About Valkyrie Phoenix (VKX)

Professional Biography:

TIffany Gitter (she/they) is the creative force that is Valkyrie Phoenix (VKX).  Before embodying as a skillful vocal artist, she was an entrepreneur who served singers both young and old as a trained private voice teacher, a vocal clinician and adjudicator, an early childhood and special needs music facilitator and a music education program designer (Music Moose Program for early childhood and adults with developmental disabilities).  In another creative business capacity, she used her visual gifts in fashion and style to serve and empower a demographic of women as a professional wardrobe consultant with her own TV show (Empower Style) and hosted PSA's about healthy vocalizing for singers and speakers (Find Your Voice).   In addition to working in front of, and behind the camera for television, she was also featured repeatedly on radio for her insights on healthy singing/speaking and wardrobe style, and how they positively impact health, wellness and self-actualization.  She also served as a fashion buyer and was a creative model featured in award-winning expressive photography work. 

Becoming Valkyrie Phoenix:

(TW - brief reference to abuse, gendered and sexual violence)

Tiffany actually had no aspirations of becoming a performing artist until one fated day, post-divorce in her mid-30's, she was opened to her untapped gifts in performing, channeling and songwriting through a chance encounter with another artist who encouraged her to sing (see her first music video cover of Fractures that started it all...). 

Through it all, Tiffany has learned to allow through, and draw from not only ethereal spaces, but the shadows that presence life's inklings of splendor and light - knowing that the highest expression and "purpose of art is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." (Cesar A. Cruz)

True to her own form, Tiffany is a 'creative outlier' who has been impacted by intergenerational trauma, narcissistic and spiritual abuse, misogyny, complex trauma and family estrangement.  She is proudly neurodivergent.  She is a university music department reject, times three, and a college dropout who designed her own way when the system failed her.  She knows what it means to suffer from being marginalized and disenfranchised; cast off into the shadows of a family, community or institutional system.  She understands the divine, healing and sacredness are in the dark womb of grief, pain and loss; that only a certain kind of seeing, knowing, compassion, wisdom and awakening can come from the compost of what happens to us in the darkness of the shadows, or the liminal space of the void, and this is powerful.  She is a survivor of a divorce that left her in financial tatters.  She is an adventurer who drove solo across the country after the end of her marriage on next to nothing, with her cat and everything she owned in her car, staying with people she'd never met along the way to start over; only to face more trauma after arriving in a "safe" community in the forms of targeted exploitation, sexual assault, rape and rape culture, poverty, displacement and marginalization that forced her into secondary homelessness on the road across the American west.  Her haunting original music and writing, both harrowing and soothing, intense and otherworldly, were birthed, written and even recorded in the mortar and pestle of this crucible.  They are portrayals of her journey, her survival, her spirit and her transcendence of Kore (archetypal maiden) to Holy Outsider and Persephone (archetypal Queen and Ruler of the Shadows & Rebirth) through her years of Underworld passage in sacred Native lands of the American Southwest. 

What she has learned from her life experiences and shares through her music, is this:

The medicine is in the shadow - of ourselves, our families, our communities, our countries, our narratives, our histories and our world.  

This is the music of Valkyrie Phoenix.