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United States Adia Victoria is a South Carolina-born singer and songwriter known for her gothic blues style, blending rock, blues, punk rock, and country music, earning critical acclaim and significant media coverage for her distinct sound and narrative-driven music.
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Adia Victoria, born on July 22, 1986, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is an American singer and songwriter. She was raised in a Seventh-day Adventist household with five siblings. Her early life included attending church schools until the 6th grade, after which she transitioned to public school following her parents’ divorce. During this period, Victoria found an outlet in writing poetry and short stories. Her family later left the Adventist church before she entered high school, which allowed her to explore diverse musical influences such as Kurt Cobain, Miles Davis, and Fiona Apple.
After high school, Victoria moved to New York and then to Atlanta in 2007. On her 21st birthday, she received a guitar and began exploring blues music. In 2010, she relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, seeking anonymity to focus on her artistic development. In Nashville, she earned her GED and studied French in college while starting to perform locally. Her career progressed with her first single, “Stuck In the South,” released in 2014, described by NPR’s “All Things Considered” as a “very swampy mysterious kind of slow-burning song.” She performed at South by Southwest in 2016 and gained recognition for her unique “Afropunk” style, though she has expressed a preference for her work not to be fetishized.
Victoria’s debut full-length album, “Beyond the Bloodhounds,” produced by Roger Moutenot, was released in 2016 and took inspiration from Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” This album explored themes related to her twenties. Her 2019 album, “Silences,” was co-produced by Aaron Dessner of The National. In 2020, she released “South Gotta Change,” executive produced by T Bone Burnett. Her third studio album, “A Southern Gothic,” which included the lead single “Magnolia Blues,” was released in 2021. In the same year, she was featured in NPR’s pieces “How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021” and “NPR Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2021.” Victoria’s music is often characterized by its poetic and political nature, blending punk and cabaret influences with a voice reminiscent of Eartha Kitt and Nina Simone.
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