Leah Victoria
Music Residency

Leah Victoria is a musical composer and visual storyteller from NYC and Ecuador, Abya Yala.

She has been writing and performing as Holy People for the past decade, utilizing flutes, drums, rattles, bells, vocals, harmonica, and other instruments drawn from the hymnal sonic traditions of her mixed ancestry, while also incorporating layered sound distortions, field recordings, and hypnotic drum machine beats inspired by the underground noise communities she grew up around and still participates in.

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.

Thematically, her musical world speaks to unapologetic sovereignty in the face of grotesque subjugation.

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