Julia Loretta Romero grew up outside of Boston, where she experienced a childhood rich with exposure to the arts and encouragement to create. Raised by a classically trained opera singer and portrait artist, she remembers overhearing piano and voice lessons taking place in the living room, and her Mother's detailed pastels sitting on the easel. 

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She has taken solace in creativity throughout life, beginning as a girl with oil painting, piano lessons and singing, both at home and with the New England Conservatory Children's Chorus. 

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She first explored genuine expression as a visual artist during adolescence, through close attention to dreams, energy and solitude in nature, and received her BFA from Green Mountain College in 2011.

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She began composing and recording original music in 2018 and creates within the neoclassical, choral, ambient and new-age genres, layering improvised harmonies for an experience both grounding and ethereal. 

 

Julia paints and records from a home studio in the Appalachian Mountains north of Asheville, NC, alongside self-taught lyricist/instrumentalist/composer/producer husband Matthew Gabriel Romero.