The first single from the album, 'In Sleep', was selected as Track of The Day by Q on 13 March 2010. The album was recorded in Nashville in 2009 and produced by Jacquire King. Her debut album, Catching a Tiger, was released on 21 June 2010. Lissie signed with Sony Music UK's Columbia Records. In early 2010, she toured various venues in the United Kingdom supporting Ohio-born singer-songwriter Joshua Radin. The EP was listed amongst Paste magazine's 'Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts of 2009'. One of the songs, 'Oh Mississippi' was co-written with Ed Harcourt, whom she met through a mutual friend. Her EP, Why You Runnin', produced by Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses, was released in November 2009 on Fat Possum. The Deadmau5 remix of the track was nominated for a Grammy in the 'Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical' category. But we decided to work on a new song together', she told the Quad-City Times. 'We met under that idea that he was going to remix a song of mine. Later that year, 'The Longest Road', a song she co-wrote with DJ Morgan Page reached No.В 4 on Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Songs chart. 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. In 2007, she produced a four-song EP that received some airplay on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. After spending a semester in Paris, she finished her studies to pursue a career in music. 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. She spent two years at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, during which time she would open for musicians who visited the city.

She got her diploma at an alternative outreach center. 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'. 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 high school it seems like everyone has more drama than any other time in their life.

She played the title role of the musical Annie at the age of nine. She was interested in singing and music from an early age. Her father is a physician and her mother, who is of Swedish ancestry, is an interior designer. Lissie was born Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, the youngest of four children and raised in Rock Island, Illinois.

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