User talk:KiraMichele

Kira Michele (Kira Crandall) (born April 9th, 1998), daughter of Barbie Perkins & Steven Crandall, is an American Country/Rock/Rockin Blues, Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist. She self released her DEMO CD "Breathe". Breathe sold over 6000 CD copies locally, in Kira's home town, Tacoma Washington.

Kira started her music journey at the 18 of 7, when she first started playing guitar. Kira learned by ear on a Pink Fender Electric Guitar. She played the electric guitar up until age 12. At the age of 12, she picked up an Acoustic Guitar. She hasn't put it down since. She started writing music at the age of 11, and sang her first Original song "Junior High Schooler" at her 8th grade talent show and promotion. Ever since Kira was 3 years old, she was singing. From doing talent shows at the age of 8 - 18, and playing at some occasional open mic nights. Michele graduated in a school in Spanaway, Washington called "Bethel High School". Where she won the district talent show, and all of the school talent shows. By the time Kira was 15, she had already written over 40 different songs.

Kira grew up in a childhood that was full of family issues and she experienced many traumatic events. As a result, Kira was very lost and felt uncentered. The only way she knew how to get through all of the pain, was to write songs and play guitar.

When Kira graduated, she moved to a town called "Hosmer" in Tacoma Washington. She was in a very emotionally and physically abusive relationship for 5 years, which she ended up moving to Hosmer with her partner. There were shootings in the neighborhood she lived in and lots of drug activity. She worked at Subway, then Jimmy Johns, then Kia of Puyallup and then Walmart. Kira quit every job she ever had. She ended up selling all of her guitars for Marijuana and Alcohol. She would get in many verbal fights with people in the area and was always surrounded by people who did drugs or were in gangs.

CAREER: At the age of 18, Kira found it inside her again to play guitar and write music. She went to guitar center in Tacoma Washington, and bought a $112 acoustic guitar. Where she wrote her most downloaded song "Breathe" on. Kira tried searching through the industry to find a way to share her music. She had no idea what she was doing, but she just kept on moving. Michele went through many different people in the local music scene that she thought could help her. None of them worked out. They all wanted too much money, had no game plan or had other intentions in mind.

In March 2017, Kira Michele was on Instagram, and found this studio called "Decade Sound Studios" in Tacoma Washington. A half a million dollar studio built and owned by national touring sound engineer, Shad Woodman. Shad Woodman had been in the industry over 30 years by the time Kira met him. When she messaged him on Instagram, they set up a time for Kira to go down to the studio. Shad had toured around the world with national acts such as; Whitney Houston, The Goo Goo Dolls, Linkin Park, The Offspring and many more. Shad Woodman heard Kira play guitar and sing, and was blown away by her songwriting abilities.

Shad Woodman had a couple of female musicians that were actively looking for a band, so Shad joined the three girls and formed a band called "The Reason". Shad saw that Kira excelled those girls by a long shot, and soon Kira just became a solo musician.

Woodman built Michele's entire website presence and store... which ended up taking off. Kira took all of the education that Woodman was teaching her, and started building her own online presence as a musician. Kira and Shad have been working every day for 3 years on Kira's career, and haven't stopped.

Fast forward to March 2020, Kira Michele has over 105,000 website orders off of her website KiraMichele.Com, over 50,000 song downloads, and her first single going out May 1st 2020 called, "Don't Leave Me" ft. Caleb Twidwell, and she embarked on her first tour around the PNW in February 2020. With a data base of almost 70 million people who have interacted with her online, 105,000 website orders, 50,000 song downloads, over 7000 Facebook Followers, over 13,000 Instagram followers, she is now a verified artist on Spotify and can bring in a pretty decent crowd to any shows. Kira and Shad have built and are continuing to build Kira Michele's career, so that she can impact more people's lives with her music.

Kira writes music about real life Hope and Healing. Every time she plays a show, people leave crying because of the emotional impact Kira's music has on them. "I want to give people the words to say when they don't know how to explain what they are going through" says Kira Michele.

To learn more about Kira, visit her website KiraMichele.Com and read her biography and follow her on social media.