AUDREY NUNA

Audrey Nuna, a native of New Jersey, glides fluidly from delicate pop-R&B ballads to cocky rap cuts. The vocalist, emcee, and tunesmith launched her commercial output in 2018 and secured a contract with a major label the year after. Her debut full-length, A Liquid Breakfast, surfaced in 2021. Among the many singles that came afterward were “Sardines,” “Locket,” and the Teezo Touchdown collaboration “Starving,” which led into her second album, Trench, issued in 2024.

Born Audrey Chu and initially active under the name Audrey, she first crafted music while still in high school, sharing cover versions on Instagram. During her time at Brooklyn’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music she met producer Anwar Sawyer, who later served as her manager. Her earliest commercial singles appeared independently in 2018, opening with three contrasting ballads before she revealed a casual swagger on “Honeypot.” After two further releases in 2019 she joined Arista—the label Clive Davis founded in 1974 and headed until 2000—and made her major-label bow that year with “Time,” followed by “Paper” and the brash Jack Harlow collaboration “Comic Sans.”

Rebranding as Audrey Nuna, she issued another group of singles in 2020, among them “Damn Right” and its DJ Snake-assisted sequel. A ten-track set mixing prior material with new songs arrived in May 2021 as A Liquid Breakfast. That December “Damn Right” appeared in an episode of Insecure. Nuna then completed a 17-cut deluxe edition of A Liquid Breakfast, released in January 2022. Across 2022 and 2023 she supplied five tracks, including “Sardines,” “IDGAF,” and “Locket,” each quickly eclipsing one million streams. In 2024 she offered a noticeably softer sequence of singles that featured “Starving” with Teezo Touchdown, “Jokes on Me,” and the stuttering “Mine,” which reworked Brandy and Monica’s 1998 hit “The Boy Is Mine.” Trench, her second full-length, arrived that October.