With a freshly realized frontal lobe and a near decade in the music industry in hand, Dizzy Fae is ready for her first festival performance at ACL Weekend Two. Building an intentional, genre-fluid foundation and trusting her own growth is top of mind for the Gen Z hip-hop artist.
“I’m constantly evolving. I’m constantly a student and I enjoy being a student,” says Dizzy.
“I’m very grateful for the time that I’ve had in the industry. I made my first song when I was 16. I’ve always been the type of artist to just make something and put it out because I’ve always understood for myself [that] this is a gift that God is giving me.”
“I’m really building the foundation of what things are important to me.”
Dizzy Fae
Across two full-length mixtapes and a sequence of video-ready singles, Dizzy Fae’s discography is a tour through pop and hip-hop history. As a classically trained opera and jazz singer – she draws her name from an early love for trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie – the Minnesota-born artist summons many R&B greats in her vocal performance, from Janet Jackson to Solange. Tracks like “Blush” call to mind the playfully fluid eroticism of Janelle Monáe while “Body Move” grooves like an Aaliyah remix, and “Try” intones a country twang à la Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. Her 2024 EP, Are We There Yet?, sways with Seventies melodies and snaps with a contemporarily coy lyricism. Dizzy keeps trodding along the path, looking for her voice in a post-genre landscape.
“Once I started making more and more music and singing and getting into harmonies and getting into technique, it led me to this place of R&B,” she explains. “I started discovering my own thing and I feel like my EP Are We There Yet? really emphasizes my growth.”
Her writing – at times lovey-dovey confessional, cool girl clever at others – casually owns her queer identity and is confidently reflective of her aesthetic exploration. Growing up in the land of Prince and in a generation of internet-marketed music makers, Dizzy is comfortable stepping into herself “as an entire entity, brand, and avatar.”
“I’m really building the foundation of what things are important to me,” the artist says, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and patience, “when it comes to navigating how to continue to be creative and how to continue to be a source of healing in this world through my music and who I am.”
Dizzy Fae
Saturday (Weekend Two only), 3:15pm, BMI stage
This article appears in October 3 • 2025.