She’s grown from an aggressive young tomboy to a confident woman and artist, someone who can feel at ease wearing flowers in her hair and performing to a crowd of thousands at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Her development as a musician has had a direct influence on her recent desire to embrace her femininity.

“I’m about to turn twenty-one, I just bought myself my first pair of pumps,” she laughs, “And I’m loving it!” When she took the plunge into becoming a serious, full-time musician, she made strides by recording and releasing a self-distributed solo EP, “The Last-Minute EP,” and signed up for her very first professional photo spread. “I think it was after the photoshoot,” she confesses, that she really felt comfortable being feminine for the first time. “They put makeup on me, dressed me in pretty stuff, and put my hair up. And I was like, ‘Damn, Isis! You’re cute as hell!’” She laughs. Somewhere between the extreme of the female sexual object and the gritty tough tomboy, she found her own happy medium.