Elize Ryd is a singer, musician, composer as well as a songwriter. Her full name is Hanna Elise Isabell Maj Höstblomma Ryd.
Background
Elize Ryd was born on October 15, 1984, in Värnamo, Sweden. Elize was a daughter of musicians, her mother listened and performed many types of music including pop, punk and blues. Her father and brother loved metal and her sister loved musicals and grunge music. Elize started to sing at a very young age, she performed in public for the first time when she was 4 years old.
Education
At the age of 13 Ryd attended and won a talent show in Gothenburg as the youngest participant. The first price was a record deal, but since she hadn’t turned 15 yet she couldn’t receive the prize. But she got a scholarship for the most promising singer and a spot in a Musical called “Brödupploppet”, that was played 76 times at Exercishuset in Gothenburg. She then received another scholarship award in 2003 when she graduated from High School (a preliminary education for musical artists).
In 2007 Elize graduated from Performing Arts School in Gothenburg. She got the role as “Charity” in the musical Sweet Charity at Lorensbergsteatern as thesis.
Career
At the age of 16 Elize started to work extra as a backup singer in a recording studio outside of Gothenburg. She also sang in a girls group called Trinity at the Volvo Trucks Event and worked 3 years with On Stage (2009-2011) where she sang and danced behind Swedish and International artists at arenas around Sweden.
In 2003 she put her vocals on Falconers third and fourth album. Shortly after she sung the duet Fade Away on Dreamland’s debut album Future is Calling. In 2006 Elize met Olof Morck and his band Dragonland, he asked her to put her voice on Cassiopeia on his upcoming album called Astronomy. After that they became close friends. Elize and Olof worked together to record different material, write songs and also tour as guest vocalists for Kamelot, they then started to work on a project. They put out 3 demos on MySpace that quickly got recognition and a great response. This led to interest from managers and record labels, the group realized that they had created something unique together and decided to start a real band.
Elize has worked since 2010 as a touring vocalist for Kamelot. In 2012 she appeared on their album Silverthorn together with Alissa White Gluz on the song Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife), she also appeared on the tracks Veritas and Falling like the Fahrenheit.
In 2013, Ryd performed vocals in the album The Land of New Hope, from a new metal opera project by Timo Tolkki called Avalon, in which she is the main character. The album was released on 17 May 2013. She was also confirmed as one of the vocalists for the second album called Angels of the Apocalypse.
In the end of 2013, Ryd took part in the Raskasta Joulua project incorporating the sound of metal to Christmas carols. She sang the song "Julen är här" as a duet with Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica. She also joined the Raskasta Joulua tour for the final gigs. During that visit in Finland she performed on Finnish national television. There she sang Ave Maria together with Marco Hietala, the bassist from Nightwish. They sold over 20 000 copies of Raskasta Joulua and got platinum record from it. In 2014 she participated again to Raskasta Joulua recordings."Raknarok Juletide" with song "Christmas is here" which is English version from "Julen är här" also with Tony Kakko, and to "Raskasta Joulua 2", where she sang "Himlen i min famn" which is a cover of Carola Häggkvist. "Raskasta Joulua 2" sold over 20 000 copies and they also got platinum record from it.
Elize performed in Melodifestivalen 2015 together with Rickard Söderberg. Elize wrote the song One By One together with Jimmy Jansson, Sharon Vaughn and Karl-Ola Kjellholm. Ryd is featured in the new Gus G album 'Brand New Revolution', released on 24 July 2015. The song is called 'What Lies Below'.
In 2015 Elize became the face of Proactiv+ skincare program on Swedish Television SVT3 and SVT6. In October 2016, Amaranthe released their fourth studio album Maximalism . This took the band on tours around North America, Asia and Europe.
2017 continued with Elize and Amaranthe touring Europe and also make their first show in Brasil and also appear in Argentina with Delain and Tarja. 2018 started with a song Elize and Jonas Thander composed called Delirium, which was performed by Isabell Otrebus and entered into the final top 10 to compete to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest. Amaranthe released their 5th album, Helix the first with new band member Nils Molin on 19 October 2018.
Views
Quotations:
"Actually, I know AMARANTHE's and my fans out there are amazing people. I been touring over 4 years and got the honor to meet the most fantastic people; you know who you are and you know I love you. We, like most people on earth, share the same thoughts and have the same sight on life, I'm very glad because of that."
""Please if you notice that someone around you writes bad stuff to another on the Internet, remind them to think twice before posting it. And to those who are Internet haters, it is a crime in Sweden."
"I'm 100% against both Internet hate and women's oppression. We need to say NO as soon as we notice there are people out there continuing feeding it."
Personality
Elize Ryd is focused on her work rather than stuck in any controversy. She keeps her personal life in secret.
Physical Characteristics:
Elize Ryd has dark brown hair color, has a pair of attractive dark brown eyes, and a height of 5 feet 6 inches. She sings in the soprano range.