VIVA

VIVA (she/her) is a composer, producer, and solo performer. She is the great-granddaughter of A.A. Thorne, a human rights advocate and the first person of African descent in the world to earn both bachelor’s and advanced graduate degrees conferred by a British University. This legacy informs VIVA’s values of civic participation.

VIVA has appeared in award-winning short films, commercials, feature films, is a singer and multi-instrumentalist; a Maine Arts Commission Project Grant Grantee; a Grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan; an alum of Re/Union: Re-Editioning: Black + Native Histories, a convening at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; a Music to Life (funded by the Mellon Foundation) juried artist; and a SPACE538 AIR.

You’ve seen her at Damnationland, on Portland Maine’s Creative Bus Shelters, in music videos and on major stages across the region. VIVA the Sensation’s debut single, Goddess, which she wrote in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe V Wade, is now available on all streaming platforms.

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