TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah and… Vudoo Soul?
I’ve known Chris Vu, aka the artist known as Vudoo Soul, for just over seven years now. We met while auditioning for the all-male a cappella group at MIT (the Logarhythms. You know you love math puns), and after being rejected by every other singing group on campus, he was taken by the Logs, but only after major deliberation. You see, seven years ago Chris Vu was musically illiterate. The totality of his musical experience amounted to one public performance of the “Star-Spangled Banner” in high school. He had a raw, powerful tenor voice, but no vocal or musical training of any kind. That would change. Fast. After a few years honing his tremendous musical and performing potential, he went from wowing audiences with the Logs to blowing away American Idol judges and getting himself to Hollywood. His junior year, he taught himself the piano and started writing music. After finishing up at MIT as one of the best vocal talents the campus had ever seen, Vu made a decision that undoubtedly gave his parents nightmares and abandoned a career in electrical engineering for the capricious world of music.
Some three years of grueling work later, there’s news. Big news. News that has caused Vu to describe himself as “fuckin hella megatron pumped.” BPRlive is also “fuckin hella megatron pumped” to announce that Vu just recently inked a deal with Straight Up Funky Music, a record label headed by Steve Keitt, who has produced for TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and Queen Latifah amongst others. My main man, who seven short years ago had no idea what musical notation was, had never played any instruments, and had one performance of the “Star-Spangled Banner” under his belt, is now officially grown up. Vu once told me a story about how Alicia Keys described her own path to stardom as “an overnight success years in the making.” Vu, your own years of hard work are paying off big time. Know that your BPAC family loves you and will be cheering and supporting you all the way!!
Here’s Vu’s personal message announcing the big news. Have some of that, haters!
Vudoo Soul Goes National from BPR on Vimeo.
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Wow. That’s cool.
Yo Eugene, don’t act like you just found out. That was you behind the camera!
Anyway though, that is cool.
Right. It’s cool because I was sitting a mere 3 feet from Vu. I could almost smell his cologne.