singer-songwriter.

While Eliza's musical story began as a young child with piano lessons, it was not until her first year of college in 2020 that songwriting became a serious pursuit. As other inspirations in art and writing forms faded, she turned to her guitar and finally started learning to play. It wasn't long until original songs slowly began to take shape. Fragments of lyrics scribbled in the margins of an old notebook. A small bit of melody repeated over and over in her mind in class so she'd remember it as soon as she had a chance to record. She taught herself how to produce her own music independently on GarageBand, often tinkering with instrumental tracks or recording until three in the morning when the house was quiet.

As common threads and themes made themselves known, the songs turned into homes for memories, for exploring the mental health challenges that characterized that first year in college and attempting to track down their origins. The moment that the song "Ghost Town" was written, these themes suddenly crystallized into a full concept album - what if each song haunted a house in an imaginary abandoned ghost town, with creaky swing-sets and a crumbling school building and a graveyard for all of the old selves left behind. Soon enough, the small bits of song took their true form as the fifteen tracks on Eliza's debut album, Ghost Town, recorded and completed during a gap year in 2021-2022. The cover art, a blurry photograph of fallen autumn leaves on the driveway, is one that Eliza had taken accidentally at home in 2017 and which she felt captured the mood and aesthetic of the album perfectly - if looked at in a particular way, the leaves almost look like they could be ghosts dancing. 

Eliza released Ghost Town independently in January 2023. She is currently writing her second album.