VISSIA

Edmonton’s VISSIA is carving out her space as one of pop’s most inventive voices. Her sophomore album With Pleasure—a genre-blending triumph of pop songwriting—landed at No. 7 on CKUA’s 2021 Top 100 and propelled her to international stages at Cologne’s c/o Pop and the UK’s Great Escape Festival. With a sound that fuses R&B, soul, and pop with folk-tinged roots, VISSIA turns everyday moments into songs that feel both intimate and cinematic.

In 2024, she released Live, With Pleasure, a concert documentary she co-produced, wrote, and edited. Filmed during her sold-out cross-Canada tour with indie-rock duo USS in 2021, the project captures the electricity of her performances while pulling back the curtain on the realities of touring. That same year, her music video “Doorway” earned a Western Canadian Music Award nomination for Director of the Year (Peter Kominek), underscoring her reach as a visual storyteller.

Her storytelling instincts soon carried into theatre, where she composed the music and lyrics for Rapunzel, a children’s musical that toured more than 200 Alberta schools, reaching 60,000 students and earning her two 2025 Sterling Award nominations. With a new album on the horizon, she continues to embrace reinvention as the heartbeat of her art.