Eliza (English singer)

Before entering the charts, Eliza toured the UK with her band. She released and EP including songs Naive produced by Al Shux (A New York State of Mind), Ego and Piano Song produced by Truth & Soul (Lee Fields, El Michels Affair). On 29 November 2009 a further EP release featuring the tracks "Rollerblades", "Moneybox", "Police Car" and "Go Home" produced by Craigie Dodds, Johnny Dollar, Matt Prime and Phil Thornaley. Tracks from the EP were remixed by Plastic Little ("Rollerblades"), Sam Young and Jamie xx from The xx ("Money Box"). The EP received radio plays from Rob Da Bank, Nick Grimshaw,[12] Fearne Cotton and Jo Whiley.

She recorded a song called 'Running For Life' which featured on the soundtrack of the cult British film Adulthood in 2008. Later that year, she performed at Glastonbury on the Pussy Parlour stage, her first festival performance.[13]

Eliza at Skyfest, 2011

In early 2010, she took part in musician Shane MacGowan's charity single "I Put a Spell on You", in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[14] Her debut single "Skinny Genes" was released on 12 April 2010, reaching No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart. She told BBC's Steve Lamacq the song is "a funny scenario if you didn't like someone, if they were really annoying, but you had a good time under the sheets."[15] Eliza's second release "Pack Up" was released on 5 July 2010, reaching No. 5 on the Official UK Singles Chart on 11 July 2010.[16]

Eliza in August 2011 performing at SkyFest

In March 2011, she performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas[17] as well at Coachella in California.[18] In April 2011, Eliza was touring the UK. On 19 April 2011, Eliza's self-titled album was released in the United States almost one year from the UK date.

In 2013, Eliza collaborated with Disclosure on the track "You & Me" from their debut album, Settle.[6] Early that year, she began recording new material for her second album. In an interview with Elle magazine in April 2013, she stated "I'm definitely showing more of myself than I ever have before. I feel like on my last album, I hadn't experienced very much of anything really, and it's been three years or more since then and I have felt and seen things I hadn't before, and I know things I didn't know before. In a way I have answers to questions, but then those answers open up a thousand other questions. I guess I've gone through things that so many people go through at the age I am. I've written almost every day about my every thought and emotion and the album is made up of the songs that mean the most to me".[19]

On 7 June 2013, she premiered a new single called "Big When I Was Little", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1's playlist, and features on her second studio album. On 17 June 2013 the video for the single premiered on her YouTube channel.[20]

Eliza and UK garage artist Wookie wrote a song called "The Hype" in 2013. Wookie contributed a remix to her album In Your Hands for her track "Walking on Water".

She featured on "YNSP", a track from hip hop artist Vic Mensa's Innanetape mixtape produced by DJ Dahi.

She had a cameo role as a nightclub singer in The Great Train Robbery, a drama series on BBC One in December 2013.

In 2014, Eliza was invited by Burt Bacharach to sing with him at Henley Festival in the summer of 2014.

In 2017 she re-branded her name from Eliza Doolittle to Eliza, and changed her sound.[21] On 12 December 2018, her album A Real Romantic was released. In 2022, Eliza released a couple of new singles, "Straight Talker"[22] and "Heat of the Moon" after signing[23][24] to [PIAS]'s Log Off/Different Recordings,[25][26] and a new album, A Sky Without Stars, was announced.