R.L. Lyone

Rose Lukwago, better known by her pen name R.L. Lyone, is a writer, world-builder, and hybrid filmmaker. She originally wanted to be a singer/songwriter and music producer, writing songs and creating compositions using DAW's and MIDI instruments since the age of 16. In her mid-20's, she shifted her focus to business and AI prompt engineering, in which she became proficient in prompting for AI sound design and music composition, AI image generation, and AI video production.

Her professional career began by entering songwriting competitions and working as an intern at the award-winning Cue Recording Studios in 2017. In 2020, she founded the music-entertainment startup Thaideke LLC and completed the UI/UX design for their independent music streaming service and online music store Sonicol. Sonicol was designed to be a comprehensive music and fan community platform specifically created for Generation Z.

In 2024, she made the decision to officially dissolve Thaideke and head in another direction. The main factors in this decision were a Zoom conversation with PledgeMusic's founder Benji Rogers, the shutdown of Live Undiscovered Music (LUM), and the rise of generative AI.

Rose founded Lyone Media Group in 2025 to manage the expanding intellectual property library of her original fictional universe and published the AI micro-short project "Vessel of Mourning" in 48 hours for the Runway Gen:48 competition using various generative AI image, music, and video tools. While the film los…