User:Trulalarocks/TruLaLa

TruLaLa (a.k.a. Jennifer M. Muller-Nunez) is an American Independent R & B singer/songwriter.
She was born on August 25th in NYC, NY.  Later moving to Astoria, Queens NY, she grew up in a rich environment with loving parents who helped to nurture her musical potential. Born Jennifer M. Muller, TruLaLa was later chosen as her stage name because # 1 she is a true blue person and LaLa is a name her Godmother Nickname her, so Tru + LaLa = TruLaLa. It is a perfect stage name.

Even as a small child, TruLaLa would dance around the living room of her Astoria, Queens apartment with a jump rope in her hand as various 70's and 80's songs would be blasting on the radio. She would sing to those songs using her jump rope as a microphone. Her parents would often encourage her creativity. She always felt that "MUSIC WAS HER DESTINY." As far as she could remember, music had been a great part of her life. Music coursed through my veins. The lyrics, the melodies, the tunes, the sounds, the notes all meant something to her. When TruLaLa was a child, she was quite precocious. Her grandfather Joe Muller, who sang at Carnegie hall in a barbershop quartet mind you, always said to her grandmother, “Nancy, this girl is going to be a star one day.” It was a premonition for good things to come. Each and every song she sang or collaborated on has true and deep meaning for her.

Her first song was created when she was the mere age of 6. The title of her first song was "I Can Feel The Sunshine” which was lovingly created with her older brother Paul Louis Muller (a talented singer, actor and performer in his own right) and his friend Sammy Adams. They played a simple melody on her mother’s piano and “BOOM” a song was born. As a young teenager, she began to take singing lessons with a talented man/teacher/performer, Greg Peters. He was a pretty well known Elvis Impersonator in the NY area. With him she sang some pretty challenging songs and they found her range to be a strong mezzo soprano range. He taught her correct breathing techniques, which till this day she still uses. She really did enjoy singing with him very much. In High School, she was always in the school choir and was the lead singer in many performances. When she was 16, she wrote a song called “Sometimes” and performed it for her class. It was a wonderful experience to sing for her peers.

After High school, she auditioned at the Prestigious Musical Theatre School in NYC called the American Musical Dramatic Academy. She sang “Out Here On My Own” by Irene Cara (one of her favorite songs) and did a 3-minute monologue. She admitted to be somewhat "petrified" to do the monologue since she had never acted before in her life, but the singing part came so natural. It was like music to their ears and she was accepted into this school. Unfortunately, It was quite expensive and due to financial difficulties, TruLaLa was unable to attend. She stopped doing music for a while and was feeling as though, “What was the point? Why pursue this music thing?” So, she worked in day care centers and even in the Board of Education of NYC as an Assistant teacher for some time. Mind you, she loved and enjoyed working with children and even went on to eventually receive a degree in early Childhood Education, BUT the music was always in the back of her mind poking at her and yearning to come out. She knew the teaching thing was going to be short lived. Then when she was about 23, she began to get the music bug again. That music itch was too strong to ignore. So, she bought a Casio keyboard and began to play songs and started to formulate ideas. She began to write lyrics and poetry. Subsequently after that she began to go on auditions for small theatre groups such as the Riant Theatre in NYC, auditioned for Show Time at the Apollo, Rent, Harlem’s Song, The Lion King, Star Search and many many other shows. It was and is a very hard road so she was a determined starving artist and although she loved the auditioning aspect of it (it’s all part of the game), it was very frustrating to be turned down many times for roles she knew she would be perfect for. Then about a good 7-8 years ago her younger brother Joe Muller a.k.a Kaos of 3rd Infintry started to record at home and she wanted to do the same. Plus, her very supportive husband Francisco A, Nunez was pushing her to do the music thing again and she took his advice. He wanted her to succeed and he did all her could to help her. So, she began to buy equipment and started to record music from her home. To this day she has a pretty decent home studio setup. She uses an awesome recording program called Pro Tools and would not use another program to record music in. She either makes her own music or beats (when she has time), gets music, beats, piano or guitar pieces from other talented artists or producers to sing on OR occasionally if the beat is incredible and she just has to have it, she will buy the music exclusively to use to for her personal musical projects. The last 2 years, she has performed in a few places and in many contests locally. She has also worked with many talented artists such as Starving Artists Perfexshunists (which include some of the following: Anomaly, Dave Derrilykt, Dickumz Da Ox, Capaciti, Thug Panic, Super Lyrical. Twisted Visions) and I have also worked with my brother Kaos and with 3rd Infintry, Repeat Offenders, Flowing Skills, Con Berraco, The Wilmshursts Machine, Chris Bishop of Project Overseer, Cameron Maxwell, Dzasta, Ladii J, JR, (just to name a few), and producers such as Tru Musiq, Marinated Musiq, Swiss Ivory, Nordic Ice Productions, Dave “Mezzer” Meredith, Bodi Rock, and of course the Wonda Twins. The list of talented artists, musicians and producers she has and does work with is so vast, she just cannot name all of them.

She performed in April in a small club in Brooklyn, NY called Bogart’s. She certainly received accolades and praise for her work. She then performed in a small club in PA in an open mic night last July, in a small open mic sort of venue and it was very nice. These performances caused her to take a hiatus on performing to work on first full length debut solo album entitled "Undeniable", which will be coming out by either the end of 2008 or spring of 2010. It will include her hit single "I Cry." Many people all over the world love this song and are playing it daily on their personal websites. She is very pleased with this song and it's contents and she is quite grateful to Dave "Mezzer" Meredith for making such lovely music. This is her favorite song on her up coming album BY FAR!

She gets a lot of help in the studio when it comes to engineering and mixing her music by Francisco Nunez her husband of 8 years with whom she loves dearly. He has been a great support for her during the last 8 years. He knew that music was her life and has supported her ever since.

On July 2006 she found out she was pregnant with her first child and took a longer than usual hiatus from music to "nest" and get ready for the birth of her baby. On April 29, 2007 Violet-Rose Evangeline Nunez was born. She was and continues to be the love of Trulala's and her husband's life. In March 2008 she made a song entitled "Dearest Violet" which was a song dedicated to Her daughter violet. Here is a link to the song:

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7324422

TruLaLa is working diligently on her music now and she hopes that any one who hears her music hears how much work, soul, sweat, tears, dedication, and love she puts into each song. Her album is coming out soon.

TruLaLa has a truckload of fans all over the world and the fan base is growing each day. She hopes that by the grace of God, her voice will be heard and she will make it to as far as she can go with her music.

"My voice is my life I hope you all will listen and appreciate true talent." she has been quoted in saying.

There have been many reviews on her songs and music

Here is a link to some of her reviews, which is found on a popular music site for independent artists. The site is called Soundclick.

http://www.soundclick.com/updateband/BandPreviewReviews.cfm?BandID=65628

TruLaLa's music can also be found at the following sites:

http://www.soundclick.com/trulala

http://www.soundclick.com/angeleyes

And

http://www.myspace.com/trulala

TruLala is a very talented lady. So please keep an eye and ear out for her and her music.