Alyze Elyse

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Alyze Elyse
BornNorth Carolina
OriginNorth Carolina
Genres R&B, Hip hop
LabelsSoul City Entertainment

Alyze Elyse is an American screenwriter, songwriter, filmmaker and actress. [1]

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Career

Alyze Elyse is the co-owner of Soul City Films and owner and Executive Producer of Alyze Elyse Productions, an independent production company. She is also noted as one of the first African American independent female filmmakers known to garner over 100 million minutes streamed on Amazon Prime. [2]

Alyze Elyse was awarded a Lifetime and Achievement Award and inducted into the Women Songwriter's Hall of Fame. [3]

Filmography

Alyze Elyse has written, executive produced, co-directed and starred in a few of her projects: [4]

Music

She has singles ranked on Billboard and other charts. [5] [6] [7]

In 2017, she released her Billboard charting single U Got Me Trapped. [8]

Discography

Charted singles

TitleYearPeak chart positions
"Oooh..." [9] 200682
"Phone Talk" [10] 200676
"U Got Me Trapped"[ citation needed ]20173

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