Toronto artist Victoria Staff writes music for the same reasons that we all run and bake and hang out with friends and family – it makes us feel better. Writing music has always supported her through mental health issues, and it gave her a way to process complex emotions at a really young age. She writes music to help herself, and she shares it to help other people. On her latest ethereal and sorrowful single “Campfire” she does just that, lending a voice to those in silence by a far too prevalent atrocity. 

“When I was 16, I was sexually assaulted. At the time, I had no idea what to process what had happened to me and no way of telling people. I wrote “Campfire” as a coping mechanism, a way to tell the people around me what I had experienced, what I was going through. What inspired me to release it is looking back I felt like there were lots of songs about overcoming trauma and being the bigger person in the face of hardship, but I wanted a song that talked about how it felt to be in the eye of the storm. I want this song to support people who don’t have a way to voice their experience and are still in the place of processing.”