Julian Hunter will produce an album of songs written, produced, mixed, and mastered by him. The album will explore themes of race, class, inequality, reconciliation, and love through a personal lens. Julian draws from the duality of his experiences being bi-racial, growing up in a low-income household and now attending Penn-one of the most hyper-affluent communities in America, and ultimately learning how to reconcile his past, to forge his future. He will also include a personal testimony from his grandmother, who grew up before the Civil Rights era, in an audio sample on the album. As Julian noted in his application, he wishes to spark more dialogue “about expressing personal experience and telling stories good or bad” and he hopes this project will “serve as an example that you can pursue your artistic passions at this school while also benefitting from its preprofessional nature.”
