Amanda Abizaid 'Be In Love' EP will be available for purchase on October 11th, 2011.
This week’s Billboard Pro Featured Artist, Amanda Abizaid is a jill-of-all-trades. Perhaps best known for her contribution to Paramount’s “The 4400,” for which she sang the theme song, she’s also modeled on runways around the world and acted in a number of independent films. But music nevertheless remains this singer-songwriter’s raison d’être; after all, it’s a deep-rooted zeal: from a young age, the influence of Abizaid’s four older sisters held forceful sway over her.
“I grew up in Lebanon originally, so we were influenced by American and British music,” Abizaid says. “[My sisters] would use me as the guinea pig to sing difficult harmony parts, so I got really got at harmonies and had a lot of fun singing with them. It was obvious to me at a young age that this was my passion and that I had a voice that I really felt like in my gut that this is what I was meant to do. I just ended up being the only one who really pursued it.”
Abizaid moved to the United States at 10 years old and currently resides in Los Angeles, where she is known within the musical community for lending her talents to a number of TV and film productions, including the “4400″ theme, “A Place in Time.”
“That’s really where I got a lot of attention from fans around the world, and that’s really where I got my name out there,” Abizaid says. “Since then, people knew about me around town and started asking me, ‘Would you write the theme song for our film?’”
That’s how much of Abizaid’s career has gone since. After “The 4400”’s premiere in 2004, Abizaid has also lent her vocals to, among others, “One Tree Hill,” “Smallville” and the Lifetime movie “Odd Girl Out.” According to Abizaid, the various TV and film spots have helped further her career, saying that “her storytelling in the writing is very visual,” which lends itself to impact onscreen.
Currently, Abizaid is finishing up work on a new EP recorded with a slew of names, including producer Drew Bertrand, Grammy-nominated songwriter Harriet Schock, Emmy-winning composer Alex Wurman and trumpeter Bill Ortiz of Santana fame. The as-of-yet-unnamed EP is scheduled to drop September 20.
In addition, the singer-songwriter travels to Florida this summer to write a song and shoot a video in support of the dwindling wild mustang population there. She will also host World Music Night at Los Angeles’s M-Bar every third Wednesday of the month starting July 20 – the proceeds of which will help benefit New Orleans’s Make it Right NOLA foundation.
“I like to help other people through my music,” says Abizaid. “I’ve always done that; coming from Lebanon, that’s what I always wanted to do. I wanted to do something bigger than just me because I saw a lot of tragedy growing up. Through my music, I hope to reach people and inspire them to make their lives great.”
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