Adia Victoria

Adia Victoria
Born (1986-07-22) July 22, 1986
Spartanburg, South Carolina, US
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, US
Genres Country, Rock, Afro Punk, Blues
Website http://adiavictoria.com/

Adia Victoria (born July 22, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her "gothic blues."[1] In addition to playing and writing music, she also writes poetry.[2] She is currently based in Nashville.[3]

Biography

Adia Victoria was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and is one of six siblings.[1] Her father is Trinidadian.[4] She was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist and she attended church schools until in the 6th grade, her mother enrolled her in public school.[1] Shortly after, her parents divorced and Victoria began to write poetry and short stories as a means of coping.[1] Being moved from the world of Seventh-day Adventists to a public school was difficult for Victoria, who didn't feel like she fit in.[5] Victoria and her siblings often spent time with her maternal grandparents who lived near Campobello.[4] She attended Landrum Junior High School in Campobello.[6] Her family also left the Adventist church before Victoria attended high school, which allowed her to explore music she hadn't been exposed to before, like Kurt Cobain, Miles Davis and Fiona Apple.[4]

After high school, she went to New York for a time, in an attempt to "strike it big in a new city."[7] In 2007, she left New York for Atlanta.[7] On her 21st birthday, a friend gave her a guitar and she began to work with blues music.[1] Victoria moved to Nashville in 2010.[8] She chose Nashville as a place where she could live anonymously.[9] In Nashville, she earned her GED and then took French in college.[4] She began to perform around Nashville.[9] In 2016, she performed at South by Southwest.[10]

Her personal "look" was noticed by Vogue for its "Afropop" roots.[11] However, Victoria states that she doesn't like to be "fetishized" for her looks, saying, "People think that because you are attractive, you owe the world something, to let them consume you."[2]

Work

Victoria has worked band with Ruby Rogers, Tiffany Minton, and Mason Hickman.[8] She started working with a different group of people sometime later, and they debuted together in January 2016.[12]

Victoria's first single release is "Stuck In the South" which was described on All Things Considered as a "very swampy mysterious kind of slow-burning song."[13] Rolling Stone describes her as "PJ Harvey covering Loretta Lynn at a haunted debutante ball."[14] Her live performances are described by Wondering Sound as angry and "furious and feral."[4] American Songwriter calls her stage presence "commanding."[15]

Victoria's full-length debut was produced by Roger Moutenot,[1] and is called Beyond the Bloodhounds.[16] The name of the album references Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.[16] The theme of her first album is about dealing with her life in her twenties.[7] Moutenot has previously collaborated with Yo La Tengo and also produced her first single.[17] The record label is Canvasback.[12]

Selected works

Discography

Songs

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Raiss, Liz (December 2015). "Adia Victoria: With Ghostly Folk Songs, a Southern Poet Rewrites Her Life Story". The Fader. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 Moss, Marissa R. (1 June 2015). "Where Pretty Doesn't Matter: Adia Victoria". American Songwriter. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "New Mix: Foxygen, Lily & Madeleine, Porter Robinson, More". All Songs Considered. NPR. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Adia Victoria's Angry, Thrilling Southern Blues". Wondering Sound. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Spanos, Brittany (21 July 2014). "Adia Victoria: Stuck in the South". Rookie. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  6. ↑ Arnaudin, Edwin (3 March 2016). "Adia Victoria Plays Nashville Blues in Asheville". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Valentino, Silas (20 August 2015). "Adia Victoria Stares Down the Corrupt B Side of 'Southern Hell'". The Village Voice. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Adia Victoria w/Erica Russo". The Mothlight. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  9. 1 2 McKenna, Brittney (8 August 2014). "Adia Victoria: The Escape Artist". American Songwriter. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Adia Victoria". South by Southwest. 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  11. ↑ Wagoner, MacKenzie (21 August 2015). "5 Beauties Who Answer to Afropunk's Rebellious Call". Vogue. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  12. 1 2 Trageser, Stephen (26 February 2016). "Watch Adia Victoria Shred 'Dead Eyes,' First Track from Her Debut Album". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  13. 1 2 Thompson, Stephen (13 March 2016). "South By Southwest Music Preview". All Things Considered (transcript). Retrieved 4 May 2016 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
  14. ↑ Spanos, Brittany (January 2015). "10 New Artists You Need to Know: January 2015". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  15. ↑ McKenna, Brittney (19 August 2014). "Those Darlins, Tristen, and Adia Victoria Rock Nashville". American Songwriter. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 Aaron, Charles (22 March 2016). "Geeked Up: Girl Grouping". MTV News. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  17. ↑ Green, Caralyn (23 September 2015). "Rust Belt Revival". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 4 May 2016 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).

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