Kelly's feelings about music are deeply held and fiercely passionate. Exhibit A: Kelly, age 9, threatens to set fire to the family piano if lessons don't cease pronto. Exhibit B: Kelly, age 13, persuades her high school band director to slip her a key to the band room so she can cut class and practice drums, her real love, instead of clarinet, which she has been issued despite her protestations. (No threat to set the licorice stick ablaze, though. Evidently, even though they’re both made of wood, clarinets don't burn nearly as well as pianos do.) She grew up listening to Queensryche, Deep Purple, Metallica and Testament, but her musical tastes at present are somewhat more mercurial (current favorites include The Gathering, Ozric Tentacles and Steely Dan). Kelly is a professional writer, having studied creative fiction writing and literature. She's also a 1st Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, Hosin Jitsu. Given Kelly's past, releasing a CD with the word "Pyre" in the title is something of a dicey proposition. Thankfully, however, the only fire she's generating these days comes from her incendiary vocal and percussion performances with Persephone's Dream.

Source: http://www.persephonesdream.com