Asa Aziz’s name seems to have chosen her path for her. It means “healer” in several languages, which makes sense — the artist now known as Asa Ace amplifies music’s restorative powers.
Ace had begun a career as a respiratory therapist and had been happy with her choice until around the COVID lockdown. She took her chaotic, dour feelings and transmuted them, spinning them into a carefully woven multilayered DJ set. Her music was as different as her motives: Asa Ace was trying to heal herself at that moment and realized that she could also do this to help others.
It was then that her sound-healing path solidified. Ace started doing music full-time, and by the time the world opened fully again, she was playing live and had developed her signature style. When she recorded her first EP, 2024’s Sound Heals, she was focused primarily on the sound and its effect on the psyche and the soul.
“I wanted the listener to be able to sit and feel the rhythms and to end the track feeling inspired, grateful, and elevated,” she said.
She was full of excitement until she got to the studio, when she was frozen by self-doubt.
“I had to just push through my feelings quickly because I drove to Palm Springs to record with my cousin, Josh Major, and I only had one night to get it done,” Ace said.
Sound Heals turned out so well, it was accepted into Amplify 817, a streaming platform through the Fort Worth Public Library spotlighting noteworthy Tarrant County musical talent.
The song titles reflect her mission. “YOU ARE FREE!,” “Life is AHHHH,” “Love Is Asé,” and “Sound Heals, Just Meditate” complete the EP. Taking lessons from her career in health and the act of breathing, Ace masterfully combines her paths into one novel listening and feeling journey.
In 2022, Ace became certified in sound healing, complementing her music and bringing her two purposes together as one: healing and musical joy. Creating soft symphonies with Tibetan singing bowls, Ace develops sound sessions around the needs of the participant, intentionally composing an individually soothing and relaxing experience.
Similarly, before beginning her DJ sets, Ace intentionally chooses happiness. In her career, it seems the medical and musical are very intuitively compatible.
“Through my one-on-one sound-healing sessions, I transmute feelings of energetic heaviness, stress, grief, or hopelessness to an elevated state,” she said, “so from heaviness, tiredness, and hopelessness to joy, clarity, and happiness.”
The nature of a healer is to look to a time when a wound feels better or an outlook is brighter, and Ace has big plans for her own future. She dreams of weaving all the senses into a creative immersive experience that feels warm, inviting, and exciting and that she can take with her to different countries. Ace wants this immersive experience to be “one that inspires the audience visually, mentally, and emotionally.”
Heavily involved in culture and authenticity, Ace is also working with an artist in Zimbabwe on new music and hopes to travel there to collaborate in person. Spinning records does take her all over the world, so this goal is within reach.
Ace also recently became an entrepreneur, opening REAL LOVE IS BOBA in Flower Mound. Tea is famous for uniting people, transcending differences, and enhancing relationships through hospitality. Ace pushes herself to create community at her shop by organizing local events there and even offering DJ lessons. The community-based pop-up is “inspiring connection, creativity, and joy through shared experiences,” Ace said.
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