An island singer-songwriter has made her musical debut after being treated for leukaemia.<\/p>\n
Originally from Jersey, Isabel Marsh, known as IZI, was given the life-threatening diagnosis in 2020 and underwent intensive treatment she says put her voice at risk.<\/p>\n
Now 25, she has released an upbeat pop song BAD, fulfilling a personal ambition having once feared she might never be able to follow her passion in music.<\/p>\n
Ms Marsh said: “I tried to start singing again and completely lost everything I had before. I really thought it was over.”<\/p>\n
Ms Marsh told BBC Radio Jersey: “There was a period when I was trying to get back into life and be normal again.”<\/p>\n
During her recovery, Ms Marsh grappled with the possibility of leaving music behind and considered becoming an astronomer, drawn by a lifelong fascination with space.<\/p>\n
In time however, she returned to her interest in music.<\/p>\n
Ms Marsh says enrolling in an online diploma course in music production gave her a different perspective: “Taking the pressure off singing helped me rediscover my passion.<\/p>\n
“I started songwriting for assessments, and slowly, my voice came back. I went back to singing lessons, and after that year, I thought, ‘Wait, maybe this is fun again.'”<\/p>\n
Now in remission and based in Manchester, Ms Marsh has some advice for others facing challenges of their own.<\/p>\n
“You need to give yourself grace. Be kind to yourself like you would to a friend. Our brains believe what we tell them, if we say we can’t do it, we won’t. But if we say we can, nothing can stop us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An island singer-songwriter has made her musical debut after being treated for leukaemia. Originally from Jersey, Isabel Marsh,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-86746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}