User:Sugarpdx
LuluBeatz / (born Luciana Maria November 18, 1998 ) is an American Italian Hip Pop, R&B singer, songwriter, recording artist, [1] producer, performer, dancer, and fashionista. She debut her first single "Baby Boy" ( June, 2014 ). Now 17, and affectionally known as “Lulubeatz”, she is evolving her career as a recording artist and performer. She is on iTunes, Tidal, Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube. She is self produced, self published and works out of Portland, Oregon. Currently on a summer concert series, that she has built from the ground up with award winning hip hop dancers, a live touring DJ, and her team. Luciana works closely with her parents, what she calls her “powerful trifecta”. Her father as her coproducer, and her mother as her manager, they work side by side on her projects.
Baby Boy (2013) Break Up with Her (2014) Maybe A Little Bit Later (2014) Heart Breaker (2015) My Number One (2015) Interest (2015) Outta Control" (ft. Young Dre) (2015) Natural (ft. Young Dre) (2015) Next ( cover song ) (2015) Young Lady (2016) We belong togeather ( cover song ) (2016) I just Might Like it (2016) Born into an Italian American family, in Bend, Oregon,[2] she currently live in Portland, Oregon. Her family has owned several restaurants and businesses where Luciana was the little ‘singing bambina’. As a little girl “Luciana would be singing whatever we were playing at the time, from Andrea Bocelli[3],classic Disney soundtracks, to the oldies with grandpa in the car.” says her mother, Maria. A few years later, Luciana and her family moved to Portland, Oregon. Recognizing her talent and her musical interest, her father enrolled her in piano and opera lessons when she was just seven years old. Shortly after, to everyones surprise, Luciana begged her father to take her out of the lessons because she “didn't want to be the melodramatic lady with viking horns bellowing on stage” as she told her father. In middle school Luciana fell in love with acting, and performing, and has worked with actress Katie O’Grady.[4] She loved being on stage so much, she jumped at any opportunity, such as school musicals, talent shows, and singing the national anthem at multiple events.
At 13 years of age, her talent was recognized and she was recruited by NWCT'. She began to work with vocal coach, Daniel Buchanan[5] to further nourish her ability. That year during the holidays, her parents gave her a gift to work in her first recording studio. At age 14, she recorded ‘Colors Of The Wind’, from the Disney movie Pocahontas, along with ‘Love Song’, originally by The Cure and re-recorded by Adele. At that moment in time Luciana had the realization that she wanted to become a recording artist. She began actively recording and releasing both original and cover videos on her YouTube[6] channel. Luciana and her father created a nano budget music video utilizing an iphone 4s as a filming capturing device and the warehouse space of Buzz Siler an International acclaimed artist, inventor and businessman for the backdrop of the music video. The music video took one full year to edit and was released May 2014.
The summer before her freshman year of high school, Luciana started to create her own beats and music at home, on her family Mac computer. Creating music that was along the lines of pop, hip hop, R&B, and dance. Summer of 2014 she got the opportunity to meet the country band Old Dominion[7] along with Fran Romeo, where she personally got the permission to recompose their county single "Break Up With Her" into a dance song. Later that summer, she created and wrote her first debut single ‘BabyBoy’. She recorded ‘BabyBoy’ with OC Recording Studios in Orange County, California. With this eyeopening experience, she learned the software involved in recording music. She taught herself Protools.[8] along with Logic, and learned essential studio mixing and mastering skills. This opened doors for Luciana, and she quickly saw the advantage of theses tools, creating all of her own music as the producer, singer, and songwriter.
LuluBeatz has released over 10 original singles and four music videos that she wrote, produced, storyboard and co-edited. In addition she has collaborated and featured artist Young Dre , Juice Jetson and has co-written several songs for other upcoming artist. Her main influences are Rihanna, Fergie, Gwen Stefani, Pia Mia, Ariana Grande, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Sevyn Streeter and Mariah Carey.
January 2016 on KBOO Youth Collective she had her first radio interview by Stella about how she got her start and first discovered. Later on May 25th, 2016 WILD PLANET RADIO 99.1 Matt Insley interviewed LuluBeatz announcing her showcase performance at the PRIDE ON STARK celebration at Scandals, plus shared her songwriting alchemy as a young female hip pop artist in Portland,[9] Oregon today.