Greetings from The
BAY AREA! In honor of my spring break spent up here I'd like to welcome you all to our 5th edition of
Paving the Way to Paid Dues. For this edition of Paving the Way to Paid Dues we're going to switch it up a bit, we feature our first young woman in our series stationed in the Bay Area, Ms. Kristine Flaherty, more popularly known as K.Flay. You may have heard esoteric voice floating around on youtube or even on stage with some of the most iconic artists of the Hip Hop game such as Ludacris and Snoop Dogg. A one man act K.Flay has written and produced her own work as well as rap and play her guitar. An Illinois native and the proud owner of a double degree from Stanford University in California, no one including herself, anticipated her to fall into music. It was sort of a whim, what started off as her just writing lyrics for a friend down the hall has acclimated into a melding of music that speaks to her unique experience. Some may argue that she is strictly indie dipping into hip hop, or just an electric artist riding the trend wave, but her journey and music is not to be misconstrued as a passing phase. During her years in the Bay Area she became enthralled with Bay Area rap artist E-40 and dabbled around throwing versus out amongst friends, but it was in that exact creative outlet that K.Flay was able to infuse her musical influences of funk, soul, indie, electric and of course her new found fascination with the distinct hip hop sound of the Bay Area, and create eclectic music.
