Iliana Eve | |
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| Born | June 15, 2002 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, hip hop, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | singer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Website | ilianaeve |
Iliana Eve is an American singer-songwriter who was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] [2] She got her professional start in the music industry with a single that was released through Snoop Dogg's record label Doggy Style Records. [3] [4] TMZ released "Kylie's Daddy", Iliana's collaboration with 22 Savage (aka Funny Mike) and it went viral. [5] [6] She performed a rendition of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" for the album, Jazz (Deluxe) by Smith and Hay that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Charts. [7] [8] DJ Whoo Kid and Ranna Royce remixed Iliana's "Can't Help Falling in Love" and some of her other songs and included them on the album The Whoodlum Ball that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers Chart and No. 156 on the Billboard Top 200. [9] [10]
In 2016, Iliana Eve was 14 years old when she collaborated with Heebz Street for the song "Letters" that premiered on Billboard and was released through Snoop Dogg's record label. [11] She followed that up with "Long Damn Time", a song she wrote with Kanye West's songwriter Cyhi The Prynce. [12] [13] She's featured on Kxng Crooked's "Split Paths" [14] and "Lost Souls" with Nitty Scott and Pulse gay nightclub shooting survivor Patience Carter. [15] "Lost Souls" was released through Billboard on the six-month anniversary of the Orlando nightclub shooting. The remix "49 Lives: Lost Souls" was released on the one year anniversary of the massacre. [16] The teenager received some notoriety for her song "Kylie's Daddy" about reality star Kylie Jenner. [17] [18] She performed on "Daddy's Little Girl" with Inspectah Deck from Wu Tang Clan. [19]
She recorded "Mommy", a song about child molestation, with Jamaican record producer Kemar McGregor. [20] [21] The single is partly inspired by Korn's song "Daddy" which addresses similar issues. [22] She stated to Entrepreneur Magazine that "recording Mommy was a painful experience of reliving the nightmares and vocalizing them. The lyric that really hit me is 'the long showers I take that won't wash away the memories'. I'm hoping this song can make a difference, maybe even ease some pain that you are not alone." The song is being released on FM Records, an industry leader in pop-reggae music. [22] At 14, Iliana started her own record label to raise awareness about child abuse. [23] She featured on "Too Ashamed" a song by Kxng Crooked that deals with his alcohol and substance abuse. [24] HipHopDX premiered Iliana's single "All Alone" with frequent Lil Yachty collaborator Kevin Pollari. [25] She collaborated with Slaughterhouse on "Almost Paradise", a remix of the hit song from the Footloose Soundtrack released in 1984. [26] [27] The single "Almost Paradise" was No. 28 on the Spotify Charts in Canada. [28] Most of her songs and collaborations appear on the compilation album The Sins of A Father Playlist [29] and the mixtape "Daddy Issues". [30]
In January 2018, Iliana performed on the single "Indiana" featuring Cyhi The Prynce [31] and she's a producer on Riff Raff's "Jazzmine". [32] During the last week of October her collaboration with Yung Bleu "Message in the Bottle" was in XXL Magazine's "Bangers This Week" [33] after premiering on HipHopDX. [34] In November, "Message in the Bottle" and her other single "Love You Goodbye" featuring T-Rell was released for the project Jail Tattoos. [35] [36]
Iliana Eve was 15 years old on April 20, 2017, when she was a victim in a violent home invasion with her father Jonathan Hay in Louisville, Kentucky. [37] The crime was allegedly setup by her former neighbor. [38] Three suspects were indicted on kidnapping and robbery charges. [39] Iliana met her biological grandparents for the first time with news reporter Angie Fenton from Oxygen's "Finding My Father" on a TV special. [40] Iliana wrote "Waiting" about her biological grandmother that ended up being the last song United Nations honorary appointee Marsha Moyo ever recorded. [41] [42]