Luminessa (or ‘Lumi’) was born and raised in NYC. By the time she was 5, she'd developed an enormous fascination with music, art, storytelling, and performance. This obsession served as an invaluable outlet of expression throughout her childhood and adolescence. Her unconventional upbringing was accompanied by a vast diversity of personal experience– perspectives on which still shape her creative message to this day.

At 18 years old, she moved to Los Angeles, the entertainment epicenter of the US. After receiving her AS in Business from Santa Monica College, she then took courses at UCSD and UCLA. There she studied music production and recording, computer programming, art, and graphic design. In 2022, Lumi graduated with her BA from MIU, where she emphasized in filmmaking and new media, consciousness studies, and ayurveda.

Now in her third year as a full-time creative, Lumi has worked with hundreds of brands and fellow artists, both on commercial and artistic projects, as a fashion and commercial model, actor, dancer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, web developer, designer, and creative business coach. In everything she does, Luminessa endeavors to share an authentic representation of her journey with the world, to further radical self-expression, spiritual growth, peace, justice, and freedom.