Lissie
American singer-songwriter
Elisabeth Corrin Maurus (born November 21, 1982), known professionally as Lissie, is an American singer-songwriter. Her debut extended play (EP), Why You Runnin' (2009), led her to sign with Columbia Records to release her debut studio album, Catching a Tiger (2010). Her second album and final release on a major label, Back to Forever (2013), was followed by her critically acclaimed-third album, My Wild West (2016), and later her fourth and fifth albums Castles (2018) and Carving Canyons (2022).
Early life
Lissie was born Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, the youngest of four children and raised in Rock Island, Illinois. Her father is a physician and her mother, who is of Swedish ancestry, is an interior designer. She was interested in singing and music from an early age. She played the title role of the musical Annie at the age of nine. "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".
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q270239. VIAF identifies the subject as 122277827. The Library of Congress control number is no2011024553. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2009, 2010 and 2013.
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