The LA-based pop musician premieres 'Alive,' exclusively on i-D.
’s story begins in a way that’s not totally unfamiliar. In fact, it’s similar to that of many musicians her age. Valentina uploaded a track called “Easy For U” to Soundcloud in 2017, which caught the attention of media and music industry heavyweights alike, and suddenly the then-18-year-old had signed her first manager.
The daughter of a Brazillian pianist who moved to the United States to study jazz and composition, Valentina was raised on bossa nova and the powerful crooning of Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan. She spent her time outside of school taking piano and guitar lessons, and jamming in the living room with her dad. “As soon as people started talking about college, I was like there’s no freaking way I can go to college. I need to do music full-time,” Valentina says.
Unlike some of her more fortuitous contemporaries, Valentina didn’t experience a smooth professional ascent after her first viral hit. “I was so young when I got my first manager that I didn’t even know how to talk to them or how to go forward with this older, wiser person,” she tells i-D. “I didn’t know what my sound was either, so we butted heads a lot — that continued to happen with other teams for the next three years.
When asked where her anxiety stems from, she admits that her rather turbulent entry into the music industry played a large role. “I have been pushed in so many directions and told that I should be a perfect pop princess or that I should be even more left field and ‘cooler,’” Valentina says. “Everyone that I worked with had a certain idea of who I should be, so that’s why I ultimately had to separate myself from everyone.
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