Nation Rise in Love songs Support Humanities Evolution (S.H.E.) Victoria Whelan - creator and holds the vision yet is joined with other like-hearted women to perform the songs live, all holding a strong prayer and intention for the world they want. Victoria is also known as Joyaa or Sukha Sama. Her first album was back in Darwin in 1990 in a band that was half aboriginal - touring nationally with
radio play called Under the Spell of the Trees. She also produced a series of images alongside this called Lust in the Forest. Arriving in the UK in 1993 releasing albums as Joyaa (The Garden, The Softening, Wideawake & Dreaming, Into the Blue, and climate change album Too Late to Pray). She also had release as chillout act Aria Ma (star or music mother) alongside selling Lush Dresses for Goddesses. She was co-creator of Daughter of Gaia albums ( Spirit Visions, Rock the Goddess & Ancient Future). She also worked as a record producer and engineer during this time - co-producing over 30 albums, plus curated Womenspirit a multimedia show featuring 40 women all inspired by nature. Rise in Love is her first album in 10 yrs - during this absences as a single mum she also programmed and delivered many eco festivals in the South West England including Tagore, Big Green Week and her very own Seed Festival - Planting Big Ideas at Hawkwood. www.seedfestival.co.uk
As she is passionate about Love's role in the eco movement. She also is a Principal of a performing arts school in South Devon @TorbayPQA. Currently she lives on Dartmoor, Devon, UK with her daughter Scarlett. Mostly she is grateful, for her daughter, grateful to the songs, to the people she makes music with, to her sisterhood, to her creative community, to her collaborators in projects, her great teams, to Life and this precious planet.
