Adia Victoria

slay me, cause im in my sin🔪💋 📷: Mulography - Anthony Mulcahy

so much love 💕 to KEXP for naming my latest single ‘dope queen blues’ as their song of the day. can’t wait to bring the Dope Queen Tour to Barboza on March 12th 😘 https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2018/11/14/adia-victoria-dope-queen-blues/ photo: Joshua Asante

YALL! I am so very pleased to invite you and yours to “A Very Delta Christmas” a full day of celebrating the legacy of the blues to take place at The Blue Room at Third Man Records on December 6th!!!☃️🎄 Thank you to Jack and my fam at Third Man for holding this space for us! 🖤💛🖤💛 THIS WILL SELL OUT. So don’t play, y’all. Tickets go sale today at 11 CST at adiavictoria.com Photo: Shervin Lainez

hey nashville! if i were to curate an event of scholarship around the delta blues—including a panel discussing the politics and appropriation of the blues, a poetry reading and a full band performing classic blues numbers and original music —would this be something yall would dig?

just a friendly reminder that black women invented rock n roll. 💅🏽 #blackgirlmagic photo: @amyellisphotography

the thing they don’t tell u about living in an ‘it city’ is way it can change and reshape itself in the blink of an eye right out from under u. i wrote a song memorializing the nashville i once knew, where my friends could actually afford to live to make the art that makes this town music city. and this is being taken from us. my song “the city” is a eulogy for those of us who can’t afford to keep up. who are being replaced in #newnashville and cities everywhere but even in the wake of mourning, there is still art to be made. i can’t wait to share this song with y’all. #silences #itcityblues #nashville shot by: Nolan Knight

working on a skip james cover this morning with my mind on the deep south and the legacy of suppressing black folk from the ballot. please, if you are able, VOTE. vote for those who came before us and fought and died for the right to be counted as citizens.

The boys and I had such an amazing time performing for our @worldcafe session yesterday. Played our blues and had a chance to speak about New Nashville, the new record, Mad Men and so much more with the one and only @annkpowers So much love to @wxpnfm and @nprmusic for your continued support! ❤️🎈

Silences. A Southern Gothic. 2.22.19 shot by Nolan Knight

Kansas City, here I come. We added a show at recordBar on March 16. Might take a boat, might take a train. I’ll probably just take a van, can’t wait to see y’all there! Tickets on sale Friday, November 2 at 10 am CT at http://adiavictoria.com/silences?ref= Photo credit: Nolan Knight

there ain’t much to coax this nashvillian into enduring the traffic on hillsboro, but going to the green hills library to vote early and put a check on the lunatic in the Oval Office was definitely worth it. #VoteForOurLives

a series of photos taken in clarksdale, mississipi. band was in town to headline @deepbluesfestival and any American understands the space mississippi occupies in our national psyche. i have kept her at bay, afraid to get too close for fear she would swell up like the river named after her and snatch my life alway. i think of the delta air that swole up and ate #emmitttill and #medgarevers The was a real life monster for many black americans. mississippi has stood at an unhealed stand still in my mind. so to take my band, a majority of us black, down into the delta to play our blues and find healing there, to hear my boys laugh out in the night unafraid, the very portrait of #blackboyjoy shifted something inside of me. it made me less afraid, more able and empowered to smile inside my blackness in the Mississippi night. #reclaimingtheblues #dopequeentour #dopequeenblues #blackgirlmagic #deltablues photos: @nolanknight_ Find out when the Dope Queen Tour is headed to you: adiavictoria.com

trying to spin songs from all my dizzying thoughts. #terminallyshy 📷: @nolanknight_ Find me on IG: @adiavictoria

reclaiming the blues one city at a time. 2/19 - Washington, D.C. - DC9 Nightclub 2/20 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's 2/22 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade NYC 2/23 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe 2/25 - Chicago, IL - Schubas 2/26 - St Louis, MO - OFF BROADWAY 2/28 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 3/1 - Austin, TX - Mohawk Austin 3/2 - Dallas, TX - Three Links 3/4 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar 3/5 - San Diego - Casbah 3/7 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge 3/9 - San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord 3/11 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge 3/12 - Seattle, WA - Barboza 3/14 - Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room 3/15 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge 3/23 - Paris, France - Le Pop-Up du Label 3/24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Cinetol 3/26 - Berlin, Germany - Auster Club 3/27 - Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher 3/28 - Cologne, Germany - Artheater 3/29 - Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma 4/1 - London, UK - Electrowerkz The Dope Queen Tour is on sale NOW! Visit AdiaVictoria.com for tickets. photo: Shervin Lainez

Today is National Black Poetry day. In this spirit, a poem I wrote called ‘liner notes blues’ which flings far the lid of systemic silencing of women and lets the language pour forth in undulating heaps of madness. #blackpoetryday #silences #reclaimingtheblues filmed by Nolan Knight in mississippi.

it’s a been a minute. no. it’s been hours, days, weeks, compounded (and confounding) to the point that i could not speak. i've made circles in silence inside my own mind. in this time i had to grow as a woman, whole and old enough to release a guttural scream of fevered dreams of a sinner redeemed who still can’t admit the existence of god. last time we spoke, i was stuck in the south. well, i got out. and a new chapter begins. i'm ready to let y’all in on the mind of a rambling blues woman. “silences” was written in blood and bone, in the onliest, loneliest of alone. produced by Aaron Dessner and featuring the baddest band straight out of nashville, tennessee. i'm reclaiming the blues. y’all ready? ------ New album "Silences" out February 22. Pre-order now: adiavictoria.lnk.to/Silences Or listen to the first single "Dope Queen Blues": adiavictoria.lnk.to/DQBLS And announcing the Dope Queen Tour in the U.S. and Europe kicking off February 19!

Shout out to my AFROPUNK fam for showing love to my new single Dope Queen Blues. Thanks y’all for continuing to shine a light on my art! http://afropunk.com/2018/09/adia-victoria-revels-in-the-dope-queen-blues/

it’s #worldmentalhealthday and i just wanted to take a moment to tell anyone who reads this you are not alone. i have struggled with anxiety and depression since i was a child, and often the only recourse for black women is to “be strong” or to pray it all away. sometimes prayer isn’t enough. if you are struggling, know that there are people who will listen. who understand you. i have found that the times my thoughts become darkest is when i try to silence them or will them all away. making music has been a life changer and a life saver for me. so, today, i want to thank y’all for allowing me to channel my struggle into art and for supporting me. thank you for giving me a voice and letting me know i am not alone. i can not wait to share more music with y’all. all the ❤️ xo AV photo: @nolanknight_

So much ❤️ for Mystic Sons for naming yours truly as their artist of the week and featuring my new single Dope Queen Blues! https://adiavictoria.lnk.to/DQB

I ain’t the first baddie to get them no good blues. My latest single “Dope Queen Blues” is the latest in a long lineage of folk doing pure evil down in Dixie Land. Got my mama looking at me sideways. For those of us with the devil on our shoulder I’ve curated a playlist for all your woes. Featuring Bukka White, Alberta Hunter, Queen Aretha, Skip James, Victoria Spivey, Charley Patton and more. Stream my “Bad Luck Child” playlist on Spotify now: https://open.spotify.com/user/adiavictoria/playlist/7rB7cI07Epwa99VXxrDshf?si=pRXI_XrJT8uFSMlcwHxAZw Nothing better than the blues to drown out the preacher man. 🙉💋#dopequeenblues Animation by Andrew Ralph.

❤️ to my friends at We Own This Town and to all the talented artists featured on this episode. it’s an exciting time to be making music in #nashville https://weownthistown.net/shows/wott-music/volume-118/

my skin is black. my arms are long. -nina simone 📷: Mulography - Anthony Mulcahy for Pancakes and Whiskey

nashville hot chicken. 🐣 #bts from #dopequeenblues a southern gothic nightmare directed by @iamniasymone_ 📷: @eliotxavier

nashville hot chicken. 🐣 #bts from #dopequeenblues a southern gothic nightmare directed by @iamniasymone_ 📷: @eliotxavier

dope queen blues video shoot. a southern gothic nightmare. #bts #comingsoon #dopequeenblues 📷: @patricesharon