Vvii

“<a href="spotify:artist:5QcTdCdEdsRWyfDj46nbyd" data-name="Vvii">Vvii</a>” (pronounced Vee), a nickname for the woman behind the music: Vianca Vega. Providing refreshing and soothing melodies, while experimenting with electronic and alternative styles, she believes in the creation of forming simple sounds from intricate and intrusive thoughts.

She touches upon topics such as battling anxieties, fears and the transitions faced from adolescence into young adulthood in her 2022 debut EP, <a href="spotify:album:74D42iRbS9LxXjeljDzdXR" data-name="Juvenile">Juvenile</a>.

In collaboration with New York City’s experimental-punk outfit <a href="spotify:artist:1rnMxenrTZyuttAhlEC5H2" data-name="Cohort B">Cohort B</a>, Vvii’s cover of “<a href="spotify:track:4yY0IZu1v6I4mlEgiTS7QC" data-name="Crying">Crying</a>” has been featured in a compilation album in celebration of <a href="spotify:artist:7w29UYBi0qsHi5RTcv3lmA" data-name="Björk">Björk</a>’s 30th anniversary of her album “<a href="spotify:album:3icT9XGrBfhlV8BKK4WEGX" data-name="Debut">Debut</a>”. Proceeds of purchase through Bandcamp were donated to Harlem’s environmental justice organization: WeAct.

Features include vocals and synths with Bronx’s pop-punk group, <a href="spotify:artist:4QVA0BCvLtsrgbXEoUNMlI" data-name="Ronx">Ronx</a>, on their single “<a href="spotify:album:0BPHPvKpu0PpJ4CdahAsDO" data-name="Beauty In The Breakdown">Beauty In The Breakdown</a>”.

Vvii’s current single, “Rouse” (featuring Kellii Scott) drummer of <a href="spotify:artist:3grvcGPaLhfrD5CYsecr4j" data-name="Failure">Failure</a>, is the first of the next batch of songs that gives us a glimpse of her musical evolution with themes of maintaining resilient while overcoming life’s hindrances.