Isabel Custer Edwards

Isabel was born to a Swiss-American father and Chilean mother in Peru, where her grandmother sang her boleros and Italian songs with her Spanish guitar. Growing up in Miami, she studied musical theater and dance. At age 15, she began training in bel canto, singing the classical mezzo-soprano "breeches" repertoire in opera. She studied filmmaking at New York University and spent many years traveling, doing volunteer aid work, working on film productions and going on pilgrimages to holy sites all over the world until one day in 2007, she suddenly heard "songs out of nowhere." At that point, she began to write music and lyrics. In 2012, while living in Paris, she completed her first 4-track EP entitled simply “Isabela - Extended Play” with the tracks “Gentle Man”, “Movie Blues”, “Mer” and “Girl w/ No Country”. The video for “Gentle Man” was shot on the Seine in Paris and the video for "Mer" in Paracas, Peru and in Easter Island. She subsequently released “Gentle Man" and “Mer” on iTunes. In search of her roots, she moved to Chile in 2013. In 2014, in Santiago, Chile, she started a non-profit association that gives adapted tricycles to special needs children, Fundación Beneciclo. In 2015, she released her first short film that she wrote, produced and directed entitled "Night of the Living Data" all shot on location in Los Angeles. The film is a dark comedy about technology & relationships. In January 2016, she released "Girl w/ No Country": her début album that contains each song as a tribute to many places she's loved including Brazil, Argentina, Easter Island and of course the US. She has lived in Sri Lanka, the US, China, France, England and currently lives in Chile, where she collaborated with some of the best local musicians and producers to make this eclectic and poetic compendium of musical memories.