Lissie

With her sun-kissed, wistful folk-pop and positive, hippy sensibilities, Lissie's music has been compared to that of Fleetwood Mac, Neko Case and Sheryl Crow. A Midwest girl from a small town in Illinois, she moved to Los Angeles when she was 20 and strummed away in local bars and coffee houses before being discovered by Lenny Kravitz's manager and taken on tour with the rocker himself. She lent her vocals to DJ Harry's 'All My Life' which was featured in TV shows 'House', 'The O.C.' and 'Veronica Mars', and her collaboration with house producer Morgan Page earned her a Grammy Award nomination before debut album 'Catching a Tiger' (2010) reached number 12 in the UK.

Praised for her husky, smoky vocals and dreamy melodies, Lissie spent a gruelling couple of years touring relentlessly and playing at every festival she could get to, but when she worked with Snow Patrol on their track 'The Garden Rules' and with Robbie Williams on 'Losers', she realised she'd made the big time. Her second album 'Back to Forever', released in 2013, again made the UK top 20, followed in 2016 with 'My Wild West'. She appeared in the television drama 'Twin Peaks' in 2017 performing her song 'Wild West' and was a guest on 'MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice' performing 'I've Been Losing You' with a-ha's Morten Harket. 2018 saw the release of her fourth album 'Castles' which charted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart.