Alexandra Rising is the stage moniker of one Leia Alexandra Manuel, a curly-haired only child born and raised in rural, south-central VA. Among her musical role models she counts the individualistic, the magnetic, the theatrical, and the androgynously sexy: artists who are less men or women then they are forces of nature. Her favorite characters to explore in art are the heroic villains, the villainous heroes, and others who defy classification, as do we all once you really get to know us.

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