After Laura's biological father abandoned her at birth, Laura tried to contact him at the age of ten. During this first and only phone conversation with her so-called biological father, whom Laura had never met tried to convince Laura he wasn't her father and expressed clearly he wanted nothing to do with her or Laura's mother.
It made sense many years later when Laura's mother explained to her how Laura's mental illness diagnoses was hereditary and was passed down from her biological father's side of the family. At the time Laura was conceived her biological father offered Laura's mother a corvette in exchange if Laura’s mother would agree to have an abortion. Laura's biological father felt strongly about not supporting the birth of the child due to the mental illness of schizophrenia that ran in his family. He refused to take any responsibility for a child who would eventually have the same mental defect his mother suffered from.
Fortunately, Laura's mother refused to have an abortion and gave birth to a miracle child, thus Birthday Gurl was born into the world as Laura Grace Robles, who would later become the Queen Of Hearts an artist who paints only hearts. Laura Grace Robles was born in San Antonio Texas in July of 1982, she grew up near the stage performing at a young age by her mother's side during the time her mother was a theater director and Drama teacher at John F Kennedy High School.
Laura studied with her mother during her teenage years, writing skits for holiday shows and winning many prestigious scholarships and academic awards such as the Hispanic Heritage Awards Scholarship, the Coca Cola scholarship and many others along side All-Star Cast, as well as the Best Actress award from her school and for U.I.L. One Act Play competition.
Birthday Gurl became a painter in 2003, a video artist in 2006, and continues to write poetry and lyrics which she performs with her bandmate Ronald Mark Peters in the future wave electronic musical project Mystic Frequencies. An electronic musical group who experiments with synthesizers, drum machines, sequencers and other electronic instruments such as the theremin.
Birthday Gurl is inspired by the hidden world of love and dreams coming together as an appropriation of her broken hearted imagination by using a child like free spirited, psychedelic abstract, expressionistic language to paint street art on canvas and other objects for a gallery and museum setting.
As a visual artist Birthday Gurl has fallen in love with painting hearts because it saved her life, by helping her learn to love and accept herself no matter her imperfections. Her obsession with painting hearts has been a form of art therapy for her. and her search for self healing, self love, self respect, self worth, peace, anti war, forgiveness and self acceptance has brought her closer to becoming an artist with a positive message to share with others who seek the same kind of energy and love in their lives.
Eventually when Birthday Gurl started studying art at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Business at The University of Incarnate Word, she realized she wanted to create a type of visual poetry as a professional video artist who used spoken word to combine with exhibited video installation and musical performance for galleries and museums.
In 2019 and 2020 Robles was asked to display her video art film’s and poetry using single-channel projection to showcase alongside a spoken word performance by herself and other artists at Texpop, as she played the theremin at The South Texas Museum Of Pop Culture in San Antonio, Texas. Birthday Gurl also showcased at the Luminaria Arts Festival, Arts Come to Life in San Antonio, Texas with large scale outdoor single channel projection on the Henry B. Gonzales Center in downtown San Antonio's Hemisphere Park. To accompany a live musical performance by Leadswan as well as exhibiting at Presa House Gallery with Ila Minori among many other artists and at many other art venues, studios, and galleries.
When the artist emerged as Birthday Gurl she showcased her work for well known artists and national acts at live musical performances using projection for Rakim the 80’s hip hop legend, Gordon Raphael the producer of The Strokes and Grammy award winner, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars Volta. Birthday Gurl also showcased during the opening acts for The Octopus Project, Com Truise and Machinedrum. The artist’s experimental video art films and poems have been featured in the Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival from 2018-2020, as well as selected by The Art Film Awards in 2021 and was awarded a trophy for being selected as a finalist. Her youtube channel was also featured in the South Florida Poetry Journal as a featured video poet.
Birthday Gurl was also featured in two foreign films, acting as herself in one titled Pregnant, directed by United Kingdom's Fabrizio Federico , a film concerned with societies’ addiction to technology, and the other film titled Mondo Lizard A Guide To Gonzo Cinema, a film directed by Whales Rubber Cripple aka Jason Marsh featuring the underground pioneers and film makers, and video artists whom forged their way through the D.I.Y punk cinema movement, paying homage to the PINK 8 Manifesto and Dogma 95 Manifesto by Lars Von Trier.