MELODIC FOLK ROCK POP WITH A JAZZ BLUES EDGE
Victoria Fuller's music is folk rock with jazz, blues, and pop overtones. As a young girl she listened to folk singers Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell. Other past influences: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, The Doors, James Taylor, Carol King, Brazilian and contemporary jazz, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Bonnie Raitt, and Steely Dan. She taught herself the guitar at age 13 and began songwriting.
She was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, near Allentown. As a child she excelled in art and music, climbing trees, and bugging her older brother and sister. Her father, a businessman and photographer, and her artistically inclined mother encouraged her to be creative and she was also inspired by her equally creative siblings. She studied art in college, and then moved to Aspen, CO, where she performed her music and created art. In search for knowledge and adventure she traveled to China, witnessing the Tiananmen Square uprising, to Africa on photo Safari, and on the Amazon on a house boat creating botanical illustrations, She has lived in Paris to study French, New York to immerse herself in the NY art scene, and in San Francisco to study at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Photo By Jack Perno
She moved to Chicago in 1992 to get a degree in art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She gave up music for several years to concentrate on the visual arts but could not stay away forever, and began to pursue it once more. Now she is both a singer/songwriter and an accomplished sculptor / painter, Showing her work at the Chicago Cultural Center, at the Navy Pier large-scale outdoor sculpture show, and extensively throughout the United States. Besides doing solo performances, she is also part of an acoustic vocal duo called Head Over Heels and performs with her singing partner John Seitz. Recent gigs include Uncommon Ground, Heartland Cafe, Hungry Brain, Leadway Bar and Grill, and Chase Café, in Chicago.
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