TRAVIS ATRIA IS AN AUTHOR AND MUSICIAN.

His writing has been translated into multiple languages and has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Believer, Wax Poetics, as well as other magazines and newspapers. His first book, Traveling Soul, the definitive biography of R&B legend Curtis Mayfield, written with Mayfield’s son Todd, was recognized with honorable mention by the Society of Midland Authors (past winners include Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel). It has been published in Spanish and German translations.

His latest book, Better Days Will Come Again, is the epic true story of jazz great Arthur Briggs, a saga that races from Harlem in the Renaissance, to Paris in the Jazz Age, to a Nazi prison camp in World War II.

Atria’s music has been featured on FX’s Better Things, MTV’s The Real World, and GQ.com, as well as in the film The Myth of the American Sleepover and a JanSport commercial. He has performed at Bonnaroo and SXSW, and his album Boa Noite was ranked by The Fire Note as best of the year. His latest album is 2021’s critically acclaimed Moonbrain.