KingJu1c3

Bellflower

KingJu1c3, a combat veteran of the U.S. armed forces, has been singing, writing and making music since age 14 or 15. In high school, he says, music was something “on the side.” After high school, he joined the military, came back, earned a master’s degree and then, just about the time he was starting to take music seriously, the pandemic happened. His music career, like so much else around the world, was interrupted. “Basically, I took a break, and now I’m starting back up and getting back into music,” he said. Now 35, Ju1c3 said, “If I were to condense it to how long I’ve been doing music nonstop, I would say about five years.” He is from Bellflower, California, one of the suburbs of Los Angeles. In his bio, he says that his music explores “the paradoxes and complexities of the human experience,” and he puts into his rhymes “the pain and struggles of war, navigating life after service, and the resilience of the human spirit.”