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| Birth name | Aziya Satchmo Masai Aldridge-Moore |
| Born | December 11,2000 Islington, London, England |
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| Years active | 2017–present |
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| Website | www |
Aziya Satchmo Masai Aldridge-Moore (born 2000) [1] is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. She has released two EPs We Speak of Tides (2021) and Lonely Castles (2023), and a mixtape BAMBI (2024).
Aldridge-Moore was born to an English father, a DJ, and a Barbadian mother [2] and grew up in Hackney, East London. She is related to the Aldridge family. [3] Aldridge-Moore attended the BRIT School for sixth form. [4]
Aldridge-Moore began her career as a model. She featured in Tatler in 2017 and 2019. [3] [5] Also in 2017, she uploaded the first song she wrote titled "Teen Face" to SoundCloud. [6]
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Aldridge-Moore gained prominence online through covers of songs she posted on Instagram and other social media platforms. She was discovered by H.E.R., who invited Aldridge-Moore to play on a livestream of over 300 thousand viewers. [7] In 2021, Aldridge-Moore released her debut EP We Speak of Tides via Osmo-sis, [8] which had come about during lockdown. [9] The EP's title compares relationships to water. [10] She also released the singles "Slip!", which Olivia Swash of The Line of Best Fit called a "knockout debut", [11] "Heaven for Me", [12] and "Blood". [13] In August, she was a select artist at BBC Music Introducing alongside The Lathums and Pixey. [14]
In April 2022, Aldridge-Moore opened for The Vaccines [15] on tour with Black Honey. She performed at Lollapalooza Stockholm and Victorious Festival that summer. [16] In the autumn, she supported The Amazons and Nova Twins on tour [17] and Florence + the Machine for their two O2 Arena concerts. [18]
After performing at the 2023 Great Escape Festival, [19] Aldridge-Moore had her first headline dates. She then featured at Reeperbahn Festival, [20] Beyond the Music Festival, [21] and Live at Leeds. [22] That September, she released her second EP Lonely Castles, [23] accompanied by the singles "atomic", [24] "chain", [25] and "wundagirl", named after producer WondaGurl, in the lead up to its release. [26] At the end of 2023, Aldridge-Moore was named one to watch in 2024 by The Independent . [27]
In April 2024, she supported HotWax on their UK tour. [28] and released the single "party's over". [29] She appeared at the Oberkampf Music Festival in Paris, the Dot to Dot Festival, [30] Yungblud's BludFest, [31] Reading and Leeds on the BBC Music Introducing stage, [32] [33] Night Currents Festival, [34] and Cardiff's Sŵn on the DIY stage. [35] [36] She also had a gig with Charly Bliss in London. [37]
Aldridge-Moore signed with Atlantic Records UK (part of Warner Music Group (WMG), through which she released a 10-track mixtape titled BAMBI in November 2024. [38] In addition to "party's over", further singles from the mixtape included "crush (tom verlaine)" [39] and "call my name (lux lisbon)", the latter inspired by Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides ; [40] she also shared "bbydoll" ahead of the mixtape. [41] Shortly after the release of BAMBI, Aldridge-Moore supported Griff on her UK tour. [42]
While Aldridge-Moore was growing up, her parents played a wide array of genres in the household, "from Patti Smith to The Cure to Wu-Tang to OutKast". [30] She recalls being drawn towards the guitar-based sounds of System of a Down, No Doubt, Green Day and more. [7] This lent itself an "emo phase" in her youth. Encouraged by her mother, who pointed towards figures such as Stevie Nicks and Prince, Aldridge-Moore took up guitar. [7]
As she switched from acoustic to electronic, Aldridge-Moore listened to Led Zeppelin and then Ebo Taylor and CAN. [43] She came to admire a number of women in rock, including Viv Albertine of The Slits, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and June Millington of Fanny. [44] In addition, Aldridge-Moore was shaped by London's electronic jazz, punk, and indie scenes, naming Steam Down and ALASKALASKA as local examples. [45]
Aldridge-Moore's debut EP We Speak of Tides was influenced by Wolf Alice, Alanis Morissette, Pvris, and The Kills, [7] The Stone Roses, PJ Harvey [46] as well as Tame Impala and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She listened to "Rich" by the latter while producing the track "Blood". [43] Moving onto her second EP Lonely Castles, she drew upon The Cure, New Order, and Eyedress [47] in addition to Santigold and Blondie. [48]
| Year | Title | Director |
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| 2021 | "Slip!" | Libby Burke Wilde |
| "Heaven for Me" | Thomas James | |
| "Blood" | ||
| "Marathon" | Aziya and Jack Durman | |
| 2022 | "girl meets world (demo)" | Aziya and Jody Evans |
| 2023 | "atomic" | |
| "chain" | Harry Steel (Haunted Mattress) | |
| "wundagirl" | ||
| 2024 | "party's over" | |
| "crush (tom verlaine)" | Isabelle Eyres | |
| "call my name (lux lisbon)" | Deadhorses | |
| "bbydoll" | ||
| "bambi" | ||
| 2025 | "diamonds" | |