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07/26/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/26/2024 09:41
Victoria Canal Celebrates Queer Exploration On New Single “California Sober”
About Victoria Canal:
25-year-old Spanish-American singer, songwriter and producer Victoria Canal makes soul-stirring, emotive pop music. Canal says her international upbringing fostered her love for a nomadic life in music. A proud "third culture kid," she has lived everywhere from Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, and Dubai to Atlanta, New York, and Forth Worth, and takes pride in her identity as a queer, disabled, mixed-heritage woman.
Canal is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, recognising her songwriting talent, an Attitude Pride award and an Imagen Award nomination for her television acting debut in acclaimed Apple TV+ anthology series Little America.
In 2022 Canal released her EP Elegy, which delicately dealt with themes of grief and death, and featured the single "swan song," which Chris Martin of Coldplay hailed as 'one of the best songs ever written' and was performed live on Later… with Jools Holland, appearing alongside the likes of Self Esteem and The 1975.
Her Ivor Novello Award winning sister song 'Black Swan' features on her 2023 EP WELL WELL, which found Canal turning the lens back on herself to look inwards with courage and vulnerability. The singles "Shape" and "She Walks In" were the first time she'd shared on the themes of body image and body dysmorphia, pertaining in part to her limb difference.
Years in the making, Canal has been busy writing and recording her debut album, pushing her sonic boundaries to create her most wide reaching and expressive music to date. Canal has toured worldwide and is set to play her biggest run of headline shows in late 2024.
Victoria Canal 2024 Live Dates
August 17 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
September 7 - Munich, Germany - Superbloom Festival
September 16 - Milwaukee, WI - Vivarium
September 17 - Evanston, IL, Space
September 19 - Columbus, OH - The Basement
September 21 - Richmond, VA - Iron Blossom Festival
September 23 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
September 24 - Atlanta, GA - Vinyl
September 25 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley
September 27 - Lake Orion, MI - 20 Front Street
September 29 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
September 30 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE *
October 2 - Madison, WI - Sylvee *
October 3 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre *
October 4 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom *
October 9 - Barcelona, Spain - La Nau
October 10 - Madrid, Spain - Conde Duque
October 12 - Lisbon, Portugal - Musicbox Lisboa
October 13 - Porto, Portugal - Porto Mouco
October 19 - Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute
October 21 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 3
October 24 - London, UK - EartH Theatre
October 26 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew
October 28 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Tolhuistuin
October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Club
November 2 - Cologne, Germany - Yuca
November 3 - Berlin, Germany - Frannz Club
November 5 - Hamburg, Germany - Nochtspeicher
November 9 - La Roche sur Yon, France - Le Quai M
November 10 - Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer
November 12 - Paris, France - La Boule Noire
November 13 - Lille, France - La Bulle Café
November 14 - Rouen, France - Le 106
* Supporting Sammy Rae & Friends
Recent Praise for Victoria Canal
"Canal's ascendant career is built on her ability to unflinchingly capture feelings… she seems on the brink of something bigger." - The New Yorker
"Perceptive, unflinching songs… as the world wakes up to her many talents." - The Observer
"Her piano playing is mesmerising." -The Times"Her gentle and ruminative form of songwriting is finally getting the recognition it deserves."- i-D"A tender blend of goosebump-inducing balladry akin to the kind of cataclysmic intensity of artists like Phoebe Bridgers or Holly Humberstone." - NME
"Beautiful." - Attitude Magazine, Pride Icon Award winner
"WELL WELL represents her at her most vulnerable and her most brave." - Gay Times