Michelle Núñez has been writing songs for as long as she has known how to listen. Words and melody have always been the way she makes sense of the world. Before ever stepping in front of a camera, she was on small stages sharing music, poetry, and spoken word, learning how stories can heal when they are spoken out loud.
As an actor and emerging filmmaker, her latest project, Paper Cranes, is in development, a film about grief, identity, forgiveness, and the quiet ways we find our way home. Her work across film and television has been featured on ABC, BET, and at festivals including Tribeca and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Her background in theater includes performances at the TECO Theater at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Grand Central Stage, Stageworks, and the Catherine Hickman Theater.
As an Afro-Dominican woman and the daughter of an immigrant single mother who served in the U.S. military, Michelle comes from a background that deeply informs the stories she tells and how she tells them. Raised in a nomadic family, she found stability in creativity, shaping her into an artist who channels emotional depth, spiritual questioning, and quiet courage through her work.
Michelle made her music debut with the heartfelt single “making the most of it,” blending raw vulnerability with cinematic storytelling. Her original songs “california, home” and “i’m fine, i'm okay” offer soul-stirring reflections on grief, belonging, and inner strength. Drawing on her roots as a poet and performer, her writing is deeply personal, often echoing the complexities of being human with honesty and grace.
From daydreams of childhood and family to spiritual reckonings and hard-fought growth, Michelle’s sound lives in the space between pain and hope. Whether accompanied by soft acoustics or layered with ambient textures, her voice is a steady guide through life’s quiet reflections.
Currently living a life on the road, Michelle continues to create music, write stories, and perform work that celebrates the complexity of the human experience. Her goal is simple: to make the most of it.