BIOGRAPHY
The Day I Said Goodbye to my Mama…
was the day that I knew that it was time to stop allowing life to stop me from doing what I feel I was placed here to do. Watching her leave this earth is that hardest thing I’ve had to do, yet I did it. The very thing that I thought would destroy me is actually propelling me. After more than 15 years working with children from multiple backgrounds including pre-teens from middle class families, being a youth ministry leader as well as a decade of service with foster children of all ages, she’s seen that on some level all kids are at risk for negative life decisions — but some more than others. LuluWow says, “from my experiences, I understood that we all have one thing in common, pain.”
Self-taught, LuluWow also plays the piano and enjoys combining heartfelt melodies over hard core beats to achieve a powerful sound. She’s written close to 100 songs including worship music and the battle-cry rap, “Let’em Come,” which was recently licensed by the Oxygen Network. Reinforcing the fact that her work can reach others, she continues to perfect her craft and share her sound through multiple outlets including live performance.
“I medicated my pain with music and faith”
She wrote her first rap song at age 12, but her most powerful memory was performing at a talent night sponsored by a sorority at Vanderbilt University. The audience went wild and it was then that LuluWow realized that she could rap a Christian message to a party crowd and still move the people. “It was then that I saw just what a force Christian Rap could be.”
Believing that at the “heart of the matter is God and the human spirit,” LuluWow writes music to remind you that even though you feel like dying, you can make it through this thing. I write music to wake up the beast in you, to wake up the eat in you, To remind you of the person you never knew you were. To remind you that you are able and equipped to overcome. Words can change you, particularly the ones on repeat in your life. If you’re going to be chronic about music, then it might as well lift you up and push you to fight for a dream worth pursuing. As Lumi Ms. No Quits, one of the characters in her songs, puts it, “I can’t change the past, so I made me a future.”
« Pain is inevitable, but there is a God that will help you through it. When you involve Him pain then becomes a commodity, that can propel you.»
– Lulu Wow Music