POrkR0ll and helloTONI were created by me!! Taniya or Tonii Udugampola! I was born in New York, but I currently reside in New Jersey. I’ve been a musician since I was wee lass. Sang while I was in diapers and started playing piano at three. My mother was my first piano teacher, before she realized that I don’t listen for shit and pawned me off on others.

Through out school I was involved in every music programs available to me. I joined several honors choirs both ACDA and NJMEA: All South Jersey, All State, and All Eastern—and even learned I ranked in the top 10 one year. I am a member of the TRI-M Music Honor Society and I have several awards in music that do nothing but decorate my mom’s hallway.

After graduation I attended Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. I studied vocal education and veered down the path of a classically trained musician. Respectfully speaking, although I appreciate and value all forms of music—I was never wanted to nor was I meant to be a classical musician. I switched majors to Arts Administration, which is now called Arts & Entertainment Industries Management. I graduated college in 2015 and hold a degree in Fine Arts. I’ve been lucky enough to study under several professional musicians, Founder and former Producing Executive Director of TexARTS Association and former Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Founder and Creative Director of the RockNRoll Chorus. As well as, a former VP of Legal Affairs of Warner Music Group who has also worked for Sony Music, Columbia and Epic Records. I’m not a name dropper but I will drop your title.

It’s important to me to cultivate an air of informality to encourage conversations that lack fear of judgement in all aspects of my life. As you can tell from this bio, I’m extremely informal, and I love it. I’ve always been strong believer in the “just-because-you-can-doesn’t-always-mean-you-should” mentality. Any who, fast forward to 2024 I’m currently the Fiscal and Marketing Manger of the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention team and a vocal, piano, guitar, and ukulele teacher at The Laboratory. I might need to pay the bills but music clearly has never left me.

Throughout the years I’ve made lots of connections and colleagues in the music industry that I want to share with everyone. That’s the idea behind this website, my friends are gonna kill me because I won’t stop saying it, but—I’m just a homie supporting homies. I want to use the knowledge that put me in thousands of dollars of debt to help others achieve their dreams—because I will be too busy paying off these student loans to do anything but cry into my empty wallet.