Growing up in New Jersey, Victoria White began her musical life listening to jazz artists like Sarah Vaughn and Miles Davis. Eventually her interest grew to embrace a wide array of styles and genres to form her own eclectic sonic blend. Fortunately now for fans of jazz, rock, folk and R&B, it was all of these influences that began the first recordings of the songs she began writing as a teenager. Years before she began working with famed R&B guitarist Sheldon Reynolds —who produced her highly anticipated sophomore album The Upside, White was recording her voice on one tape recorder, her guitar on another and mixing them to create original tracks of her earliest material.
White composed every song on the album herself with the exception of the ambient, acoustic guitar driven “Forgiven,” a co-write with Reynolds which has a distinctive vibe that brings to mind an exquisite, jazzy soul simplicity. The thick-bass bottomed, “fighting through adversity” themed track “Keep On” features the lush, beautiful piano of one of smooth jazz’s most acclaimed performers, keyboardist Brian Culbertson.
