Ivy Adara from a land down under now based in LA.

Ivy now goes by Kayla Rae Haywood.

IVY wrote her first song at the age of 7 on a family holiday and has been a prolific writer ever since.

At the age of 12 she won the Tamworth Country Music Festival songwriters award. She then went on to write for film academy feature films throughout high school and in 2011 she wrote and recoded a charity single ‘The Day’ for Compassion Australia.

Ivy has over 40 Million combined streams on Spotify as a songwriter and has collaborated with hit producers such as J Kash (Maroon 5, Charlie Push), Jonas Jeberg (Fifth Harmony, Jason Derulo, Demi Lovato), Captain Cuts (Halsey, The Chainsmokers) Chris DeStefano (Carrie Underwood), The Futuristics (Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez) and more.

In November 2017 Ivy Adara released her debut single "Famous", her second single "Currency" was released April 2018 and her third single Rebels was released August. Famous & Currency have both accumulated over 6 millions spins and Ivy has substantial play listing including NMF.

Ivy released her debut EP on the 5th of October including 2 new songs Callgirl and Lies. On this record she collaborated with producers Cirkut (The Weekend, Rihanna, Katy Perry) Jon Hume (Evermore, JP Cooper, Sofi Tukker, Guy Sebastian) & Lindsey Jackson (Tori Kelly, Jessica Mauboy).

Whilst working on her first record, she co-wrote the following along the way:

5x Aria Nominated (Including Song Of The Year), No. 1 iTunes double platinum selling "Fallin" by Jessica Mauboy

"When I Met You" Jessica Mauboy

"Obsessed" Maggie Linddeman

"Everybody Hurts" The Him ft Ivy Adara

X Factor winner & Eurovision runner up Dami Im "Beautiful" & "Let Go" #2 Australian ARIA charts

"Forever Young"X factor winner Marlisa

“I’ll Be Loving You” Valerie

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