Meet Matthew Mucerino of Crossing i’s Dotting t’s in Orange County

Today we’d like to introduce you to Matthew Mucerino.

Matthew, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I recently started making music this year after my cousin/best friend passed away from cancer at the age of 21. I write rock music on the punk/emo side and my cousin seemed to be the only one who enjoyed that genre of music In my circles. I had always written down songs but never actually put them to a music or anything, so I just decided to do it and I haven’t looked back. He is my inspiration and my song “Losing Sleep Again” was my tribute to him. I’ve gotten great a response since it’s release, so it excited me for the future since I’m putting out new music every month.

Losing a close friend/family member at such a young age is really difficult.  Other than this tragedy, has the rest of your path been fairly smooth? I imagine it wasn’t, so perhaps you can touch on some of the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I live with Tourette’s Syndrome, characterized by physical tics and I was diagnosed when I was five, I believe, or four I’m not sure. They are head to toe constant movements that I have to make for seemingly no reason 24/7 and a lot of them make me physically hurt and I just can’t do anything about it. I also used to play football at Chapman University (Graduated in 2018) as well in Orange, CA and it makes football as tough as you can imagine as well. It’s something nobody ever thinks about or gives relief to, but It deserves to be talked about just like everything else. I’ve never been vocal about it because I’ve always been subconscious to this day, but I’m ready to help others and use my music to back me. It needs to be talked about.

What else should we know about you and your music?
I make music under the moniker “Crossing i’s Dotting t’s” Check out my Spotify. I just like to make music and appreciate everyone who appreciates me and my tunes.

What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
I am about to reach 1,000 streams on a song I released less than two months ago. That isn’t a whole lot, but to me it’s the world to see people enjoying my mind.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eNA56CKDh8uHvdk3Dsdbc?si=CNjDtWVYQnWTMAKNNk0JMQ
• Email: mattmucerino@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crossingisdottingts/

Image Credit:
Vulcho Bonev (Vulcanic Studioz)

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