New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Victoria Canal made her US late night debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing "Black Swan" from her debut album Slowly, It Dawns out now on Atlantic / Parlophone. The song, a bold statement on identity, won the 2024 Ivor Novello for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. The flawless performance featured a set design by Maris Jones. Watch Victoria Canal's US national TV debut on Kimmel below.
2025 is off to an exciting start for Canal, who released her debut album in January. NPR Music called it "one of the most remarkable debuts in a long time," while The Guardian praised the album's "variety and nuance" and NME applauded the "beautifully crafted songs." The 12-song collection, co-produced by Canal with Eg White (Adele, Kylie Minogue, Sam Smith) and Kevin Farzad (Clinton Kane), finds the 26-year-old Spanish-American musician embarking on a path that mirrors the unravelling of the human experience. "Life does feel like the sun rising," she shares of the record's evocative title. "You come into the world with very little clarity on the way things are - everything's a little hazy and confusing. Then, as you get older, your eyes adjust to what life is; it gets messy and complicated, then spiritual and expansive."
Written over the course of three years and recorded between London and Los Angeles, the album captures this sentiment as much musically as it does lyrically: Canal's stunning range is on full display across each of the genre-blurring tracks. The culmination of a lifetime of musical knowledge, experimentation and a fearless approach to her craft, the album marks a new chapter for Canal: a moment of newfound clarity about the artist she wants to be.
Canal will tour throughout 2025, including a run of US shows starting February 15th at DC's Kennedy Center. In May, Canal will be hitting the road with Lucius, joining them on tour across the Midwest and East Coast. For tickets and all upcoming dates, please visit https://www.victoriacanal.com/tour.
26-year-old Spanish-American singer, songwriter and producer Victoria Canal makes soul-stirring, emotive pop music. Canal says her international upbringing fostered her love for a nomadic life in music. A 'third culture kid,' she lived everywhere from Shanghai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, and Dubai to Atlanta, New York, and Forth Worth, and is proud of her identity as a queer, disabled, mixed-heritage woman.
Canal is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, recognising her songwriting talent, an Attitude Pride award and an Imagen Award nomination for her television acting debut in acclaimed Apple TV+ anthology series Little America.
In 2022 Canal released her EP Elegy, which delicately dealt with themes of grief and death, and featured the single "swan song," which was performed live on Later… with Jools Holland, appearing alongside the likes of Self Esteem and The 1975. Her Ivor Novello Award winning sister song "Black Swan" features on her 2023 EP WELL WELL, which found Canal turning the lens back on herself to look inwards with courage and vulnerability, in turn receiving acclaim from The New Yorker, The Observer, The Times, NME, BBC Radio 1 and more.
2024 saw Canal announce her long-awaited debut album Slowly, It Dawns tour and appear on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage during Coldplay's headline set to play piano and sing on "Paradise."
Victoria Canal Tour Dates:
February 15 - The Kennedy Center - Washington, D.C.
February 16 - Mountain Stage - Morgantown, WV
March 16 - Lou Lou's - San Diego, CA
March 18 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA
March 20 - Cafe DuNord - San Francisco, CA
March 22 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
March 23 - Ballard Homestead - Seattle, WA
May 6 - Delmar Hall - St. Louis, MO *
May 7 - The Englert Theatre - Iowa City, IA*
May 9 - Palace Theatre - St. Paul, MN *
May 10 - Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI *
May 11 - The Majestic - Detroit, MI *
May 13 - Mr. Smalls Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA*
May 15 - Brooklyn Paramount - Brooklyn, NY *
May 16 - Lincoln Theatre - Washington, DC *
May 17 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC *
May 19 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC *
May 20 - The National - Richmond, VA *
May 22 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA *
May 23 - Bearsville Theatre - Woodstock, NY*
* with Lucius
