At the age of 19, she returned to Rio de Janeiro and continued with that activity here as well. In 2009, at the age of eighteen, she attended the advertising course at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), graduating in 2013 and then began working as a video editor. In 2015, in parallel, she created a channel on YouTube and began posting music cover videos. At the end of 2017, she was the main attraction of Pré-Reveillon POPline. On 3 February 2018, she participated in the Planeta Atlântida festival. Her album
Dona de Mim was ranked as the 41st best Brazilian album of 2018 by the Brazilian edition of
Rolling Stone magazine and among the 25 best Brazilian albums of the first half of 2018 by the
São Paulo Association of Art Critics. In May 2021, Iza was named one of
Time Magazine's
Next Generation Leaders. On 2 September 2022, Iza released a three-song EP that makes up her upcoming album. Named Três, the project becomes a promotion for the singer's performance on the main stage of Rock in Rio 2022, who became the first black Brazilian singer to perform on the main stage. Iza revealed that in February 2023 she scrapped an album that was fully done. With that, the artist produced a new album in about 5 months. The first single from the album "Fé nas Malucas" in collaboration with MC Carol was released on 27 July 2023 On July 30, the release date of the album
AFRODHIT was announced, which was released on 3 August 2023, with 13 new tracks. ==Personal life==