ruie Mullins

ruie is a jazz vocalist, a fiber artist, writer and published poet.  “I began singing at the age of three or four, I’m not really sure, as it was a while back, she says with a broad smile.”  But, she remembers being on stage in a Kansas City radio studio standing on a box behind a very large  microphone that literally covered her face as she sang “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” to a studio audience.  “They gave me a standing ovation, and I knew then that singing was to be my life”. 

Sample of beautiful hand made Fantasy Figures by ruie - To purchase, please email ruie at rumu1844@gmail.comPerforming on many of the early television musical variety shows in Los Angeles, CA and singing in clubs throughout Southern California she kept her dream alive.  But fate stepped in a few years ago and ruie lost her hearing and although she still sings, she has shifted her creative talents to include fiber art,in the form of unique Fantasy Figures; no two are alike and are created in her workshop using only environmentally safe materials, e.g. pine for the body, silk and  cotton and oven baked clay and acrylic paint for the faces in her spare time she also  loves to write stories and poetry and is a published poet along with her co-author Castadarrow Thompkins with their book TWO POETS.

She is divorced and the mother of six children, 13 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.  Her life has been full of adventure traveling all over the globe to far off countries such as China, were she lived for a little over six months to Portugal, Spain, Greece, Germany and most of Western Europe.

“I am a gypsy and moving about is something I must do, I think it must be genetic; my great grandmother came from a mountain village in Romania; and my father from Ireland, my mother was French; I am a person of the universe.”