Bev Zizzy

Jazz vocalist, acoustic soul singer/songwriter & recording artist Bev Zizzy has been part of the music scene in Regina Canada, for over 4 decades. She is also an extensive global traveler, multi-linguist, award winning language teacher, and a yogi. ​A lifetime of devotion to yoga has now also shaped her musical interests which have come to align with the genre of sacred music from Eastern mystical traditions. The influence of mantra music is most apparent in her latest release I’m Already There ( Special Version), a musical exploration in which she reinvents a song she was introduced to many years ago, when she first heard the lyrics read in a eulogy at her daughter's farewell ceremony. They soon became the opening song in a series of concerts delivered on the anniversary dates of both her daughter's birthdays and departure days, over a period of ten years. Eighteen concerts later - coincidentally one for each year that her daughter was alive - she put the song to rest when she retired from the profession in 2013. But it unexpectedly returned to her recently after a serendipitous encounter with someone experiencing a similarly tragic loss. Rather than dismiss it, she took the song to the studio, reinterpreted the lyrics from a profoundly ethereal, hauntingly beautiful perspective - one offered as a gift from grief - and delivers them totally improvised, taking the listener on a profound 8 minute journey to walk with those who walk beside us now in silence.