REZZ
Isabelle Rezazadeh’s father was, reasonably enough, worried. It was 2013, and teenage Isabelle was out of high school, living with her parents on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and partying a lot, ditching her waitressing shifts at the Hard Rock Cafe to go to music festivals with her friends. When home, she stayed in the basement, reading — self-help books, essays on psychology, the dictionary. “My dad literally thought I was going to end up being, like, a basement rat that didn’t leave the room,” she says.
Those fears only escalated later that year, when Rezazadeh spent all of her waitressing money to fly to Los Angeles for electronic music festival Day of the Dead. Deadmau5 was headlining, and watching his set, a vision of her future…
