Leah Victoria

Leah Victoria is a musical composer, visual artist and storyteller from New York and Ecuador, Abya Yala. She has been writing and performing hymnal melodies as Holy People for the past decade.

Utilizing flutes, drums, rattles, bells, vocals, harmonica, and other instruments drawn from the musical traditions of her Shuar, Cañari, and Iberian ancestors, her songs incorporate the layered sound distortions, field recordings, and hypnotic drum machine beats inspired by New York City's eclectic underground and the adjacent noise communities she participates in. Thematically, her musical world tells tales of abuses of power and the spiritual healing and reclamations of sovereignty required to counter them from a queer-indigenous-feminist perspective.

Leah has developed work for Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY; Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, NY; Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI; The Opportunity Agenda's Creative Change Summit in Tamaya, NM; and was a regular guest collaborator at former DIY Brooklyn-based experimental music hubs, Chaos Computer and The Glove.

Her debut LP, Jester to Her Majesty The People, can be streamed or purchased online at holypeople.bandcamp.com.