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's single "

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" in 2014 to moderate success. She subsequently signed a recording contract with

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. Tiz released a second single called " Whistle (While You Work It)".

Career

In late 2012, she was signed to

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, and Warner/Chappell Publishing, and released three stand-alone singles, "Famous", "Heart" and "Red Cup". Shortly after parting ways with Lava/Republic in 2013, Tiz partnered with songwriting/production duo

. Tiz released a cover of Rock Mafia's song "

", which debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on 17 May 2014. Besides her own music, Tiz has also written hits for other artists such as

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, among others. Other co-writing credits include

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and High15 whose track 'No Drama' was performed at the 2019

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. Tiz has co-written and featured on a number of successful dance tracks including the 2016 single 'Samurai' with Canadian DJ and producer

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and the Martin Jensen edit of 'So We Go' with Lithuanian music producer Gaullin in 2020. Tiz is also a dolphin trainer. In May 2014, she was picked as

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's Artist of the Month and was featured on

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's ''

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'' show hosted by

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and

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, where she performed live his single "The Big Bang". Tiz released a follow-up single in 2015, "Whistle (While You Work It)". Tiz said in an interview that she wrote the song about a darker period in her life where she felt like nothing was going her way, but her brother was there to tell her to chin up, keep moving, and never give up. It was cowritten with

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and

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and was produced by

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. A music video for "Whistle (While You Work It)" was filmed and released by Syndrome Studio and director James Larese. The '' Xanadu''-like video combines live action with animation elements and shows Tiz springing to life from street art, then proceeding on an adventure with a crew of animated animal friends. the video has over 8 million views on YouTube. For '' The Sims 4: Get to Work'' expansion pack, Whistle was recorded in the fictional language 'Simlish'. Tiz is an avid animal lover and fan of

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's street art and has said in an interview, "This video comes from my love of graffiti artwork and takes inspiration from some of the greatest fairytales of all time."

Neeka

Tiz started the indie dance group Neeka in collaboration with Swedish songwriter Negin Djafari. The duo's first single " Following the Sun" was released with Tiz's brother's band Super-Hi (with Super-Hi members George Tizzard and Rick Parkhouse also being the Red Triangle production team). " Following the Sun" was released in October 2020 and received significant radio airplay, including being named as

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's 'Song of the Week' in 2021. In January 2021, the track charted in the top 40 radio chart in Germany and by 28 March 2022, the song by Super-Hi x Neeka had climbed to number 21 on the Australian ''ARIA Top 50 Singles'' chart.

Discography

Singles

Singles as part of Neeka

References

External links

"Whistle (While You Work It)" music video on YouTube
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tiz, Katy 1988 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) English women pop singers 21st-century English women singers 21st-century English singers