhelmingly to be the Record of the Week by listeners of expat radio station Heart FM Spain (www.heartfmspain.com), as a result of listener feedback, Lissie and the album "Catching A Tiger" were featured throughout the week of August 23 to 27. The single was also added to the "A" level playlist on BBC Radio 2 giving it around twenty plays a week on the UK's most popular station.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/music/playlist/ |title=Radio 2 - Playlist |publisher=BBC |date=1970-01-01 |access-date=2015-12-13}} The Cuckoo EP includes Lissie's live version of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga, which became popular online before being included on the release.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lissie--a-little-bit-country-and-a-whole-lot-rocknroll-2062961.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/lissie--a-little-bit-country-and-a-whole-lot-rocknroll-2062961.html |archive-date=2022-06-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Lissie - A little bit country and a whole lot rock'n'roll |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=2015-12-13}}

Lissie is featured on at least 4 tracks on Snow Patrol's album Fallen Empires, released in November 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/news/snow-patrol-working-with-lissie |title=News | Clash Magazine |website=Clashmusic.com |date=2015-10-21 |access-date=2015-12-13}}

Her cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' found prominence in early 2012, when it was used in a Twinings advert and in the film Safe Haven. The song was also used as a theme for the BBC Radio 4 reading of Iain Banks's Stonemouth, read by David Tennant. The song was also featured in the closing moments of the first-season finale for "Good Behavior" in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/tv/good-behavior-season-finale-postmortem-co-creator-chad-hodge-talks-letty-and-javiers-fate-025948176.html |title='Good Behavior' Season Finale Postmortem|date=11 January 2017 }}

On 4 November 2015, she announced the released date for her new album, My Wild West, as 12 February 2016.{{cite web|url=https://instagram.com/p/9qvQAdxWTb/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/9qvQAdxWTb |archive-date=2021-12-24 |url-access=limited|title=Instagram |publisher=Instagram |access-date=2015-12-13}}{{cbignore}}

She performed her song 'Wild West' in Part 14 of the third season of Twin Peaks.

In season 3 of the TV show Loudermilk that was released in 2020, she played a fictional character called Lizzie Poole who used to be a singer-songwriter in a band called Pool, but gave that career up after a negative review written by the title character, Sam Loudermilk, played by Ron Livingston. The songs that character performs in the show are previously released Lissie songs, including "When I'm Alone."

Personal life

Lissie lives on a farm in northeast Iowa, moving there from Ojai, California, in 2015. She is a fan of fantasy literature, citing His Dark Materials and the Harry Potter series as favorites.

Discography

Catching a Tiger (2010)
Back to Forever (2013)
My Wild West (2016)
Castles (2018)
Carving Canyons (2022){{cite web|url=https://narcmagazine.com/album-review-lissie-carving-canyons/|title=Album Review: Lissie – Carving Canyons|website=Narc Magazine|last=Barker|first=James|date=September 16, 2022|access-date=September 16, 2022}}

References

External links

[http://www.lissie.com Official Website]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120730001635/http://www.columbia.co.uk/artists/lissie/ UK Record Label Bio]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110407081607/http://www.bonedo.de/feature/allgemein/interviews/video-interview-lissie/video-interview-lissie/index.html Lissie Interview, Gear- & Song-Writing-Talk German site/English videos] Bonedo.de
[https://www.npr.org/2011/08/28/140017382/catching-a-tiger-a-midwestern-debut-album Interview with Lissie on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, 08/28/11]

Category:1982 births

Category:Living people

Category:American women country singers

Category:American country singer-songwriters

Category:American women singer-songwriters

Category:American women rock singers

Category:American folk rock musicians

Category:American people of Swedish descent

Category:Columbia Records artists

Category:Singer-songwriters from California

Category:Singer-songwriters from Illinois

Category:People from Ojai, California