Valerie Muriel Rodway (February 12, 1919 – August 1970) was a Guyanese composer of cultural and patriotic songs, inspired by the events leading up to Guyana's independence in 1966.

The National Trust of Guyana building in Cummingsburg, Georgetown, has been renamed the Valerie Rodway House in her honor.

Among the fourth generation of mariners in his family, he was known as "Capo" because he was a captain and owner of schooners and sloops that transported goods in and out of the Caribbean.

[8][b] In the 1930s, the income-earning property helped the Frasers recover following devastating hurricanes—which destroyed her father's schooners and sloops—and throughout the Great Depression.

[8] According to her sister Lucille Wharton, Valerie, then a toddler, would wander away from the family’s home and visit a neighbour to "tinkle the keys" of the piano.

[16] Carve our own fate, unmoved by distraction, prejudice and hate.Rodway was a music teacher at the St. Ambrose Primary School in Alberttown, Georgetown for many years.

[2] The poem "Let Freedom Wake Him" by Martin Carter, which she put to music in a combined syncopated-blues style, was a call for solidarity and action: "Give me your hand Comrade!

[3] She selected poetry that supported the racially-diverse new country with the values of "service to the nation, respect for the heritage, [and] the creation of a just and caring society", according to Vibert Cambridge, President of the Guyana Cultural Association of New York.

[3] Guard well our sacred heritage / That it may thrive from age to age / Guyana, Blessed Guyana, be / Proud of your glorious destinyShe composed test pieces for the British Guiana Music Festival, which was established in 1952 by Lynette Dolphin,[21] and music festivals held by other organizations.

[8] She was a member of the British Guiana Music Teachers' Association, where she lectured on classical composers Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Franz Schubert around 1949.

[24][25] The National Trust of Guyana building was renamed the Valerie Rodway House in 2019 to honor her work and life.

A speaker at the occasion, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, Professor in the School of Media Arts Studies at Ohio University, called her a "national treasure" who "found her inspiration in nature, the human struggle and Guyanese poetry".