Park West
Isabel Dumaa
The way she tells it, Isabel Dumaa doesn’t remember finding music so much as the music finding her. Born and raised in San Francisco, Dumaa was “humming and trilling before she could talk” and pursuing a career making authentic, feminine, story-driven pop shortly thereafter. Her innate talent and desire was met with nothing but the most profound support from Dumaa’s moms, who schlepped her to chorus classes, summer camps, and singing competitions all across the country. Their insistence on taking her artistic ambitions seriously was an invaluable boon to Dumaa’s confidence and provided an early lesson in trusting one’s gut.
With her new album, Reverie, Dumaa hopes fans hear their own experiences reflected. She knows “these are uncomfortable emotions…but I do want to feel them because that’s a part of living”. While the songs may be specific to a certain time in her life, its lessons, she hopes, are eternal. Dumaa says, “I'm not in high school, I'm not in college. But I am still just a young woman encountering the world. And I think that I'm continuing to learn that.”
