Located between magic and earth, enchanted by nature, in the arms of one of her totems - also known as Brazil - Alexia Evellyn has been searching for her true place in the realms of our existence. And she has found it, it seems, in her art. Alexia  Evellyn's music comes from the soil, from the wind of the past and the fire of a present that needs alignment with nature more than ever before. Her music is a force, fortified by her love for the universal soul in all things. ​

 

Over the past years, Alexia Evellyn has amassed millions of followers on her social platforms by showing her audience a glimpse of what humans were actually created for: roaring with the storms, answering to the birds, stomping through the mud and staring into the fire, all the while singing with gaping ardour for the sole purpose of doing it.

 

Just to think that four years ago she almost decided to quit music altogether… 

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.

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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.

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“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.

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​​​​The first thing people hear on her debut single “Hold On” (produced by Dillistone and Max Cooke [Ellie Goulding, Dermot Kennedy, Winona Oak]) is that deep drum she loves so much. Producing music on such a proficient level proved challenging for Alexia Evellyn at first, until she surrendered to be more objective with her feelings and deciphered the treasure of what they bring, creating a vulnerability in the studio she rarely apprehended before.

 

“Even though I love singing acapella, it's impossible to demonstrate everything that's in my head without the production, without the arrangements, without the lyrics, without all the backing vocals and millions of drums”, she explains, glowing with excitement. “And there are parts of me that I have never been able to show in my social videos, especially Alexia Evellyn who loves pop music.”

 

“"Hold On" was also one of the first songs I wrote. It talks about a dream I had, a dream that I hope to see living in this life. It's about maintaining a strange mania of faith in life, as Milton Nascimento sings. It talks about embracing pain and dancing with it through the body.”

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​The second single, "Savage Daughters" is an anthem for sisterhood.

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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The rest of the songs Alexia Evellyn wants to send out into the world on her first EP are ready and waiting to be perceived. They’re a multi media introduction into the world of Alexia Evellyn, both visually and sonically. “I've always dreamed of making a visual album, and bringing together references to everything I love in the same piece of work.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Now, Alexia Evellyn is share this vulnerability with the world, telling stories of hurt and hope, of the darkness and the beauty of it all. “I hope with my heart that people will love it as much as I do! I want to continue living as a nomad in nature and wherever music takes me. To be better than I was yesterday, in all my bodies. To be freer than I was told I could be. Getting closer and closer to a real human being. And if possible, in some way, however small, make this possible for other beings with my music.”

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