Singer / songwriter Bev Zizzy has been part of the music scene in Saskatchewan, Canada for over four decades. Inspired by Joni Mitchel and Tracy Chapman, her music is informed by extensive life experience as an award winning language teacher, sultry jazz and blues singer, adventurous world traveler, devoted wife, mother, and lifelong yogi. She has released two albums and several EPs of original material, and has been recognized for her artistic contributions to her community with a YWCA Woman of Distinction in the Arts Award (2009).
Bev's stage debut was in her home city of Regina in 1982, singing Billie Holiday jazz and Delta blues classics accompanied by guitarist Bill Kinnear (B2 Blues). This introduction to the music scene earned the duet a place at the 14th Annual Regina Folk Festival (1983), playing alongside Canadian folk hero Valdy and blues guitar icon Colin James. She has also been lead vocalist for a rock band (Jambalay), played with a world rhythm djembe drum group (Cathedral Village Drum Circle), and performed as jazz lead vocalist for a decade (Round Midnight, Black Magic), performing at the Saskatchewan and Regina Jazz Festivals, as well as being a regular in the local nightclub scene.
Bev holds an M Ed (English), a B Ed (French) and a BA Hon (Women’s Studies). Multi-dimensional and multi-lingual, her artistic evolution continues, as she adds harmonica to her repertoire and music inspired by sacred Sanskrit mantras to her studies.
Bev's stage debut was in her home city of Regina in 1982, singing Billie Holiday jazz and Delta blues classics accompanied by guitarist Bill Kinnear (B2 Blues). This introduction to the music scene earned the duet a place at the 14th Annual Regina Folk Festival (1983), playing alongside Canadian folk hero Valdy and blues guitar icon Colin James. She has also been lead vocalist for a rock band (Jambalay), played with a world rhythm djembe drum group (Cathedral Village Drum Circle), and performed as jazz lead vocalist for a decade (Round Midnight, Black Magic), performing at the Saskatchewan and Regina Jazz Festivals, as well as being a regular in the local nightclub scene.
Bev holds an M Ed (English), a B Ed (French) and a BA Hon (Women’s Studies). Multi-dimensional and multi-lingual, her artistic evolution continues, as she adds harmonica to her repertoire and music inspired by sacred Sanskrit mantras to her studies.