based on something else, either the music I’ve been listening to that month, or something I listened to when I was little. It’s different every time.
SCV: What are you listening to now?
Nuni: I’m loving Space Cowboy right now. I just bought “Pop The Glock” by Uffie. And Black Diamond by Buraka Som Sistema. I also had a fixin’ for Nico, but that was, like, last month.
SCV: Isn’t “The Velvet Underground” so last month?
Nuni: (Laughs.) Sooo last month.
SCV: It seems you have one foot in the music industry and the other in academia. What type of challenges has that presented?
Nuni: In one sense I think getting into the studio has added to the veracity of what I have set out to do and put it all into context. It’s one thing to write a song in the confines of your bedroom and another thing to structure it within the parameters of a studio.
SCV: What has been your formal training in music?
Nuni: Well, I was a Musical Theatre major, even in high school. I went to Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. I was able to dance and to sing, and I was classically trained in both. Getting that ballet training, jazz, classical voice, without them I would not be where I am today. You need to have the background.
SCV: With respect to the type of music you seek to put out you mentioned earlier that you are intrigued by the satire of things. Can you please explain?
Nuni: I guess I see things in a heightened way, I would call it “NuniLand” in a sense. My friends would always get on my case for acting like I was constantly in a music video. I know I’m not in a music video, so that’s the satirical part. To me, that’s funny, getting into that world. I always want that to be there. How funny is it to sing about sex in mansions, in mansions in the Hamptons?
SCV: Is it true that you have been to the Hamptons?
Nuni: I have.
SCV: And you stayed in a mansion?
Nuni: Yes.
SCV: And you had sex in that mansion?
