Evan Giia

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EVAN GIIA
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Evan GIIA performing in Montréal, Quebec on November 8, 2019
Background information
Birth nameEvan Giarrusso
Genres
Occupation(s)Vocalist
Years active2016–present
Website www.evangiia.com

Evan Giarrusso, better known as EVAN GIIA [1] is a Brooklyn-based vocalist. [2] [3] Her first notable song was "Heat of The Moment" with music duo MEMBA, which was selected as the singles of the week by BBC Radio 1 in 2016. [4] [5] [6] [7] In September 2022, GIIA's Don't Let Me Let Go ( with Dillion Francis and Illenium) secured the number one position on US Dance Radio. [8]

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Career

EVAN GIIA was brought up in Hingham [1] and is an alumna of Berklee College of Music and has undergone training in opera singing. [9] [10] Her first single was "Heat of the Moment" in 2016. Her second single, "Brave" was listed by as the top single by Hype Machine in 2017. In 2018, she dropped "Westworld", one of her most popular songs. [11] In 2019, GIIA partnered with New York based duo MEMBA in their EP Saga-II, where she was the vocalist of the song "Walls Down". [12] [13] In November of the same year, her single "Sidelines" was released. [14] In February 2020, she dropped the single "Switch Off". [15] In April 2020, her single "Focus" was released for which she also was the songwriter. [16] In October 2020, GIIA teamed with Gorgon City in their single "Burning", which was premiered by Billboard Dance. [17] The song reached Billboard Dance Chart's position 7 and was two weeks in the peak. [18] In the same month, she also launched her solo, "tiny life". [9] In the end of 2020, she attended numerous concerts with music duo Odesza. [19] [20] [21] During early 2021, she did a US tour with MEMBA. [22] GIIA appeared in different music festivals like Elements Music Festival, Breakaway Music Festival etc. [23] [24] [25] [26]

Discography

Extended Plays

TitleDetails
ENDORPHINS UMG Recordings, Inc. (August 6, 2021)

Singles

As a lead artist

YearTitlePeak
chart
positions		Release Details
US
Dance
[17]
2017"Exhale"—Elysian Records
"Pull Up" (with MEMBA and TITUS)—
"Stepping Stones"—KnightVision
"Absolute Zero"—Self-Released
"Crumble" (with VOLO)—
2018"DRIP"—
"WESTWORLD"—Foreign Family Collective
"I DON'T LIKE UR FRIENDS"—
2019"WHAT U NEED?"—
"Walls Down" (with MEMBA)—
"For Aisha" (with MEMBA and Nooran Sisters)—ANTNNA
"Encore"—UMG Recordings, Inc.
"Sidelines"—
2020"Switch Off"—
"Focus"—
"What's your temperature?" (with MEMBA)—ANTNNA
"Burning" (with Gorgon City)7Universal Music Operations Limited
"Focus (Acoustic)"—UMG Recordings, Inc.
"tiny life"—
2021"Stay Up"—
"Mood Swings"—
"In Motion" (with Memba featuring Reo Cragun)—
2022"Blow The Roof" (with Louis the Child and Kasbo) [27] —Interscope Records
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released.
YearTitleRelease Details
2016"Heat of the Moment" (MEMBA featuring EVAN GIIA and Hoosh)Elysian Records
2017"Brave" (MEMBA featuring Dakk and EVAN GIIA)
"Replay" (Brisk featuring EVAN GIIA)Tribal Trap
2019"MEMBA – For Aisha (Featured in "The Sky Is Pink") featuring EVAN GIIA & Nooran Sisters
2021"Pockets" (Devault featuring EVAN GIIA)Ultra Records, LLC
"Messin' Me Up" [28] (What So Not featuring EVAN GIIA)Sweat It Out!
2022"Don't Let Me Let Go" (Dillon Francis and Illenium featuring EVAN GIIA)Astralwerks

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