Lyzza, stylized as LYZZA, is a Brazilian artist, Music Producer and DJ.

Background

As a teenager she enrolled in a DJ workshop class at Amsterdam community-centre Studio Nowhere, which encouraged her to keep pursuing music. In 2016 she started as a

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DJ in Amsterdam and eventually started touring around the club scene in Europe. As an electronic pop artist, she released four EPs and a mixtape and has been associated with the

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genre as well as "post-

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". Lyzza has cemented her presence in the avant-garde music world and her career has taken her across high-profile festivals such as Sonar, Melt!,

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and

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, the last performance resulting in Pitchfork recognising her as one of th
“Best of Primavera Sound 2018.”
Lyzza has produced music for

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and has made remixes for

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and American musician

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/ Trickfinger his experimental electronic label Evar Records. Lyzza has cited Nicki Minaj's '' Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'' (2012) as an influence, explaining how "''Roman Reloaded'' taught me you don’t have to censor yourself, there’s not that many rules to the artistic creation of music." Lyzza has stated that she found her

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community with Ariel Zetina, Jasmine Infiniti,

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, among others. In 2022, Lyzza released her mixtape Mosquito on the label Big Dada, an imprint of

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. The mixtape featured a collaboration with Spanish artist

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. and Zambian - Canadian rapper and producer and 2020

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-winner

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Since 2023, Lyzza has expanded her artistry and debuted her first gallery-exhibited soundpiece 'Echo's' at The Serpentine Gallery as part of 'Third World:The Bottom Dimension', a multi-part project
exhibition
and free-for-all P
Video Game
conceptualised by artist and collaborator Gabriel Massan. Gabriel was the youngest artist to have their own solo-exhibition and Lyzza was the youngest artists ever showcased at the gallery, earning them a collaborative cover for Fact Magazine's S/S 2023 Issue.

References

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