Victoria Jane Asher, also known as Vicky-T, is an American musician. She was the keytarist of Cobra Starship until their split in November 2015, and is currently recording as a solo artist under the name Vicky-T.
Early life
Asher is the daughter of Peter Asher, from the British pop duo Peter and Gordon, and Wendy Asher, who worked in the film business but is now a well known art collector/curator. Wendy can be seen in the Banksy film Exit Through the Giftshop. Asher attended high school with artist Shwayze and photographer Lauren Dukoff. She attended NYU to study film. During her time there, she worked for directors Michel Gondry and Terry Gilliam. She assisted on music videos like The White Stripes' "The Denial Twist" and Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say", on the commercial "Nespresso... What Else?" featuring George Clooney, and on feature filmsThe Science of Sleep and Be Kind Rewind. After finishing school she worked on the film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints for a summer with Robert Downey Jr., who is a personal friend. In 2006, Gabe Saporta discovered her on Myspace.com after searching for female keyboardists in NYC. From there, she took a leave of absence from university to join Cobra Starship, and 18 at the time. She eventually graduated from New York University.
Musical career
In 2007, she and her Cobra Starship bandmates went on the Fall Out Boy headlined Honda Civic Tour, along with +44, The Academy Is..., and Paul Wall. She provided vocals in place of Carol Heller on +44's song “Make You Smile". In August of the same year, a rumor went around that she, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump and Ashlee Simpson collaborated on a song that was on Asher's Myspace. Supposedly, Stump played bass and drums, and Simpson helped Asher with the lyrics. However, this rumor was proven false when Asher claimed that it was all a huge misunderstanding. During the Honda Civic Tour, Stump taught Asher how to use GarageBand, which, assumingly, helped her create the song. In the end, Asher made it clear in a blog entry on her Myspace page that she "just didn't want to leave anyone without credit". Cobra Starship took a break from touring and Asher used the free time to work for the company TCG Studios making main title sequences. She filmed and developed the opening title sequence for both Orange Is the New Black with director Thomas Cobb and the opening title sequences for Bitten, Homeland, Satisfaction and more. She also directed the music videos for Guilty Pleasure: Home Video, and "Kiss My Sass", along with many other music videos/online content for the band while touring. Other musical projects include a band called Optimo, which she formed with friends in Los Angeles, and a brief side project with Frank Staniszewski called NotInTown. Now a solo artist, Asher still writes her own music, blogs and creates tour footage montages. She self-released her first single, "Protect This Love", in March 2016. Nine months later, her second single was uploaded onto her YouTube channel, and released on iTunes the next day. In 2016 she created the company Muted Color as a way to release her own music and to create video content. Through Muted Color she released: “Clouds”, “Turn It Low”, Ghost, “Another Word For Paradise”, “Kryptonite”, “Hollow” and her four track EP “Feeling Myself Without You” Later in 2018 she teamed up with her boyfriend Trent Culkin to take over Muted Color and they are making it into a production company and artist collective. 2019: Victoria brought on Helena Hawkes after they met while working at Blumhouse Productions. Victoria, Helena and Trent will be announcing the new and improved Muted Color in 2020.
