Liesbeth List
Liesbeth List (born December 12, 1941 in Bandung , Dutch East Indies , † March 25, 2020 in Soest , Netherlands ) was a Dutch singer .
Live and act
She was born in 1941 as Elisabeth ("Elly") Dorothea Driessen in what was then the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia , as the daughter of Gerrit Driessen (1913–1963) and his wife Cornelia van Oosten (1916–1946). She spent the first years of her life in a Japanese concentration camp after the Japanese invasion of Java . After the liberation of her mother committed in January 1946 suicide and the father returned to the Netherlands with her. Elisabeth soon came to a home there because she did not get along with the father's second wife. After the early death of her father, she was adopted by the married couple Jacob and Anne List on Vlieland . Elisabeth Driessen became Liesbeth List.
At the age of 18 she went to Amsterdam to study fashion. She earned her living as a secretary in an architecture office. In her spare time she took singing lessons from the singing teacher Bep Ogterop.
After appearing on the talent show Nieuwe Oogst , Liesbeth List was invited to Rob de Nijs' television show in 1962. She then became popular in her home country, especially in the 1960s in a duet with Ramses Shaffy . The song Pastorale , written by Lennaert Nijgh and Boudewijn de Groot , which she recorded with Ramses Shaffy in 1968, was a great international success and was also included in the repertoire by other artists. Liesbeth List's repertoire included songs by Mikis Theodorakis , Jacques Brel , Charles Aznavour , Rod McKuen , Serge Gainsbourg , Harry Nilsson , Burt Bacharach and Gilbert Bécaud , among others .
In the Federal Republic of Germany she appeared in shows such as the ZDF hit parade (as Lisbeth List in the very first broadcast on January 18, 1969 with Der Herr Marquis von Drafi Deutscher and Hans Blum ) and the Star Parade .
List appeared as an actor in several Dutch and German films and television series, including in 1974 in For Farewell Chrysanthemums by Florian Furtwängler .
In 1994 her album List was released , with which she was able to build on her earlier successes. She went on tour again; the piece Heb het leven Ran became a hit. From 1997 she sang in various musicals, including 1999 in Piaf , where she played Édith Piaf . In 2017, the biography Liesbeth List , written by journalist Dave Boomkens, was published : De Dochter van de vuurtorenwachter ("Liesbeth List: The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter").
Liesbeth List was in a relationship with the writer Cees Nooteboom from 1965 to 1979 . She was then married to the restaurant owner Robert Braaksma, with whom she had a daughter named Elisah in 1983. He died in 2014 at the age of 64.
Liesbeth List died in her sleep on March 25, 2020 in her adopted home Soest .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 NL
|
|||
| 1968 | Pastoral |
NL8 (10 weeks) NL |
Philips 844064 PY
chart entry only 1969 |
| 1969 | Sing Jaques Brel |
NL8 (8 weeks) NL |
Philips 849010 PY
|
| 1970 | Liesbeth List |
NL47 (16 weeks) NL |
Chart entry only in 1994
|
| 1974 | photo |
NL12 (5 weeks) NL |
Philips 6413062
|
| 1989 | Liesbeth List & Ramses Shaffy |
NL24 (9 weeks) NL |
with Ramses Shaffy
|
| 1996 | Noah |
NL76 (5 weeks) NL |
|
| 1999 | Waiver |
NL57 (3 weeks) NL |
|
| 2007 | 100 mooiste songs from Ramses en Liesbeth |
NL73 (2 weeks) NL |
with Ramses Shaffy
|
| 2009 | Lost en won |
NL57 (7 weeks) NL |
|
| 2015 | echo |
NL32 (4 weeks) NL |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More albums
- 1966: Liesbeth List (Philips 844015 PY)
- 1967: Liesbeth List picks up Theodorakis (Philips 844039 PY)
- 1967: Why are you passing by
- 1970: Victoria (Philips 6360006)
- Liesbeth List (One word only one word)
- 1971: Neurenberger Droom (Philips 6423025)
- 1971: The Blue Flower - A Pop Oratorio (Philips 6830108)
- 1977: Madame Melancolie
- 1977: The Best (Intercord)
- 1979: I'm happy - I'm happy (Intercord)
- 1979: Meisjes van dertig
- 1982: Voor vanavond en daarna
- 1994: List
- 2000: Piaf - de Musical
- 2011: Nederlandstalige Popklassiekers (with Ramses Shaffy, NL:
gold)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
|
NL
|
|||
| 1969 | Pastoral pastoral |
NL3 (14 weeks) NL |
with Ramses Shaffy
|
| 1970 | Victoria Victoria |
NL15 (7 weeks) NL |
|
| 1974 | Te Veel Te Vaak Photo |
NL11 (8 weeks) NL |
|
| Kinderen Een Kwartje Photo |
NL22 (5 weeks) NL |
with The Animal Crackers
|
|
| 1978 | Laat Me |
NL18 (15 weeks) NL |
with Ramses Shaffy
|
literature
- Alex Verburg: Het voorlopige leven van Liesbeth List. Archipelago, 2001.
- Dave Boomkens: Liesbeth List - De Dochter van de vuurtorenwachter. Luitingh-Sijthoff, 2017.
Web links
- Liesbeth List in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chart entries at dutchcharts.nl
- Homepage (Dutch)
- Liesbeth List on discogs.com
- Interview with Liesbeth List at starinterviews.de
- Artist search at ikzoekenartist.nl (2003) ( Memento from February 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zangeres Liesbeth List, 78, has died. wnl.tv (Dutch), accessed March 26, 2020
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514224/
- ↑ Hein Janssen: Veel tot nog toe onbekende wetenswaardigheden beschreven in invoelende, terughoudende stijl. volkskrant.nl of December 2, 2017, accessed on March 27, 2020
- ↑ Echtgenoot van Liesbeth List overleden , AD.nl, April 19, 2014
- ↑ a b Chart sources: NL albums NL singles
- ↑ Awards for Music Sales: NL
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | List, Liesbeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bandung |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2020 |
| Place of death | Soest |