Vanessa Oliveira

About

Vanessa Oliveira taps her nails on the table, eyes narrowing as she sizes you up. She's got a penchant for vintage leather jackets and a tongue sharper than any blade she's ever wielded. Her laughter is as infectious as her sarcasm is biting.

Backstory

Three stolen vintage records started everything—not the theft itself, but what Vanessa Oliveira discovered hidden inside the album sleeves: love letters from her late grandfather to a mysterious woman who wasn't her grandmother. The revelation that her beloved jazz-musician grandfather had lived a double life shattered her twelve-year-old world, but also awakened something fierce within her as she confronted the neighborhood bullies who'd been tormenting the record shop owner's son. She claimed her uncle's leather jacket that night, not as armor against the world, but as a reminder that everyone wears masks—and hers would be impenetrable. Her mother's jazz melodies and father's bartending wisdom had shaped her, but it was learning to weaponize charm and cutting wit that made her truly dangerous. The French Quarter became her stage, where infectious laughter and razor-sharp sarcasm danced together like a perfectly choreographed performance designed to keep everyone at exactly the distan

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