Meet Isabella Erardi

Isabella’s music is a double edged sword: a comforting light in the darkness, but the hard truth in a world full of beautiful lies. You don’t know which side you get until you press play.

Since entering the music sphere with her Throne Room EP, Isabella has aimed to write music that aligns with God and resonates with people from ALL walks of life: and that means balancing the constant tension between truth and love, hope and harsh reality. God Made You By Hand was her first attempt at this- a song that addresses the depression epidemic through the story of a family friend who took her life. The song went viral on YouTube and TikTok shortly after its release, with thousands of comments from around the world on how the song had saved lives. This inspired an entire career characterized by bold, raw lyricism that introduces perspectives of YHWH and life her listeners may have never considered before.

“I was drowning in one of my worst days…I was feeling totally unworthy of life and love… every day I fight to love myself and believe I'm beautiful and good enough and, actually, I was winning the fight. I was starting to feel... enough until today… Inside, I just wanted to die, when I found your song, and it was everything I needed to hear. I'm not really good at explaining things, but, what I can say is that I felt loved, especially in that part "don't think for a second that you don't matter", I could feel that I matter to God. He loves me and this is what I need to survive. Thank you so much for your beautiful song! God bless You!”

“In my room, again, asking God for help, [feeling] enslaved by [my] own mind... Earlier I said to God, ‘I can’t stand to live anymore… I prefer to die’ ...Then in my room, kneeling praying once more to God, and with a confused heart, I went on YouTube and started scrolling. I asked, ‘God, send me a song, please’ ...And this song comes, saying exactly what I go through and that he loves me, that I am the work of his hands, so [now] I do not think things that I have thought, and [I know] that he cares ...I do not deserve this love, GLORY TO GOD”

“Wow ... I don't even know what to say about it, this song touched my heart, I cried a lot, I'm going through such difficult things, every day I wake up hoping that the day will end at once because it's so difficult to fight for life, I can't take it anymore, This song made me reflect so much about life and the Lord Jesus, I don't understand how he can love me so much, I love him so much”

-Fan responses to Isabella’s music

Isabella decided on her music career at 6 years old and hasn’t wavered from her decision since.

At 14, she and her family moved from her hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Southern California to attend Orange County School of Performing Arts. She flourished at OCSA, earning showcases and solo performances normally reserved for upperclassmen. At 14 she was discovered by an agent and auditioned for Capitol Records. From there she was sent to an artist development company where she was asked if she had ever thought about doing Christian music.

Initially being opposed to the idea, an encounter with God the week before her senior year of high school completely changed the trajectory of her life. Despite a 4.4 GPA and the ability to attend any college she wanted, she left OCSA and finished her degree online to write music for the LORD. But the music that came forward was something hardly recognizable to popular CCM. See her song, Judgement Day, for reference.

Isabella’s talent caught the attention of Grammy award-winning producer Phil Allen and they started making music. In late 2019, she released God Made You By Hand with no marketing other than social media posts. Soon after, she released her first EP, Throne Room, in March of 2020. A week later, the world shut down.

Despite the terrible timing and nonexistent budget, God Made You By Hand went viral on YouTube. The video topped 500,000 views before the channel that reposted it mysteriously wiped all of its content. Then the song went viral on TikTok via an influencer she’d never met, adding another half a million views to the song’s track record. Covers of her music, even some translated into foreign languages, started pouring in across social media. The vast amount of reposting and recreation left many confused on who the original artist was, but those that did find her own platforms gave Isabella a strong beginning a fiercely loyal and supportive fan base. She was flooded with thousands of comments on how her music was literally being used to save lives.

In the Summer of 2021, she finished her first tour with the Extreme Tour, an organization that takes uplifting concerts to poverty and crime-ridden areas around the US.

Today, Isabella is the founder and owner of Bloom Music Collective, a concert for undiscovered music. She aims to give indie artists a platform based off talent and not followers, normalize fair pay for performers, and cultivate a culture in the music scene that places a higher value on local, undiscovered talent.