Szilva
(8:20) Szilva is a female recording artist, performer,songwriter and music producer from Melbourne, Australia. She is a first generation Australian native with a Hungarian family heritage from both sides of her parents.
Through a vigorous course of trial and error, Szilva wrote, produced and recorded her first solo album on her own in her home studio in Melbourne.
When it comes to influences, Szilva has always been attracted to revolutionary artists, singers, and bands that have stepped outside the box and branded a new path into the world of music. Artists of this caliber include Michael Jackson, Prince, The Black Eyed Peas, Evanescence, Nine Inch Nails, and Rage Against the Machine. As she puts it, “I think it’s such a beautiful thing to see how music cycles and reinvents itself over time. As an artist, it’s my intention to open doors to new styles and create my own path in the changing music industry today.”
Szilva is a classically trained vocalist, and has been known to create combinations of melodic patterns in her songs, which is the result of her discovery and study of many different styles of music throughout her life. Traces of eastern, jazz, and classical, are just some of the styles of music that are highly evident in the evolution of Szilva’s sound.
Szilva is now based in Los Angeles, California and has performed all over the Southern California area, the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and music industry showcases. She has also been a featured artist on radio interviews and public access television. Szilva won the Semi Finals of the Emergenza Music Festival (Los Angeles Division), amongst a dozen LA bands who were chosen for the first round of the competition. Szilva was also the only female artist voted into the Grand Finals of the 2007 MVT music video competition, out of the 100,000s of eligible bands on myspace.
In late 2008, Szilva’s song “Till We Meet Again” climbed to number 4 for the weekly Top 20 on SongBox in Sweden. Szilva has also produced music for videos featured on Rollingstone.com and Usmagazine.com, including:
• The 2008 MTV VMA’s Red Carpet
• Up All Night with Amy Winehouse
• Dancing with the Stars: Season 8 Sneak Peak
• US Weekly’s Style Edition w/ Hilary Duff, Taylor Swift, & Lauren Conrad
In February of 2009 Szilva finished a music video for her latest single, “Own Little World.”
Today, Szilva continues to expand her multi-faceted career, working with internationally renown producers including, Chris Landon, who has written and produced music for Universal, Disney, and legendary female vocalist, Taylor Dayne. With a loyal international fan-base of over 40,000 supporters across the globe, Szilva is well into writing her next album as she prepares for a 2010 World Tour.
