Isabella Summers

Biography:

Musician, songwriter/producer, and film composer Isabella Janet Florentina Summers  was born on October 31, 1980 and is an English Emmy nominee. Most famously, she created the sound for the indie rock group Florence and the Machine, which has been nominated for six Grammys. Before switching from mainstream music to film and television composition, Summers spent 14 years writing, producing, touring, and creating her cinematic sound.

Summers spent her first nine years of life in London’s Hackney. Summers’ family relocated to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, when she was ten. Summers took piano lessons, went to Woodbridge School, and developed a passion for music there. She attributes some of this to her father’s mixtapes, which featured “a very eclectic mixture of everything and anything from Beethoven to Bob Dylan, rarities, poetry, even the Shipping forecast.” Her favorite music was hip-hop, as evidenced by the cassettes she received from her neighbors that included Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle (1993) and Gravediggaz’s 6 Feet Deep (1994); she also spent evenings with fishermen’s kids “who smoked loads of marijuana and listened to hard American rap.”