Kristen Young

Bio: For Kristen Young, life began in Peterborough Ontario, a small city with an ever growing heart for the arts. At 13 years of age, lyric and music writing began to play a key role in Kristen’s life while dealing with teenage issues. At first her music was written on piano, by ear without instruction. When Kristen was 16, a boyfriend shared his passion of guitar with her and strongly encouraged Kristen to take his home and learn to play after teaching her a few chords. That night she wrote ...

Bio: For Kristen Young, life began in Peterborough Ontario, a small city with an ever growing heart for the arts. At 13 years of age, lyric and music writing began to play a key role in Kristen’s life while dealing with teenage issues. At first her music was written on piano, by ear without instruction. When Kristen was 16, a boyfriend shared his passion of guitar with her and strongly encouraged Kristen to take his home and learn to play after teaching her a few chords. That night she wrote a song with 3 minor chords, two strings and her heart fully dilated. At 18 Kristen recorded a 5 song demo at the local Peterborough recording studio and entered it a year later into a 101.5 WOLF FM radio competition in which she won first place. “With her natural guitar talent, and husky, soulful voice, it wasn’t surprising she won over the crowd and the judges” Sarah Peesker – Peterborough Examiner. After playing many small gigs in her home town, meeting other amazing musicians and exploring different recording styles and opportunities, Kristen has many different and unique recordings of her one of a kind Canadian acoustic sound. Within the last two years (2008 – 2010) Kristen Young has trained with renowned opera star Maria Pellegrini and vocal sensation Trina Langthorne. With a soulful voice blended in blues, folk, pop and rock, Kristen Young expresses raw and genuine lyrics along with a very unique style delivering a sound like Alanis meets R&B, Jewel, but most importantly, her own. Each performance, recording and music experience gives this artist many challenges with no boundaries to where the music will take her. When Kristen Young feels passionate about a song or situation, she will move towards it no matter what the rest of the music world feels ‘should be’. Kristen is artistically focused, keeping her music real, objective and generally tasteful while giving edge to each song she writes.