Today we’d like to introduce you to Yuni Wa.
Hi Yuni Wa, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today.
I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas in a musical family. The first few times engaging with music were when I’d participated in the church choir as a kid. At home, my grandmother would also play gospel songs on the piano and it inspired me a lot. She showed me music and how to read because I had a really hard time reading when I was in Elementary school. A few years after that the boys and girls club I went to added a studio so I started going there every Friday after school and slowly fell in love with music production and writing songs. As I was getting older I was making music more and more.
Music became a way for me to deal with the hard things in life early. As I was making great strides in music I was also dealing with health issues that led to me being absent from school and led to me getting kicked out of Little Rock Central High and sent to alternative school. They would also take me to juvenile court and drug test me even though I never acted out in school or did anything to justify going through this. The alternative school I was sent to had a really dark aura. It had an air of hopelessness, but music is what allowed me to have a purpose that pushed me to look past my current situation to want more for myself.
This also happened to be around the time I was truly learning to educate myself about art, politics, and history. Being enabled to learn while also being enabled to be creative propelled me forward to heights I never knew I could access. After requesting to go back to my regular school and getting multiple referrals from teachers. They chose to not send me back three times so I dropped out of school and took the music full-time.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I’ve had many struggles on my way to being the artist I am today. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs. Many periods of time when I felt like I was hurting myself because I wasn’t working hard enough.
I wanted to succeed so bad and I was crushing myself with the weight of all my thoughts. Some struggles were based on not having the stability and the resources to act on a lot of the ideas I had at the time.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I’m a music producer, songwriter, sound engineer, and DJ. I’m known for albums such as Data_Our Program Is Forever, Context 2, Yuniversity, and many others.
I’m the most proud of my catalog because every record is a part of me. What sets me apart from others is that my musicality allows me to do so many different genres of music while also capturing various emotions.
Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
I’ve had a lot of bad luck early in my career that has consumed things that could’ve changed my life early for the better. Things that could’ve given me more stability, but also I had a lot of good luck later on in my career that would allow me to utilize my talents more.
But when I began managing my expectations better I think I stopped caring about luck and just wanted to do the best I could to be the artist I’m meant to be.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.yuniwamusic.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/yuniwaofficial
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yuniwaofficial
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/yuniwaofficial
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YuniwamusicOfficial
- SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/LW6aJy6Y8v7eRTHB6
