Bio
`Walking between worlds has been a consistent theme for She-Rōze throughout her life. Born as Carla Antoinet Silveira, her father, who came from Santiago, Cuba, arrived in America as a refugee after Castro’s communist regime came into power. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during the peak of the Vietnam War draft and was stationed in the Philippines where he met her mother who was a student at Holy Angel University near Clark Air Base.
She-Rōze was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, making her the first member of her family to be born in the United States. Then her father’s 26-year military career stationed their family around the world. At a fundamental level, She-Rōze attributes her perspective on life to their collective family experiences and the values her parents instilled in her. Many of those experiences and lessons learned have had an impact she continues to unpack today through her music and creative work.
For She-Rōze, being a multiracial American kid living in a multitude of foreign nations, she struggled throughout her childhood to gain a sense of identity and belonging. Furthermore, her childhood living abroad was peppered with terrorism attacks, civil unrest, military coup d’états and natural disasters.
Regardless of whatever dire situation and struggles they faced, her parents always found a way to help as many people as they could, often housing other extended family members or acquaintances, advocating for those that couldn’t advocate for themselves, and providing financial support to send children in the Philippines to school in hopes they would have a brighter future. Her sister was often She-Rōze’s only confidant and collaborator as they moved from one part of the world to the next. She credits her sister with teaching her to be an independent thinker and question the true nature of our human existence. All these lessons she carries close to her heart in everything she does.
While She-Rōze attributes the foundation of who she is to her family, the path to her own purpose began her first year at the University of Florida when a friend lent her a VHS tape of the BBoy Summit. While she had seen breakin’ in films and listened to Hip Hop on the radio, she had never known that the music and the dance represented a community and a culture – one that was completely inclusive of people from countless ethnicities and mixed races like herself.
She began dabbling in music with friends around this time, but it was always more of a creative outlet and unattainable endeavor due to pressures from her parents to build a more traditional career. “I envisioned myself as a working professional in the music and television industry to at least stay close to what I loved rather than becoming an artist myself,” she says. During her junior year of college, She-Rōze transferred to Florida International University in pursuit of better internship opportunities.
As she built her career as a media, creative and marketing professional, she continued to be an advocate and supporter of Hip Hop and the breakin’ community, volunteering her professional skills to support bboy events, publications like BTWN the BRKS and grassroots organizations including the Beat Swap Meet and No Easy Props. She also developed press and promotional materials for independent Hip Hop artists which led her to her husband, Artson.
She eventually became his executive producer, and through their work together she partnered with him on every aspect of his albums, from the development of every song to his marketing strategy, his stage performances and even a documentary film on the launch of his Brave Star album and experience on the last Van’s Warped tour. The album and several of Artson’s subsequent projects have won numerous Native American music awards and received over half a dozen other nominations to-date.
During the pandemic She-Rōze began releasing her own music. “I am not someone that’s ever been comfortable putting myself out there like that, and I would never say I love a challenge, but I can’t live with the idea of being a creative coward,” she explains.
After nearly two decades of playing a supporting role on various award-winning albums for other independent artists, She-Rōze was named the 2022 "Songwriter of the Year" by the International Indigenous Hip Hop Awards for her debut album, We Rise. Her latest single "Rumble" is set to release in late March, 2023, and is dedicated to bgirls and women in Hip Hop around the world who continue to inspire her with their passion and resiliance.
Proceeds from her album and performances go to various community organizations she partners with as well as her own non-profit, the Shero Collective, which is dedicated to empowering women, arts & culture advocacy, mentorship and career development resources, community insights and consulting.