Alex Isley
Alex Isley's forte is dreamy, left-of-center R&B imbued with soul. The singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer has released independent solo projects including a handful of EPs, the full-lengths Dreams in Analog (2013) and L U X U R Y (2015), and numerous singles highlighted by the Jack Dine collaboration "Good & Plenty" (2020). Additionally, Isley has excelled as a featured artist and background vocalist heard on songs by Scarface, Kendrick Lamar, and PJ Morton, among other artists spanning rap, jazz, and pop.
A longtime Los Angeles native born in Westwood, New Jersey, Isley is the daughter of the Isley Brothers' Ernie Isley. Classically trained by her maternal grandmother, an opera singer, Isley studied jazz theory and performance at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and continued at UCLA, where she finished with a degree in jazz studies. In 2012, she debuted with Love/Art Memoirs, an EP that introduced her predominantly mellow if strongly expressive approach to R&B. The full-length Dreams in Analog was out the next year with a guest appearance from We Are King's Paris Strother. Another album, L U X U R Y, sweetened by an intro with a string section Isley arranged, arrived at the tail end of 2015. By that point, Isley had an even lengthier list of recordings to which she had contributed in various supporting roles. These included Robin Thicke's Paula, Scarface's Deeply Rooted, and Bryson Tiller's T R A P S O U L. More notably, Isley fronted the Decoders' cover of Chaka Khan's "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me," and she sang background (uncredited) on Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning "These Walls."
Isley put out a couple singles and was heard on PJ Morton's The Piano Album before she released her next two EPs, The Beauty of Everything, Pt. 1 and The Beauty of Everything, Pt. 2, in 2018 and 2019. During the latter year, Isley appeared on Tank and the Bangas' Green Balloon, and with Jack Dine recorded another EP, Wilton. Isley was busier still in 2020. She released two of her best-known slow jams, "Gone" and the Masego-assisted "Good & Plenty" (both made with Dine), appeared on the season four soundtrack of Insecure (as the featured artist on Cautious Clay's "Reaching"), and contributed to a few projects led by "These Walls" producer Terrace Martin, such as Dinner Party: Dessert. The next year brought a remix of "Good & Plenty" with an appearance from Lucky Daye.
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18 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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I Left My Heart In Ladera
Soul - Editado por BMG Rights Management (US) LLC el 20/10/2023
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Good & Plenty
Lucky Daye, Masego, Alex Isley
Soul - Editado por Isley & Dine Records, Lucky Daye appears courtesy of Keep Cool - RCA Records el 17/03/2021
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People Get Ready (From "I Can't Breathe / Music For the Movement")
R&B - Editado por Hollywood Records el 16/10/2020
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Still Wonder (feat. Robert Glasper)
Soul - Editado por 629937 Records DK2 el 19/11/2021
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I WANT YOU BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW...
Rory, Shelley FKA DRAM, Alex Isley
Soul - Editado por Avant Garden el 12/07/2022
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The Beauty of Everything, Pt. 2
Soul - Editado por Indie el 3/05/2019
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