Elisabeth Dorathea "Liesbeth" List (born Driessen; December 12, 1941 – March 25, 2020)[1] was a Dutch singer.

List was born in Bandoeng, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), as Elisabeth "Elly" Dorathea Driessen.

Her parents were separated in 1942 when during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, her father was forced to work in coal mines.

This caused List to focus on a musical career and she released her debut album in 1966.

In 1967, Mikis Theodorakis asked her to collaborate on an LP of his Mauthausen Ballad, describing the persecution of Jews during the Second World War in dramatic chansons.

In 1990, she started on a similar show, but it gained neither critical nor commercial success, therefore List accepted that her career had ended.

In the 90s singer, songwriter and producer Frank Boeijen revived List's career.

[3] In 1999 she released Vergezicht which contains the song Heb Het Leven Lief (Love life) which she sang in 2007 at the memorial celebration for Jos Brink,[4] with whom she had performed in a musical Het Hemelbed[5] to great acclaim.

In 2000 and in 2009, she won the coveted John Kraaijkamp Musical Award[6][circular reference] for this role.

In 2017, List decided to retire from music because she was developing dementia due to brain damage she had sustained in a car accident earlier in life.