Val·kyr·ie
/valˈkirē,ˈvalˌkirē/
noun
Phoe·nix
/ˈfēniks/
noun
Val·kyr·ie Phoe·nix
Synopsis
TIffany Gitter (she/they) is the creative force that is Valkyrie Phoenix. She is a crossover artist and a classically-trained lyric coloratura soprano. She writes, records and produces her own songs in addition to operating both behind and in front of her camera; filming, producing, directing and editing her music videos. Before embodying as an artist, she was first and foremost, a trained private voice teacher, early childhood and special needs music educator, music program designer, vocal clinician and adjudicator. She was also a wardrobe consultant with her own TV show who worked in multiple roles in television, a fashion buyer and model who had no aspirations of becoming a performing musician, until one day post-divorce in her mid 30's, she was opened to her untapped gifts in performing and songwriting through a chance encounter with another artist. She is a 'creative outlier' who has been impacted by intergenerational trauma, abuse and complex PTSD. She is a university music department reject, times three. She is a survivor of a divorce that left her in financial ruin. She is an adventurer who drove solo across the country on next to nothing, staying with people she'd never met to start over, only to face targeted exploitation, sexual assault, rape, poverty, displacement, mass-gaslighting and secondary homelessness after arriving in a "safe" community. Her original music and writing, both harrowing and soothing, intense and otherworldly, were birthed in this crucible. They are portrayals of her experiences, her survival, her spirit and her transcendence of scapegoated black sheep, or Kore (archetypal maiden) to Holy Outsider, or Persephone (archetypal Queen) through years of Underworld passage in sacred Native American lands of the American west.
Before...
Before the woman became the artist, there is the story of how this woman became through fire. She became through abuse, and she became through rejection and she became through divorce and losing it all. She became by picking up the remnants of her life and driving across the country on nothing but her own intuition, with her kitty-fur baby Milo, and everything that she owned stuffed in her car, staying with people she'd never met along the way. And she became, landing unwittingly and unknowingly engulfed by a small New Age town in the American southwest, whose shadows would prove to be far greater than the artifice of its perceived light. Before there was the original music that speaks the story of this untold underworld journey of initiation and becoming, there is the story of the young woman who was born with a song in her soul, who devoted her life to helping others find their own unique voices. This is the true story of that woman, and how she became Valkyrie Phoenix...
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