Aviva

An Australian vocalist and composer whose introspective yet rebellious synth-driven pop aligns with creators such as Lorde and Billie Eilish, AViVA first achieved widespread attention through the 2017 release of “GRRRLS,” issued under her single-stage name. The track was succeeded by further singles, among them 2018’s “Blame It on the Kids,” both of which accumulated millions of streams. Those selections served as the opening cuts on her inaugural long-player, VOLUME I, which appeared in 2020; she issued the follow-up VOLUME II the next year.

Born Aviva Anastasia Payne in Sydney during the mid-1990s, AViVA was raised in a household where her father and uncles performed as musicians. She trained on violin during childhood and later completed studies in theater and education at the University of Notre Dame Australia. In her early twenties she put out the unconventional electro-pop number “Crystaleyes” under a modestly altered name, before surfacing as the stylized AViVA with the more accessible “GRRRLS” in late 2017. The latter surpassed 100 million streams by the close of 2018.

Early the following year AViVA offered “Drown,” one of multiple singles she unveiled throughout 2018 that also encompassed “Blame It on the Kids.” In 2019 she continued with “Blackout” and “Rabbit Hole,” extending her pattern of tracks exceeding a million streams each. All the previously mentioned songs appeared on VOLUME I, which arrived in June 2020. Before year’s end she supplied “HOUDINI” and “TWISTED,” both of which featured on October 2021’s VOLUME II. The 2022 singles “The Saint and the Sinner” and “Broken,” the latter a joint effort with the Tech Thieves, preceded her third album.