17 Facts About Isabella Summers

Isabella Summers is best known as the architect of the sound of the six-time Grammy nominated indie rock band Florence and the Machine.

When Isabella Summers was ten, her family moved to Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Isabella Summers moved to East Dulwich, back in London, where she would get a fine arts degree at Central Saint Martins.

Soon she was working with Dan Greenpeace on his 'All City Show' radio show on XFM London, an experience that led Isabella Summers to buy her first MPC which was installed at the cupboard of her shared flat.

Isabella Summers met Florence Welch through art school and DJ work, as Welch was attending the Camberwell College of Arts.

One day, as Isabella Summers got into a creative rut, which she described as getting "sick of boys telling me what to do", she thought of writing pop music with a woman, and invited Welch to make songs with her.

Isabella Summers had only thought of being a producer and songwriter on the project but ended up as the group's keyboardist, with her second gig being the 2007 Glastonbury Festival.

Isabella Summers has co-written and produced on Florence and the Machine's first three albums Lungs, Ceremonials and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.

Isabella Summers has written, produced and remixed tracks for artists including Beyonce, Juliette Lewis, Jennifer Hudson, Jasmine Thompson, Cara Delevingne, Chloe x Halle, Flux Pavilion, Rita Ora, Judith Hill, LP and The Game.

Isabella Summers had created the main title song "Was It Love" for the Sky Atlantic series Riviera, and provided her friend Sam Levinson the song "Rage" for his film Assassination Nation, when right after finishing the High as Hope Tour, that film's music supervisor Mary Ramos invited Isabella Summers for her first composing gig in a team-up with Mark Isham, scoring the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

In 2022 Isabella Summers scored Sony's 3000 Pictures and Netflix film Lady Chatterly's Lover, directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell.

In 2023 Summers scored the Apple TV+ adult animation series Strange Planet by Dan Harmon and Nathan W Pyle released on August 9,2023.

In 2023, Isabella Summers scored the soundtrack for the Focus Features film Lisa Frankenstein, directed by Zelda Williams released February 2024.

Isabella Summers scored the film Breathe, directed by Stefon Bristol and starring Jennifer Hudson, which was released in April 2024.

The performance expands on a composition Isabella Summers performed in Rome in May 2022 at the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio.

Furthermore Isabella Summers performed it a third time at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills in 2022 to a sold out audience.

Isabella Summers responded in music and spoken word to two paintings by Caravaggio 'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula' and 'Salome and the Head of John The Baptist'.