The daughter of successful songwriter Terry Gilkyson, Eliza is a third generation musician who grew up in Los Angeles knowing that her life would revolve around music. “I got into it for all the wrong reasons, more as a survival tool than anything else, but it proved to serve me more than I dared to imagine.” As a teenager, she recorded demos for her dad, who wrote folk music hits “Greenfields,” “Marianne,” and “Memories Are Made of This,” among others. “He would use me in the studio because I had a mature voice at an early age and would work for free,” laughs Eliza. Soon after, she was writing and recording her own material as well.
At the end of the sixties, she moved to New Mexico with likeminded souls, eventually raising a family, all the while developing a loyal fan base in the Southwest and Texas. She cut numerous records, including Pilgrims, released on Gold Castle Records in 1987.After a period in Europe working with Swiss composer/harpist Andreas Vollenweider, Eliza returned to the United States rel