South Florida native Victoria Cardona is a guitarist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, one-woman jam band. Her loop performances are a sonic and visual experience that take the audience on a ride through the mind of an improvisationalist.
Victoria attended McNally Smith College of Music in Saint Paul, Minnesota where she was awarded the prestigious Founders Scholarship. Upon graduating with a Bachelors in Music Composition, Cardona relocated back to Florida and began cultivating her One-Woman-Show.
With the aide of the Boss RC-300 Loop Pedal Victoria stacks intricate layers of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal harmonies that are complimented by alto vocals that are reminiscent and often compared to Janis Joplin. Victoria’s Cuban roots and obsession with multicultural/ world music genres provide the inspiration for the strong Afro Cuban rhythmic undertone she delivers, in conjunction with a harmonic counterpart that fuses elements of Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae, Afro-Caribbean, Rock ’n’ Roll and folk.
In 2015 Victoria completed her first International tour through the Greek Isles of Rhodes, Hydra, Poros, Athens and Rome Italy. The tour was deemed a major success. She now divides her time between the United States and Europe, performing throughout Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Mallorca and the Canary Islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.
Victoria is proudly endorsed by Analog Alien Guitar Pedals and shares the title of an Analog Alien Artist with the company of Stevie Wonder, Billy Gibbons of Z.Z Top, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Joan Jett, Susan Tedeschi, Jose Feliciano and Pino Palladino.