Eliza Shaddad

Mar 16, 2022

12:00am – 12:40am CT

Seven Grand

This performance is part of the showcase that starts on Tuesday, March 15at Seven Grand

Eliza Shaddad is an independent musician of Scottish/Sudanese heritage. Her work centres around grunge-laden guitar riffs and raw, confessional lyricism exploring questions of culture, identity, and emotion. She is a graduate in Philosophy and Jazz, and her work has been championed by tastemakers such as Zane Lowe (Beats 1) and Lauren Laverne (BBC Radio 1) and supported by the likes of Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Refinery29, and FADER.

2021 saw the release of Shaddad's striking second album 'The Woman You Want', supported by weekly livestreams seen over 250,000 times, and a full length livestream concert which was recently acquired by Sky Arts TV. Shaddad has written with the likes of Grammy-winners Clean Bandit, toured the UK/EU with Keane, Turin Brakes, ISLAND, and Beth Rowley, and she is a founding member of ten-year-strong female arts collective Girls Girls Girls, working to provide a safe, open space for womxn in the arts. Eliza is proud to be a participant of the 2022 Keychange programme.

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Cornwall, UK-ENGLAND
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Indie Rock