hometown: Westlake Village, CA
current town: Los Angeles, CA
music icon: Hayley Williams
favorite food: Sushi and a giant bowl of spaghetti
fun fact/secret: One time my 3rd grade teacher said my essay “knocked her socks off,” so she taught with no socks for the rest of the day.
bio: Isla June’s Jenna Maranga has never wanted to be pinned down. “Songwriting is having the freedom to be fluid and explore,” they say, and genre is more a buffet of options than a structure to fit inside. This sense of infinite possibility is at the forefront of their music, in the flit of the summery backbeats, the pulse of saturated guitars, the shimmer of synths, the grit and power of their vocals soaring through the topline. All of this conjures the feeling of flying down the LA freeways of Maranga’s childhood — a little bit carefree, a little bit angsty about the things that slow you down.

This is grunge-tinged pop music for people who grew up screaming along to emo bands in church basements, for the hot weirdos everyone was afraid to admit they had a crush on in high school. Their music is a rallying cry for self-acceptance, a universal invitation to join them in the pit.

As an artist and songwriter, their music has been widely featured on television for shows including Riverdale, Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word: Generation Q, Selling Sunset and more, as well as ad campaigns for Old Navy and AT&T.

Isla June’s music has been covered by press outlets including Billboard, Paste Magazine, Earmilk, and Buzzbands LA, and landed spots on various Spotify editorial playlists, amassing over 2 million streams across platforms.