Victoria Anthony

Victoria Anthony (born August 27, 2005) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. When she was 12 years old, she sang at a Pink concert, which went viral and received attention from national news outlets. She released her first original song, "Without You", at the age of 13, and her first album, Real Life, at the age of 15. She has been featured twice in The Recording Academy's series Press Play At Home and once in their series It Goes To 11. In March 2023, she was included in People magazine's list of emerging artists.

Life and career

Early life and career beginnings Victoria Anthony is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and has three brothers. She started singing when she was two years old. At the age of 12, she taught herself piano and guitar and picked up songwriting. That same year, with encouragement from her mother, she started a Twitter campaign called #VicAndPink to convince American singer-songwriter Pink to sing with her at Rogers Arena on her 2018 Beautiful Trauma World Tour. The campaign was reported by local news outlets, retweeted by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, and eventually noticed by Pink, who located Anthony in the crowd and allowed her to sing "Perfect" during the concert. The video of Anthony singing went viral, garnering 100 million views within a year, , and People.

2019–2021: Real Life Anthony released her debut single, "Without You", in February 2019. The song, which is about female empowerment, In 2021, her performance of "Breathe Underwater" was included on a live acoustic EP called LIVE along with covers of "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift and "We Are Young" by Fun. In late 2021, she did her first-ever US tour opening for Devon Baldwin. The latter tour coincided with the release of "Should've Known Better", the third single off her sophomore album. In January 2023, she released "Another Regret", the fourth single. In a review of the album, Out Now Magazine remarked that the album had "a lyrical depth and directness that you wouldn’t expect from a 17-year-old". Billboard included the album's title track in their top 10 songs of the week.

Artistry Anthony's first album, Real Life'', had a contemporary pop sound. The release of "How Cute" in 2021 represented a venture into a more pop-rock sound. with rock elements In an interview with SOCAN, she explained:It’s really important to me to see a song through the finish line, because I’m the only one who really knows what it’s about, and can get into the nuance of the way it would look if you made it into a picture, and if you made it into a video. And so, in the end, everything that I release, it has my name on it, and I want it to really be mine, and give as much input and vision that I can into it. And what’s even more important to me than that, is that I can really make sure that I get the most out of the story, the most out of the writing, and take it all the way to its full potential.