Diane Izzo dead at age 43; songwriter extraordinaire
Diane Izzo debuted in 1999 with one of the best singer-songwriter albums ever out of Chicago, “One.” She never officially followed it up, though she continued to record prolifically and was working on an ambitious movie project when she died Friday of cancer in Albuquerque, N.M.
Izzo, 43, was surrounded by family and friends when she died. Her partner, Marco Zas, said that only days earlier she was on the phone with her old producer, Brad Wood, scheduling a meeting with him in March to begin working on her trove of unreleased recordings.
“She knew she didn’t have much time, maybe a year with treatment, but she wanted to use the time she had left to work on music,” Zas said.
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