Kyra Brown, songwriter and guitar strummer, started singing in church a million years ago, and until about the age of 8. Her musical career paused for a few years to deal with the regular childhood dramas and traumas, then picked up again with the random choice of playing clarinet in the 6th grade marching band. That lasted 2 weeks. Since the flute was much prettier and shinier and didn't require sucking flat wooden sticks, she decided this would be the instrument of choice. Throughout her junior and senior high school musical career, she added piccolo, french horn, and keyboards. The only singing performance during that time was a short stint as the coronor munchkin in her high school's version of "The Wizard of Oz". She would also occasionally belt out some Janet Jackson with her girlfriends at the local swimming pool. At age 15, she took another long music career pause to deal with the regular teenage dramas and traumas. At age 21, she moved to San Francisco from the Midwest and soon was singing back-up in a band called Kranky. She quickly moved to lead and has been singing in band after band ever since..her own and others, as both lead and back-up singer. She picked up the guitar soon after picking up singing in the rock band way, and has been playing ever since. She's also picked the flute back up again in the last few years and whips it out now and then, along with a little red accordian among other toys.