1. Victoria Wenonah Banks was born on February 8,1973 and is a Nashville-based Canadian singer and songwriter who has penned songs for a variety of artists including Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Jessica Simpson, Lauren Alaina, Carly Pearce and Mickey Guyton.
Victoria Banks's songs have earned 2 ASCAP Country Music Awards, a SOCAN International Achievement Award, a Covenant Award, and a Grammy nomination.
Victoria Banks was named both Female Artist of the Year and SongwriterOf The Year at the 2010 CCMA Awards, and was nominated in the Female Artist of the Year category again in 2011.
In 2020 Victoria Banks became a podcast host with "The Table Women", a series that focuses on women in the entertainment industry.
Victoria Banks has won International Unisong and USA Songwriting Competitions in 2006 and 2007, played acoustic guitar for Pam Tillis, Crystal Shawanda and Rachel Proctor, shared the performing stage with Julie Roberts, Jamie O'Neal, Alabama and Billy Currington, and has toured as an opener for Reba McEntire, Wynonna Judd, Randy Travis, and Lonestar.
Victoria Banks co-wrote the top Canadian country singles of 2009: Johnny Reid's "Dance With Me" and One More Girl's "When it Ain't Raining".
In May 2010, after completing a tour in Canada, Victoria Banks penned the song City Of Dreams while traveling back home to the devastating and historic Nashville flood.
Victoria Banks presented "That's a Country Song" to the country duo Florida Georgia Line on NBC's Songland on May 18,2020 to an enthusiastic reception from panelist songwriter Shane McAnally, who called her "the real deal".
Guyton followed up with a 2021 ACM Awards performance of the Victoria Banks co-written "Hold On", backed up by the Belmont University choir.
Guyton's 2021 release of the full-length album "Remember Her Name" includes 4 songs co-written by Victoria Banks, and earned a Best Country Album nomination at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
Victoria Banks's "Uncovered" album, a COVID lockdown project for which she wrote, engineered, produced, and played all instruments on every track, was released independently in May 2020.
In 2003, Victoria Banks was the recipient of an International Achievement Award for the song "Saints and Angels" at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.
In 2009 Victoria Banks was the most nominated female artist in Canadian Country music at the Canadian Country Music Association awards.
Victoria Banks was nominated for a 2009 Canadian Radio Music Award for Country Song of the Year for her breakout single The Wheel and nominated for a 2009 Indie Award for Independent Country Artist of the Year.
On September 11,2010 in Edmonton, Alberta at the Canadian Country Music Association Gala Dinner it was announced that Banks was one of the recipients of the Songwriter Of The Year for the song Dance With Me.