S Z I LVA is a female recording artist, songwriter & music producer born in Melbourne, Australia. She is a first generation Australian native with a Hungarian family heritage. Szilva was set on her music career aspirations from an early age when she quickly discovered her natural vocal talent and began writing her own songs and lyrics. Throughout her childhood, Szilvas’ hunger to pursue a career in music accelerated and led her to attend Monash University where she was accepted to study a Bachelor of Music. Szilva also studied ‘Jazz and Improvisation’ at Box Hill College of Music, After performing live shows throughout Melbourne, including the world famous “Crown Casino,” Szilva experienced her first taste of National radio airplay on FOX FM. Szilva was selected as a winner of the “Nescafe Big Break,” a nationwide competition that 1000s of talented young Australians compete in annually. Hungry to move forward, Szilva branched off into a solo career, and taught herself music production through a vigorous course of trial and error. Szilva wrote, produced and recorded her first solo album. Szilva then took a leap across the oceans to Los Angeles to pursue her career in music and promote her new record. While abroad, Szilva’s music video for “Own Little World” was broadcasted throughout Australia and New Zealand on National television. Soon after planting her feet in
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California, Szilva won the Los Angeles Semi Finals of the Emergenza Music Festival and performed live in Austin.TX at the South by Southwest Music Festival.Szilva has been creating music in the studio with multi-platinum award winning writer/producer Chris Landon. Together they have created a library of songs and have formed the music production company, “222 music”, writing songs of all genres and licensing them to artists, movies, and commercials. Several of their songs have been licensed to videos on Rollingstone.com and Usmagazine.com, as well as several independent feature films. As Szilva puts it, “I think it’s so beautiful to see how music cycles and reinvents itself over time. As an artist, it is my intention to open doors and think outside the box to create my own path in the evolving music industry today.”
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