Tell us a bit about yourself. (Location, artist name, the works!)

My name is Dr. Louis Jungmayer, artist name Mouksa, the front man of the MU Underground. I am located in Budapest, Hungary. I was born in Pittsburgh, Pa on February 28th, 1959, the second child to Hungarian refugees from the 1956 Hungarian revolution. I joined the Hippie movement when I started 7th grade at South Junior High School and began to travel with older friends the following year - eventually moving to California. Living in mostly in the greater San Francisco area for twenty years, I became friends with several Bay area legends of rock and at times played music with some of them.

What's your musical origin story? (when did you start? What inspired you?)

I wrote my first song at the age of three for my stuffed dog. My music was inspired by the horrible things of my early childhood. My memory goes back to the summer of 1961 Berlin Crisis, then the 1962 Cuban Crisis, the 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy and the start of the Vietnam War. Although I loved the early 1960s pop music of The Four Seasons, Roy Orbison and Dion, what I really loved was the Folk music of those times with such greats as Peter Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Kingston Trio, etc. Another and even greater inspiration was the British Invasion of 1964-1966 starting from seeing the first concert of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show.

As far as my musical development goes, I started taking piano lessons for three years from 1965 to 1967 then switching to drums (although I didn't have a drum kit). Another part of me was into expressing myself in words poems first and then song lyrics. This need to voice my ideas on various topics had begun Folk Music and continued with the later 1960s Psychedelic and harder rock sounding music of the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s. In 1975 I fell into being the singer of an amateur band of friends, as I was the only one who didn't learn an instrument.

How would you describe your style of music?

My style of music is a combination of classic rock, blues, eastern and a bit of punk at times.

How is your personality reflected in your work?

My lyrics reflect my beliefs and the message I want to get out to the world. I am a wild man on stage and in smaller venues I interact with the audience during the songs.

Describe your creative process when you write new music.

I have written around 300 songs and recorded about 240. Sometimes the lyrics come first, other times the music – and sometimes both at once! At times it's almost like I see the whole song at once…….other times it's a slow process!

What is the name of your latest releases?

Lost Tapes……..because we found 5 songs from 15 years earlier that were half way done in the studio and forgotten about.

What strategies do you find most effective for promoting your music?

Well, MU Underground has its own social media manager. He uses the organic growing strategy and works on promoting the band regularly. You can find MU Underground on all the mainstream social media platforms and we share content on some underground sites too. We print stickers, with a QR code on it which brings the people who scan it to our linktree website and share these stickers with the visitors on our concert. Stickers brought us a lot of new followers.

How do you engage with your fans online and offline?

Online: With posting stuff regularly. Offline: with giving an amazing and very energetic live show, selling our merch products there and give away these cool stickers.

What upcoming promotional activities or releases are you most excited about?

Basically, we're pretty excited about this interview to appear on your website because based on our experience you made a very neat job spreading our words. Our statistics grew on Bandcamp since you shared our promotional codes and also we're really happy about the radio stream too.

How can folks contact you (socials/email/websites etc.)

• Main website: https://linktr.ee/muundergroundofficial
• Old website with BIO: http://mouksaunderground.hu/en/eletrajz/
• Main email: muunderground.official@gmail.com

Is there anything else of interest that we should have asked about? Please include it here.

I highly recommend everyone reading my BIO on our old website. Thanks for having me/us.