Silvia Passiflora

SILVIA PASSIFLORA

For Your Grammy® Consideration
 

A Filipina Folk Poet Walks in the Room. . .
Among thousands of submissions, these three submissions arrive as one living body of work. Why they matter: Silvia Passiflora enters the field as a fully realized voice. A spoken word artist with Southern roots and Filipino lineage, she composes in her own hybrid form — braiding folk, blues, poetry, and ukulele with one unmistakable voice.Her three submissions — two albums and one roots track — form a body of heat and sacred memory backed by a whole ecosystem: nearly 1,000 original poems, a hand-bound seasonal literary-audio series (“The Flower’s Almanac”) and every master registered and metadata-embedded. She may be new to the Recording Academy, but the songs carry deep roots.
 

FYC Categories:
● Folk Album: Incarnata
● American Roots Song: Pokeberry Letter, a track from Incarnata
● Spoken Word and Poetry Album: Florentinae™:  Spoken Word Concertinas in Sacred Gardens
 

A Body of Work in Three Parts: 
Incarnata is a Southern Gothic bloom of raw confession and acoustic spellwork. These tracks pulse with heat and reckoning — from the sultry ache of Passionfruit (Hot Hot Hot) to
Appalachian domestic bliss Birds and Bees, to the battlefield ache of Pokeberry Letter, romantic confrontation in Dear Adam and desire in Moon Pillow. Together they trace a journey from sensuality to howl.
 

Pokeberry Letter, submitted for Roots Song, stands alone — a Civil War battlefield banjo poem-song written like an ancestral lullaby, stripped bare and sung as if time were running out.
 

Florentinae: Spoken Word Concertinas in Sacred Gardens is a new genre: compact spoken word concertinas which she coined. These seven pieces braid poetry, ukulele, and diasporic memory into a lyrical form passed from garden to stage. Echoing Maya Angelou and the modern oral tradition, this is a live inheritance — as urgent as it is poetic and intimate.
 

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About Silvia Passiflora:  

A Filipina American poet-musician from the South, Silvia is also a chef, certified sommelier, master gardener, visual artist and graphic designer. She moved to Nashville a year ago and now lives in her campervan, Hermie  the #Hottiemobile — performing across the Southeast, writing at farmers markets, and napping between shows. She designs all her own covers and metadata-embedded every track herself, building her creative career with the same precision she brings to the garden and the page. This is her first Grammy® season.

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Album 1: Incarnata  Listen to Incarnata

1. Passionfruit (Hot Hot Hot) —
A sultry roots-blues track carried by percussive ukulele and Jackson Allen’s harmonica. It simmers with sweetness and Southern heat, coiling like Tennessee’s native wildflower vine.
 

2. Birds and Bees —
Inspired by Appalachian melodies this track channels mountain intimacy and sacred longing. Silvia’s signature pinky-slide chord melody and bird whistle evoke tenderness with innovative soprano ukulele phrasing.
 

3. Pokeberry Letter — also submitted for standalone single for the American Roots Song category
A banjo poem-song rooted in ancestral memory and battlefield urgency. The narrator sings as if the night may be their last — yet sings anyway. Features bluesman Daniel “Mudcat” Dudeck and harmonies by Wendy Dumond.
 

4. Dear Adam —
A 33-second *Florentinae* (spoken-word concertina) written in an emboldened Eve’s voice to a hesitant Adam inviting him to co-create a new Paradise in exile in a “festival for two”. The entire song is fingerpicked on two chords (A & E), a clever nod to their names and the tension between desire and silence.
 

5. Moon Pillow —
An Americana folk soliloquy over ukulele and native instruments. Part memoir, part hip hop, blending literary cadence with kaona and layered double entendre. Silvia performs every instrument herself, ending in a primal howl that echoes long after the final note.
 

Album 2: Florentinae: Spoken-Word Concertinas in Sacred Gardens  Listen to Florentiinae

6. Machete Mama — A spoken word memoir honoring the artist’s mother — a woman who carried love in her arms and left gardens in her wake.
 

7. Do Oranges Dream in Color? — A surreal Florentinae with flamenco-style ukulele. A spider answers the poet’s questions with riddles of longing, sleep and dream logic.
 

8. The Scorpion and the Frog — A blues-inflected Florentinae retelling a classic fable. Themes of instinct, betrayal and impossible hope coil beneath a single haunting line.
 

9. The Man with the Blue Ukulele — A spoken-word ukulele blues and the discovery of a pentimento in Picasso's The Old Guitarist at the Art Institute of Chicago. A Southern noir ballad of estranged lovers, both musicians, and the woman hidden behind the song.
 

10. Those Who Held the Line — A Florentinae tribute to those who held the line during World War II in the Philippines — where war, wilderness, and poetry all endured.
 

11. The Heir of Blossoms — A spoken word piece in tribute to the artist’s grandfather, an island forest ranger. Themes of generational memory, ecological care, and poetic legacy.
 

12. Good Night Dear Sweetgrass — A spoken word field-recording for ukulele, braiding themes of Native American plant wisdom, sweetgrass and rest.