Teilz Has Lived Many Lives, But Her Pop Moment Is Just Beginning

Allie Teilz has released her first full-length album, *Come to Mommy*, a playful disco-influenced pop record that marks a new stage in a career spanning modelling, DJing, concert promotion and fashion. She says she began making it during a painful period when her relationship with filmmaker Spike Jonze was breaking down, turning personal upheaval into a source of creative direction.

Teilz, now 32 and a mother of four, says the relationship began to unravel around her 30th birthday, when she was raising infant twins and expecting another child. She describes choosing to become more self-assured rather than quieter or more agreeable. Music had also offered comfort earlier in life: during a year and a half of hospital stays for valley fever as a child, she repeatedly listened to records her mother brought her.