Support Vie Chimère

Your direct, private support helps Rosie Vie continue creating empowering music and advocacy as an independent artivist. Rosie is currently experiencing homelessness and serious housing displacement. Contributions today help her secure safe shelter, cover essentials, manage health needs, and keep building momentum with her music and outreach.

Why your support matters now

Rosie is navigating homelessness and an active housing displacement crisis. Combined with chronic pain related to a complex rare disease (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome), day-to-day stability is a real challenge. Your help creates immediate breathing room so she can stay safe, care for her health, and continue making the music and messages that lift others up.

How contributions are used

Immediate needs: temporary housing, food, transit, and phone/data to coordinate care and opportunities.

Health-related costs: pain management essentials and appointments related to EDS and co-conditions.

Creative work: basic equipment upkeep, recording, and low-cost production to keep releases moving (e.g., Windchill).

Outreach: content and vlogs that help others self-advocate and find answers.

A note from Rosie ("cyber-busking" album)

This album is currently linked to "cyber-busking" (as I like to call it) style fundraising... visit viemusic.org/donations.

I'm fighting hard to re-start my life after housing has gone in such a way for me that I currently find myself unhoused and (embarrassingly) struggling with homelessness. It's a bit of a complex and painful story that got me here (I've decided rather than tell that directly, I'll write about it in an entry on my new blog), but I'm fighting hard to end this as I miss my fur babies (they are in fosters) immensely.

It's a huge barrier to not only artistic/creative growth for my currently-developing second album—where I have some very exciting material I've composed and have been gradually cooking/raring to fully prepare for you (as well as a nutrition course I am doing in hopes to consult on the side, too)—but most important, my fundamental health and safety remain affected.

I am autistic (autism one—formerly Asperger syndrome—diagnosed) and I struggle with chronic pain and many other challenges due to a chronic illness (rare disease Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) and its comorbids POTS/dysautonomia and mast cell disease. It's hard to be without a proper home with this, especially :( Currently, I'm staying in a shelter, and while I'm grateful it's not outside, it can be very challenging in there as many people—if not most—openly use drugs (not judging them, but all that comes with this—i.e., mood swings, etc.—make it tough for sensitive me). I'm often as caring as I can be to a fault, and sometimes I need a time out. It's hard. I would give anything for a home again.

Still, I'm hoping to earn my way back to starting over via art and vlogging/journaling/advocacy, in spite of the hurt and naysayers trying to convince me I'm not worthy, or those who are just down on the begging style of fundraising. Here's my style: hard work and tangible material to offer back to you, to show you what can be if I make it! It's hard to not let falling through the cracks of the system get to you, but I can't, because I should know better.

I really wanted to do a more professional, studio-quality version of what I feel is the biggest, deepest, most hard and home-hitting song of my life, Windchill, but resources for that were not something currently at my disposal. I flogged for days trying—amid practically every barrier under the sun—to get it to where I wanted it. I also flogged a fair bit with the other new ones.

As for Windchill, I would say it's pretty darn good. It may not have a high-class studio sound, but it still has a glorious hi-fi/lo-fi bedroom pop (with lack of the bedroom—haha, which is why I said "homegrown" instead—home in the heart) vibe. Just imagine an expensive studio version of that thing. Just imagine! It more than at least shows the potential it has and I can include the lyrics—but I'm looking forward to the "glorious" version, when I get there.

I will describe a little about each song—both from the first 8‑track original award-winning album and the new ones—including the lyrics. Please consider supporting me and referring my material/cause to your friends/circles! Thanks for listening! Love and Light!

Note: Direct support via email is a private, no-fee route. If you cannot give, sharing this page is a huge help. Thank you for helping power the music, the message, and the mission.