Luna Elle is a 17 year old Canadian artist from Mississauga, who is making waves as the new rising music star. Luna Elle's artistry is a rich combination of velvet like vocals, narrative-driven lyricism and soft melodies that are influenced by R&B greats she grew up on such as Jazmine Sullivan, Brandy, Toni Braxton, and Beyoncé. After her debut in 2021, Luna Ella caught the attention of many listeners including Chris Brown, and Shaquille O'Neal, both sharing clips of her music on Instagram, the latter declaring her "next up" in a caption. This year, Luna wants to continue chasing her passion for music with the goal of making a mark on the world with the release of her debut EP, 'Loss Of Valuable Energy'.

Maria: When was the day when you woke up and decided that this is what you want to do now?

Luna: I feel like it's always been something I've wanted to do since I was little. I had dreams of becoming like Beyonce and she's one of my biggest role models. And I've been singing ever since I was little so it's always been something that I've wanted to do.

Maria: How would you describe the genre of your music. What are your influences?

Luna: I'm very like a mix of old school and new school r&b. These are the ones that I'd definitely have a lot of influences like Beyonce, Jazmine Sullivan. So my older ones are Brandy and Tony.

Maria: How would you describe your creative process for writing your latest single Crazy?

Luna: It was very different. It was definitely very experimental, a lot of writing and rewriting. Usually like what I write at first kind of just sticks but this one I didn't have a direction on where I wanted to take it because it was something so new. So it was a lot of trial and error in comparison to my traditional song bit.

Maria: And what was the most unexpected thing that came out of your process of writing your song?

Luna: I think the most unexpected was that it was still kind of singing, but to a much more uptempo. Heavier, like it was more of a beat heavy song, but I was still able to showcase my vocals. Which was surprising for me because when I went into it, I was thinking of it more as just something to have fun with, which it was, but I also still got to show like, “oh, I can say I'm not just talking into a mic”. Yeah, so it's definitely changed a lot considering in the beginning days of me writing, I would really chop up the whole writing process. And I would take this section by section and take my breaks because I wasn't very comfortable writing and I didn't really know what I was doing. When I was writing the songs it was very like I just wasn't confident in it. And now that I've done it more often I've gained the confidence to do one more song and usually more than one song in a city. And I really think that it helps carry the same message throughout the song which makes the song in my opinion better. So I think that it's improved since the beginning.

Maria: Do you think your process of writing songs has changed in any way since you started releasing music?

Luna: I think it 100% has changed. It used to be very flowy. I would write one first, take a break, write the chorus, take a break and I would cut it up almost. But now I write like one full song in one sitting and I think it makes it flow better and I think it gets the message across better because I have I'm focusing on one thing for the whole time.

Maria: What advice would you have for someone wanting to follow in your footsteps?

Luna: I would say – go for it. Don't be afraid, you never know what's going to happen. You make a couple of mistakes and you grow from it. It's not the end of the world. And I think you never know what's gonna happen when you take that first initial job. You could blow up. So don't be afraid to just take a leap of faith and I think it'll benefit you 

Maria: Do you think you can be better as a musician? And if so, how would you achieve it?

Luna: I think I want to be less strict with myself. Because I tend to overthink a lot. And I think music, especially music, is very free. There's not that many rules, you can just do what you want to do. And I think it'd be better if I could learn to be more free with myself and not have to overthink each and every step of the way. Sometimes you just gotta feel it and see what happens.

Maria: If you can have your fans remember one thing about you, what would it be?
Luna: I think it would be my progression. I think it'll be the change from myself now to myself in the future. I'd love that to be remembered because I think that I still have a really long way to go. And I think that I will improve so much and the world would watch me do it. So I think it'd be really cool to be recognized for how much hard work I've put into my craft and how far I get with it.

Maria: Do you have any future projects coming up like new singles, new music videos, something that we can see or hear?

Luna: I'm always in the studio. I'm always making more. There's definitely gonna be a couple of new singles. And there is an album in the works and there might be a little something else but, you know, I'm not gonna say too much. I'm just gonna leave it at that. Yeah, definitely working on so be ready and expected. Yeah, that sounds really exciting. And I can't wait to hear it. So hopefully it will be out soon. 

Maria: What listeners can expect from your new projects?

Luna: The kind of sound that I've been putting out is going to be on some of the projects. But there's also going to be some afrobeats because I am ganyan myself so my background is African. Definitely going to play around with some afrobeats and more piano and just mixing and blending different genres together but mainly r&b afrobeats.

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