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Centrella is a hip-hop recording artist and filmmaker from Wilkes Barre, PA, currently residing in Staten Island, NY.
Born in 1994, Centrella’s path was not an easy one. Entering the foster care system at the age of seven, as a result of his mother’s struggles with heroin addiction and the
absence of his father, he lived in over 20 homes and institutions before aging out of
the system at 18. From there, Centrella, who began writing music in his early teens as
an outlet to channel his emotions, focused resolutely on a future in the music and film industries.
Centrella funded his education through scholarships and grants, all while working as a line cook, and he defied the odds; becoming the first in his family — and one of the
four percent of foster children in America—to graduate college. The artist transferred from community college to Penn State Worthington, and finally to NYU’s prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts. Graduating in 2017, Centrella immediately went to work on his debut project, Happy Home.
Telling a story close to his heart, Happy Home consists of an EP and a short film that
details Centrella’s early life and placement into foster care. Happy Home follows the
life of a child in the foster care system, and also brings to light the growing heroin
epidemic in the artist’s home town of Wilkes Barre. Through his work, Centrella
hopes to make a difference for others struggling in foster care.
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