A quick search on the internet would convince you I was born yesterday, an impression I’d be all to happy to live with if it were true. Even false it seems tempting to just go with it. I’ve been learning so many new things lately I feel as if I’m once again a child watching a whole new world reveal itself for my discovery.
Truth be told, I have many years of experience as a performer and recording artist, just not under this name.
Vanessa is a name invented by a poet, and therefore comes with little or no historic or religious baggage. It was later taken to identify a genus of butterfly, an association which I adore.
Vivante is the feminine form of the French word vivant, which means alive, something which for me took much practice to learn how to do properly.
-V