Birth name: Elisabeth Corrin Maurus
Origin: Rock Island, Illinois
Genres: Country, folk rock, Dark Country, Soft Rock
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. 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.
Her EP, "Why You Runnin'", produced by Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses, was released in November 2009 on Fat Possum. One of the songs, "Oh Mississippi" was co-written with Ed Harcourt, whom she met through a mutual friend. The EP was listed amongst Paste magazine's "Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts of 2009". 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. The album was recorded in Nashville in 2009 and produced by Jacquire King. The first single from the album, "In Sleep", was selected as Track of The Day by Q on 13 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.
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 (
), as a result of listener feedback, Lissie and the album "Catching A Tiger" was 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.The "Cuckoo" EP includes Lissie's live version of "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga, which became popular online before being included on the release.
She appeared on BBC radio's the Great British Songbook series on August 31, 2010, performing a cover of "Stairway to Heaven." The host of the show, Simon Mayo, described as "breathtaking".
Her song "Little Lovin" was featured in the Season 2 promo for Justified on FX.
She opened for Tom Petty in the nationally acclaimed benefit concert for new L.A. radio station 88.5 KCSN.
Lissie is featured on at least 4 tracks on Snow Patrol's album Fallen Empires, released in November 2011.
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.
Her cover of Kid Cudi's 'Pursuit of Happiness' was featured in Guy Mariano's part in the Girl and Chocolate skateboards video 'Pretty Sweet'.
Lissie appeared on "Losers", the closing song on Take the Crown by British singer Robbie Williams, released November 2, 2012. The album was produced by Garret Lee who produced Lissie's second album, Back To Forever.
On July 21, 2013 she released her video of the song Further Away (Romance Police) written by Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, Jim Irvin and Julian Emery and produced by Garret Lee, the second single from her album Back to Forever.
On October 13, 2013 Lissie released Sleepwalking, the third single from Back to Forever.
In February 2014, a fourth single, "The Habit" was added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist, and Lissie announced the release in March of an independent EP of cover versions called Cryin' To You, which includes covers of Mother by Danzig, Drakes's Hold On We're Going Home and Bob Dylan's To Ramona.
On November 4, 2015, she announced her new album, My Wild West, would be released February 12, 2016.
Lissie resides on a 10 acre farm in northeast Iowa, moving there from Ojai California in 2015. She is an avid fan of fantasy literature, citing His Dark Materials and the Harry Potter series as favorites.
