Three episodes into a YouTube series she produces herself, one song on streaming platforms, and a film project in development: these are the active pieces of Miss Sunn’s 2026, and the Salt Lake City artist says she is managing all of it at 26.
Before any of this, she was writing poetry.
Writing and spoken word came first, she says, and the music grew from that practice rather than arriving separately. The progression from page to performance to record is the thread she traces through her own development, and it shows up in how she works: she treats music, film, and performance as expressions of the same creative instinct rather than as parallel careers.
Her song “Talk Back,” released in September 2026, was engineered by Geno_Beats and put out through Lab Junkies, the independent label she records for, with distribution across streaming platforms. She sang the background vocals herself, a credit that appears in the release metadata alongside Geno_Beats. The track is R&B, spare and direct. Miss Sunn says Lab Junkies plays a central role in how her music comes together, which is consistent with how she describes the rest of the operation: as something built close to the work, without the distance that comes with a major label deal.
Of Samoan and Fijian descent, Miss Sunn is deliberate about placing her Polynesian heritage at the center of her work. Polynesian artists in R&B represent a narrow category in what mainstream music tends to lift up. In Utah, where a substantial Pacific Islander population has established deep community roots over several decades, the contrast between how present that community is and how rarely Polynesian artists appear in popular music is not something people inside that community have missed. She says she is building from inside that gap, and that creating room for other artists who share that background is part of what she is doing.
EverythingMissSunn, her YouTube channel, carries an original series she calls Sunny Side Up, three episodes in. A project called Private Chef is in production. Between those and the music and live performance and acting work she describes as part of her practice, she runs a creative operation that doesn’t compartmentalize. Singer, dancer, actress, filmmaker: she uses all four to describe herself, and the current output doesn’t contradict any of them.
Salt Lake City’s R&B scene is small. Individual artists have made the argument for years that the genre can take root in the state. Jay Warren, an R&B singer based in the city, placed a debut album on the Apple Music R&B chart in 2020. Miss Sunn is working in the same city without borrowing from that precedent. Her music distributes digitally, geography matters less in independent music than it once did, and Salt Lake City appears in her story as where she is from rather than what she is counting on.
The writing background leaves a mark on the music whether or not it’s visible on the surface. A creative practice built first in language tends to approach a lyric from the inside rather than building backward from a melody. Moving from poetry into songwriting is a specific discipline, and the compression it requires tends to show up in the work that follows. “Talk Back” is one release and early, but the craft behind it points toward a particular kind of songwriter.
Motherhood, by her own account, is part of her life. She describes it as context, and the 2026 output pace suggests it has not interrupted the work.
Three episodes of Sunny Side Up are finished. Private Chef is still in development. The music catalog, for now, runs one release deep.
