Kj(!)

As a musician:
I pride myself on my technical ability, ability to connect, and energy in performance. I've been performing for over a decade and love connecting with people and creating experiences, and with music in particular I've been in weekly vocal coaching for the past half decade to hone my vocal and performance skills. I think I bring personality under a vocal tone, timbre and quality honed through years of practice. I'm professional, experienced, fun and bring an energy sure to help whatever event you need performance at! My MC experience also has given me skills with interacting with crowds, making sure events run smoothly, mobilizing a crowd towards a particular action, and creating an energy for an event.

As a dancer:
I'm proud to have a really deep understanding of the movements that I do, their histories, their cultural connotations, how to teach them, how to sequence and arrange them, and how to make them appealing to the layperson, both to learn and watch. I've set choreography for all intents and levels. I've set pieces for: amateur shows, semi-professional shows, professional shows, competitions, high schools, flash mobs, music videos, live music performances, and many more.

As a performer, I've been performing for over a decade and have again performed at every level and in every setting, as an amateur, semi-professional, professional, competitor, high schooler, flash mob, backup dancer, at parties, for television and stage shows. I've performed with the likes of Mark Ballas, Derek Hough, Lindsay Arnold, Brandon Armstrong, Witney Carson, and many more. I've performed, choreographed and taught all over Utah, Idaho and Nevada and I've competed all over the United States and England.

In all creative outlets a bring a professionalism, experience and energy to what I do, and a knowledge of craft an ability to understand and adapt to whatever is require of me!

I'm a musician and dancer who's been engaged in creative pursuits all my life. I started dancing about a decade and a half ago, and teaching about 3 years after that, and have been making music for the past five years, though I just started releasing music in at the beginning of the summer past (2023).

The Music Journey:
I like to say my music orbits around Hip Hop. It's certainly the connective thread of it all but I'm proud to make music that bends genre and takes influences from Pop, RnB, House, Rock, Pop Rock, and more. As I mentioned, I made music for five years but didn't tell anyone, even my closest friends, until four years in, and only released properly at the beginning of Summer. I say this to highlight my dedication to craft and delivery. I cared, and care, so much about delivering a good product I will go to any length to try to make sure that what I put out is a product or service I can be proud of. I've released an album and 7 singles so far, with a new single coming every two weeks, but I have hundreds of songs in the vault ready to be finished and released.

As far as live performance, I've only performed a handful of times, but have already taken the stage at a variety of different venues around Salt Lake City, from Kilby to Millennium to Invicta. Those live performances are helped by the fact that I've been in vocal training for the past five years as well and have extensive experience with performing on stage in dance, as mentioned below. I also have experience MCing a variety of events, from fundraisers to battles to shows.

The Dance Journey:
I began dancing at the age of 11, started doing it professionally, or semi-professionally, at 14 and started teaching at 16. Since then, almost a decade and a half ago now, I've become an under-18 world champion, won local and regional events, and choreographed, taught, and performed all over the Rocky Mountains area. I'm trained in all major styles of dance (hip hop, ballet, ballroom, jazz, contemporary, tap) but primarily teach, choreograph and perform Hip Hop and Ballroom. Those are also the two I feel most comfortable choregraphing, teaching and performing to a professional level, but I still have an understanding of a wide array of styles.

I have my own microphone, microphone cord, and backing tracks. I also have a speaker I could use if necessary, but it is not high enough quality that I recommend it for any events beyond teaching to a classroom. So I tend to need:

Speakers, any lighting desired by client, any stage materials desired by client.

I have a variety of musicians I've performed with and can perform with a band upon request but would need time and budget to assemble and rehearse with said band in preparation for any set.