Meet Luna Moon

Today we’d like to introduce you to Luna Moon.

Luna Moon, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I started off singing in choir and in the shower but I was influenced by my mom who had tried her luck with the music industry when my siblings and I were kids. I jumped into writing music to feature on some of my friend’s songs and projects and then I decided it was time for me to write my own. The only issue I had with writing was that I couldn’t write music to SING to so I started writing poetry, which led into rapping and eventually I was able to incorporate all three things into my music. I put my music on hold for a little because I became a new, single mother, but when I picked it back up, I was given the opportunity to work with and around a few local musicians who brought a different style of music out of me. I still work a 9-5.

I work for one of the largest tech companies in the world, as well as pursue music. I do not always have the money or resources or time because I am a mom and I work, I started to put some money and effort into creating my own resources, such as learning to draw my own artwork for my album and single artwork, I write and direct my own visual content with the help of some of my wonderful friends. I love to make music and I love to perform but I also am not trying to stay in the same place for life so I just want to be a testimony to those who know it is hard to be an artist but think they aren’t capable of pushing through and I want to show people that they can make do with whatever they have, because that is where the real creativity comes into play.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It has not been easy at all. Having to split that “productivity mindset” between a job that you need to survive financially and a career that you need in order to survive emotionally, mentally, and spiritually is the hardest part. Having to play with the idea that if you dont have the money to spare, you have to sacrifice something that would benefit what you love. It is most definitely not impossible to be successful and to be a single mother, which we all want to hear in order to motivate us, but it doesn’t change the fact that it is hard because you have to choose one over the other if you dont have the resources that would allow you to constantly have your kid(s) with you or that would allow you to create comfortably. As I mentioned before, I’m learning and researching things that I can possibly do myself without having to delegate to people that I cannot afford to pay and it gets stressful trying to cram so many things under one hat and still be a mother and an artist first.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I would consider myself and music to be a hybrid between hiphop, soul, and R&B. I would like to say I am pretty versatile. I sing and I rap and I occasionally throw out some spoken word. Locally, I am known for that and performing around the city. I am most proud of the growth, sonically, which is ultimately opening the eyes of people I want to be in front of and doors of rooms that I want to be in. I think what sets me apart from others is my determination mixed with my dead-set belief that I can go anywhere and do anything as long as I stay true to myself and I remain genuine, and I must say, having this mindset of building relationships with the people who can help me has saved me so much money that I don’t have freed up to fully push it all forward.

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My favorite memory from my childhood would have to be living back in Long Beach, CA and spending every day outside in the sun with our neighbors and having the biggest plum tree a child could imagine sitting right in our front yard that was surrounded by rose bushes. We used to sell the plums for a dollar each on the corners of our neighborhood. The guys who would offer landscaping in the neighborhood would ask to pick some from our tree and we couldn’t eat them all so my mom let the neighbors come in our yard whenever they wanted and in exchange some of them would bag up all of the dead leaves and rotting fruit before they left. That has to be one of my first memories of community. Having language barriers with some of these people but everyone still just “understood”.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.unitedmasters.com/luna-moon
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/fkalunamoon
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lunamoon702/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/fkalunamoon

Image Credit:
Yoshi Hogan, ChristianFGY, Brandon Eli

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