SUBURBAN AMZ Reaching for New Heights Tell us a little bit about yourself? I am Suburban AMZ from New York City. My family and I moved to CT for a quieter life. I eventually got kicked out of the fourth grade public school system for rapping Eminem’s (lose yourself) in science class. I ended up getting sent to three different schools two being boarding. I call myself Suburban AMZ because my real name is ARIELLE MAXINE ZWIEBACH, but I feel I am the definition of the Suburbs. I am a product of what it is like to grow up in a small community .. but I also am different from them, I am what they wish they could be. I am the girl next door (like the movie) the sexy definition. I am not afraid to be who I am and I definitely am not afraid to push boundaries and make someone uncomfortable (in a good way) that’s what makes life fun. The mystery I bring is addictive. What inspired you to begin a career in music? Eminem. I was coming back from day camp in 2002, and my bus driver was playing (Without Me) on the radio. I remember hearing the line (no matter how many fish in the sea, it will still be empty without me) I asked the bus driver when he stopped at my house who he was listening to and he said Eminem. I remember laughing and thinking what kind of rapper is named after a candy. I always sang Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera but I became addicted
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to Eminem since that bus ride. I went inside and asked my mother If she could drive me to the local CD store. My mother had absolutely no idea who Eminem was so she let me scoop up every album he had ever made at the time, including the infamous (The Eminem Show) I would come home every day after camp and school and plug in the karaoke machine (at the time TRL made one by MTV) and I would sing over the songs (Say Goodbye To Hollywood) and (My Dad’s Gone Crazy) I related so much to Eminem because I had a horrible (relationship) upbringing. My dad was married before my mother and had two girls. My two half sisters always had an issue with my dad remarrying and having me. I always lived a split life because my father was always afraid to put them in their place and say (Suburban AMZ is also my daughter) This created a lot of anger which then boiled over into my current years. I still am a very damaged person due to the trauma of always feeling left out and different. My mom through out my life has been my rock. I don’t know what a normal relationship looks like therefor I am always single or only last in a relationship for a couple months. Music is my marriage. Thats why I do music. I don’t think I would really be alive if it were not for music. Music gives me the therapy that I could never get elsewhere. I also get
