Every minute, 14 women are physically attacked in Brazil; and these are just the recorded numbers. This is something Alexia Evellyn was not going to be silent about.

 

“I wrote ‘Savage Daughters’ with Michelle Leonard (who co-wrote Alexia’s debut single ‘Hold On’) and Charlie McClean. We sat down and got in touch with our past and how it feels to be a woman. Whilst writing the lyrics, I started thinking about Wyndreth Bergginsdottir, who changed my life with her music, particularly her song ‘Savage Daughter’ which the title takes inspiration from. For me, this song feels like it was also composed by her, even though we've never met each other, and the only similarity is the title”.

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“Savage Daughers” is the follow up to Alexia’s late-June debut single “Hold On”. Already reaching over 1 million streams across all platforms, the song has resonated with her large social following, aggregating almost 6 streams per listener.

 

This road has not been smooth for Alexia, despite amassing over 5 million followers on her social platforms over the past year. Just to think that four years ago she almost decided to quit music altogether.

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Playing the cello as a child, and receiving a University scholarship to study singing were solid foundations, however the confidence to embrace her own voice didn’t build until she landed a deal as the main vocalist with Cirque Du Soleil in 2019.

 

Just before a global tour, Covid hit, Alexia’s dream job cancelled before it even started, and fell into a depression ready to give up music for good.

 

With her friend’s encouragement and filming capabilities, she started singing anywhere she could, putting the videos online. It didn’t take long until viewers gathered on her accounts; celebrating, connecting to and sharing her acapella versions of old traditional and modern day pop songs, recorded in picturesque Brazilian nature.

 

“Being in contact with people who loved the same things as me gave me the feeling, for the first time in my life, that I wasn't that strange. In fact, there are many people like me spread all around this Earth. I just didn't know them yet.”

 

With a growing online presence, Alexia Evellyn spent most of 2023 travelling to Europe to create original music, collaborating with writers she admired for a long time, then heading back to Brazil adding the backbone of her cultural heritage and field recordings from several places of her roots, like Bahia and the Amazon rainforest, to her songs.

 

“(Savage Daughters) takes the gold, tears, love and fury of many women. For the child in me. For all the stories I've heard of wild women across this Earth, for all my sisters I haven't met yet.”

 

‘Savage Daughters’ is accompanied by a music video, produced and directed by Alexia and Andherson Barcellos, and serves as a prequel to the video of ‘Hold On’.

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