JuJu Walker

JuJu Walker calls it Gumbo Soul — because like the dish, you use what you have. Half Mediterranean Italian, half Black, born in Hawaiʻi as a military brat, shaped by a church-pioneering family in Detroit, and rooted by a Louisiana husband and five daughters — she has never lived inside one lane. So she stopped trying to fit and started cooking. Gumbo Soul is her self-coined genre: Gospel, Soul, R&B, and Melodic Rap layered the way her life has been — rich, complex, and made from everything she’s carried. The sound sits between a worship set and a late-night conversation with God. Honest enough to make you uncomfortable. Sacred enough to make you stay. Her debut EP Daddy Issues (2026) is a six-track healing arc — Wound to Fight to Surrender to Rise to Declaration to Worship — written for every woman who kept her faith even after the people who carried it let her down. Featured on Holy Culture Radio (SiriusXM) and. Now spinning in Illinois and Nigeria. This is Gumbo Soul. www.jujuwalkermusic.com