The Austin 100: Audrey Nuna

By Stephen Thompson

Published March 17, 2020 at 5:00 AM EDT

Hometown: Manalapan, New Jersey

Genre: Hip-Hop

Why We're Excited: At 20, singer-rapper Audrey Chu — she goes by the stage name Audrey Nuna — has already had a wide-ranging career, with credits ranging from a Google Pixel commercial to a string of gigs singing "The Star Spangled Banner" before sporting events. Now, she's a fast-rising rapper whose flow captures a bleary-eyed swirl of aspiration, hedonism and deeply complicated romance.

Listen to Audrey Nuna's "Comic Sans"

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Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)

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