Biography

Singer-guitarist Liseth Horsten has a voice of the distinctive and recognizable kind; an authentic and soulful voice with much depth and character and a delightful timing. Her songs are strong and personal, and have a style of their own in which the influence of different music is audible. They go from melancholic and layered small songs, to semi-acoustic rock.

Solo as well as with her three-piece band Liseth & The Satellites she played these passionate songs, in a typical mix of rootsy styles, in several americana venues and some local festivals. Untill the end of 2024, when it was time for reflection and renewal.

Next to her own music, Liseth is a music teacher, and she plays guitar and sings backingvocals in Second Harvest; THE Neil Young coverband of the Tilburg area. She also sings on funerals. And since recently (Jan. '26) she picked up her old bassguitar again to play in film-rockband MotorBongo (based in Eindhoven).

Liseth & The Satellites
(photo by Anja van Eersel)

From the nineties untill ...

Liseth began writing acoustic guitar songs in the nineties, after the rockband in which she had started as a bassplayer had broken up. This brought her to stages at home and abroad. Much later, during and after her music education ('99 - '04, her second Bachelor) she build her practice as a musician and teacher. She starred in several commercial projects and her own songs were low on the priority list for long. But the desire to pay attention to her own music again was undeniable...
So that was given a new lease of life when she recorded the EP Kites and Traffic Lights in California with guitarist/singer Michael Roe and bassist Mark Harmon (2015). A charming album with sun drenched and melancholic guitar songs.

Back in The Netherlands she formed a semi-acoustic trio with guitarist/singer Eric van Dijsseldonk (JW Roy, Ricky Koole, Malford Milligan) and bassist Lucas Beukers (Gé Reinders, Eric Devries, NinaLynn). Experienced musicians with the same shared love for the organic guitar sounds of the sixties and seventies.
In between everyone's music projects, music teaching and touring, the band recorded a new EP with drummer and producer Gabriel Peeters. He gave the album a lovely full-band sound. The EP Miss officially saw the ligt of life on the shortest day of the year: December 21th, 2021, Midwinter. As a symbol of hope, because from that date on the days will become longer and lighter again.

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With Marc van Hout (left)
(photo by Frans van der Meer)

In May 2023 Eric van Dijsseldonk left the band to devote himself to other music projects. He was replaced by guitarist Marc van Hout (Living Room Heroes) and a new series of successful semi-acoustic performances followed.

In the fall of 2024, a band break was taken and Liseth withdrew to reflect on what her next musical step in 2025 would be. With one new project already in the pipeline: in the summer of 2025 she played guitar and ukulele in 'The Birds of Catarina', a film and musical performance by Rinel van Venrooij. And later she participated in 'Voices of the Earth' by Maia Steinberg.

And no, this is not the end of Liseth's singer-songwriter music. But sometimes it's good to broaden the horizon and do something else ;-)

To be continued...

"such beautiful music, such honest songs..." (Hijlco Span, radio presenter and producer, about Kites and Traffic Lights EP)

"A beautiful voice, warm, sometimes dreamy but always flawlessly in tune. Her stage performance is natural and relaxed. A woman that sings from her heart so that the music really touches the audience. Gorgeously accompanied by Lucas Beukers on bass and Eric van Dijsseldonk on guitar. The question that rises during the concert is: why is this woman with this quality not much more known?" (W.R., venue programmer)

The extended version. History. For those who love to read.

ONCE UPON A TIME, when Liseth was still in pigtails, they tried to teach her some musicality by making her play the recorder, followed by (voluntary this time) clarinet. She didn't really connect with the instrument after all, so a year later she called it a day... But a few years later her teenage eyes lightened up when an old nylon-stringed guitar entered the house and into her older sister's room, and once she got her hands on it she tuned the strings down to play 'bassguitar'...

After the breakup of the rockband in which Liseth had learned to play a real bassguitar (halfway the 90's), and after discovering she also liked to sing, she started writing intimate and expressive songs on acoustic guitar. These brought her to various venues in The Netherlands and abroad: cafés and clubs, Flevofestival (NL), Greenbelt Festival (UK). In 1998 she did a short tour through Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands, together with Mr Bennet (CAN) & Jeff Tarayla (USA), and released her first EP.

From 1999 until 2004 Liseth attended the brand new Fontys Rockacademy in Tilburg (NL), a Bachelor music course that helped to bring about a big change in both her musical and personal life. She played her songs solo and with her band The Disposable Souls with which she recorded a demo in 2002, played in a few schoolbands, and in jazz/singer-songwriter project The Gift that released a stunningly beautiful CD in 2003.

From 2004 she started working as a vocal teacher, played guitar and sang in an acoustic commercial cover project, and even dressed up as a discodiva to sing her rent and groceries together. Too busy building and surviving and trying out new things, her own original music faded into the background only to come to the surface on special occasions. Meanwhile she did some cool projects though: backing vocals in other bands, writing songs for a theatre play (in Dutch), putting someone's poems on music, or singing oriental improvisational melodies during a modern dance theatre production.

And because blood is thicker, new songs pop out from time to time, and shows with her own repertoire suddenly appear in the agenda. Her 2015 EP Kites and Traffic Lights was a good step towards new songs, new recordings, new directions, new frontiers... to boldly go where she has never gone before >>>

Biography

From the nineties untill ...

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The extended version. History. For those who love to read.