◇ image via WikipediaIzzy Bizu
Izzy Bizu is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Akira The Don, Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Bettye Swann and James Brown. Those roots explain a lot about how Izzy Bizu arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jamila Woods, Ella Eyre, Nectar Woode, Pip Millett and Mahalia, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Kungs, David Guetta, Coldplay, Sam Smith and Rudimental, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 44 connections around Izzy Bizu, reaching back through Akira The Don and forward to Kungs. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Isobel Bizu Beardshaw, better known as Izzy Bizu, is a British-Ethiopian singer-songwriter previously signed with Epic Records. Bizu has garnered mainstream radio support from BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac and Phil Taggart and BBC Radio 1Xtra's Trevor Nelson. She has supported Coldplay, Sam Smith, Rudimental, and Foxes. In November 2015, Bizu was shortlisted for a Brit Critics' Choice award and longlisted for BBC's Sound of... 2016. She won the BBC Music Introducing Award at the 2016 ceremony. On 25 June 2016, Bizu performed on the Park Stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
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Izzy Bizu connections
Izzy Bizu grew out of Akira The Don, Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald and Bettye Swann, shares an orbit with Jamila Woods, Ella Eyre, Nectar Woode and Pip Millett, went on to shape Kungs, David Guetta, Coldplay and Sam Smith. 44 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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Artists similar to Izzy Bizu
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