While John Jay Hall may look like your typical first-year dorm, its residents are quickly discovering that they have a fledgling pop musician in their midst. 

Freshman Danny Murcia has started an internship at Atlantic records, working underneath a woman in artist development who is helping to manage the career of Bruno Mars. "Yeah, it's really exciting," Danny says.

"I think he has a good variety, and he's definitely found his sound early on," says a floormate on John Jay 7.

Not only has Danny landed an internship at one of the most prestigious record labels in the world, he also recently completed a two track EP entitled "Nothing to Prove" - singing and producing everything on his own.

Danny works from the comforts of his dorm room in John Jay 7 where develops new beats and melodies. Of his catchy dance pop sound, Danny said: "The dancier stuff has come as a result of trying to get a wider reach, and trying to make music more feel-good."

Danny launched a website, listentodanny.com, that offers free downloads of his new songs. Thanks to a grassroots movement from his friends on John Jay 7, the site has had thousands of hits in just over a week. Kalena Zimmerman of John Jay 7, explained the campaign: "At 3 AM we went up to fifteenth floor and worked our way down, writing on every board. The next morning everyone was wondering what happened."

 "We're also thinking of putting a giant sign in front of Alma mater's hand so everyone walking on campus will see it," says another John Jay 7 friend. "We'll see where creativity takes us and get the word out. Everyone has to listen to Danny. Everyone in this entire world: Prezbo, President Obama, everyone, listen to Danny."

Apart from his solo career, Danny sings in the Columbia a cappella group Notes and Keys, which recorded an album over the weekend featuring two Danny Murcia arrangements.

He has a lot of really good input that most people don't have because he's a musician," says Freshman and fellow Notes & Keys Zach Vargas-Sullivan. "It's really good to have him there."

Danny hopes to major in music with a concentration in economics.

"it's definitely been a life long dream, but it's more of an evolving dream," Danny says of his career aspirations. "It kind of started out as 'i want to be jimi hendrix', then it kind of moved to 'i want to be Michael Jackson' and now it's kind of like, i would like to be sort of a songwriter/producer, kind of like Bruno Mars-starting out songwriting and eventually coming out as an artist in his own right so that's kind of the dream right now."