Vera Sola

Vera Sola is a poet, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. For the majority of her career as a musician, she toured and recorded with other artists–for a long while accompanying singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins on the road–in turn collaborating on film scores and providing soundtracks for theater and performance art. But when it came to her own songs she was a drifter, performing alone in and out of dark bars under various pseudonyms. In early 2017, she experienced a total shift in relation to her voice and musicianship, and only then was she compelled to record and release her compositions. In the days following, hiding out in a studio in St. Louis, she wrote, arranged and performed all the parts on her upcoming LP ‘Shades.’ Sound making, for her, has always been like mediumship.