Interview with Victoria Banks
Life is painful and impossible and breathtaking and beautiful. I have to write what I feel.\n\nThat\u2019s where Victoria Banks' third album Indigo comes from. "These songs aren\u2019t written to fit a genre, or to meet an expectation of a sound,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019re built from bare-bones midnight recording sessions in my attic. They\u2019re things that I need to say."\xa0\n\nVictoria\u2019s list of accolades as an artist is long. Her self-produced, self-penned records When You Can Fly and Never Be the Same made her 2009\u2019s most nominated female artist in Canadian country music, earned her the 2010 CCMA Female Artist of the Year award, and sent her out on tour with superstars Reba McEntire, Wynonna Judd, Lonestar, Randy Travis and Johnny Reid.\xa0\n\nNow a staff songwriter at Nashville\u2019s RareSpark Media Group, Victoria\u2019s impressive catalogue of hits includes 3 cuts by Sara Evans including \u201cCan\u2019t Stop Loving You\u201d (a duet with Isaac Slade of The Fray), and the ASCAP and SOCAN-award-winning \u201cSaints & Angels.\u201d She penned Jessica Simpson\u2019s Billboard record-breaking country debut \u201cCome On Over,\u201d X Factor winner Tate Stevens' \u201cOrdinary Angels,\u201d One More Girl\u2019s breakout hit \u201cWhen It Ain\u2019t Raining,\u201d Doc Walker\u2019s chart-topping \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Make You Love Me\u201d and Johnny Reid\u2019s smash \u201cDance With Me,\u201d for which Victoria was named 2010 CCMA Songwriter of the Year.