Julia Nunes

Julia was born in New York and grew up in Rochester. Her father is a pianist and composed children's songs. One grandfather was a Portuguese composer of fado music and her other grandfather was a jazz pianist. Julia started piano lessons at age seven before switching to the guitar in her early teens. She started writing songs at age 14 and began playing the ukulele in 2005. She also plays guitar and melodica. She indicated in the comments section of one of her YouTube videos that she holds dual USA-Portuguese citizenship. Julia is well known for her Youtube channel, "jaaaaaaa". Among her various videos are original songs, as well as covers of some of Nunes' favorite bands,: Say Anything, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Destiny's Child. Her original songs have been featured on the Youtube's Main Page twice, through the above username, which she says was the result of holding down the "a" key randomly after the "j" key, the first and last letters of her first name. She has released five