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Artist
Veronika Vesper
12+ albums
popelectronicgothalternativeElectronic Pop
about
Veronika Vesper has arrived to light up the firmament. She’s a curious creature on a mission to be a great artist; a Buddhist punk; she’s everything we’ve wanted; sexy, fierce, rebellious and cool. She’s come from outer space to change the world for the better. The statuesque interstellar star and her space pop combines the edginess of Bowie, the quirkiness of Bjork and the ambition of Gaga. Vesper was born to do this. Her incredible story starts in the then Czechoslovakia: daughter of a world famous conductor and from a family of classical musicians, a creative drive has always propelled her forward. While she herself is classically trained, there was always something more she wanted to do with music. As a kid, “I would play all my little songs I made when I was five on a Yamaha keyboard, dress in my mum’s clothes and perform for all my teddy bears.” It was obvious she was always a natural performer, “I was always entertaining the whole family, playing different roles every day. My parents thought I would be an actor.” In a classical environment, and in the years after the last days of Communism, the music around her didn’t extend to the sort of creative pop icons the people of the west knew and loved. “I didn’t know that you could have this life, that what I did as play could be a job!” Even if she didn’t know she could be a pop star, she certainly knew she was destined for something. The difficult times in her childhood gave her a reason to escape “into the subtle worl
