Lisa Schettner

Elisabeth Schettner, known as Lisa Schettner (previously Liz Schettner), is a French singer-songwriter and producer, of French, Czech and German descent.^[1]

Environmentalist and human rights defender, Schettner is known for her activism through her songwriting, including her songs "Wild", "Hands Off Ukraine", "Bayraktar [Mashup Edition]", and "Out of Touch". Most of her other songs are romantic, folk, medieval, Celtic ballads.^[2]

Schettner's song "Bayraktar [Mashup Edition]", written in collaboration with Ukrainian colonel Taras Borovok,^[3][4] talks about the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Major newspapers, such as The Telegraph^[5] and La Dépêche,^[6] picked up the story, and the song was also shared on the official Telegram page of the Ukrainian parliament.^[7] The single made it to the Ukrainian hit parade, and has been played on Ukrainian radio stations.^{[8][9][10][11]} "Bayraktar [Mashup Edition]" is referenced in Tjasa Mohar and Victor Kennedy's book Words, Music and Propaganda, published in 2023.^[12] The song is also the subject of the article Not your ordinary drone: odes to the Bayraktar in the Russia–Ukraine war, published in 2024 by the Cambridge University Press.^[13]

Georgian writer Tamuna Tsertsvadze, in her book Gift of the Fox, named one of the main characters Liz Schettner, in honour of the singer-songwriter.^[14][15] Following that, Schettner wrote "Edmund's Lullaby", based on Tsertsvadze's lyrics, as a soundtrack for Tsertsvadze's novel Zodiac Circle.^[16]

Schettner's folk songs "Up High" and "Great Expectations" were elected for the Celtic Top 20 of the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.^[17] Additionally, "Up High" received an honourable mention in the Texas Scot Talent contest.^[18] Schettner's track "Baby Beauty" reached international popularity, has been used by thousands of social media users, and is regularly played at baby shower parties.^{[19][unreliable source?]}