ADIA VICTORIA
Adia Victoria spent much of her youth in a part of the South whose majority lived well below the poverty line. The artist is often praised for her stark representations of life in an oft-romanticized bastion of American culture. Like a Faulkner novel, Victoria paints pictures both bleak and beautiful in her songs and offers them up in the live setting with an unparalleled profundity. Her perspective on art and culture won her an invitation to speak at Yale where she appeared on a panel with writer Greill Marcus and musician Jack White.
