Victoria is drumming up change: Championing self-advocacy through music
Legendary Jamaican musician, Bob Marley, once said, “one good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Self-advocate and professional musician Victoria B. has been using music to self-soothe for as long as she can remember, and for the last several years, she’s been helping others do the same through her own music.
Victoria was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, and music soon became a defining part of her life. It offered the Chicago native not only a means of self-expression but a way to connect with others, which she often found challenging due to her diagnosis. Her journey with West African drumming began when a high school administrator, recognizing his passion for music, gifted her a djembe, a rope tuned goblet drum, as a graduation present.
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