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Theatre stage debut, age 6, performing as one of the King’s children in Rogers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I”, in Duluth, MN.

Formed first band @ age 12. They landed an audition with RCA records within a year. However, she was not quite 13 years old and her parents required her to move 2000 miles away from the band [to live in Seattle with her mother] only 2 weeks before the band's scheduled audition.

Actor, (with Seattle's Black Arts West Repertory Theatre): Dream on Monkey Mountain; Slaveship.

By 16, she was playing 12 instruments, including designing and creating bass kalimbas, and becoming a composer and a songwriter.

Chorus member, first edition of the Total Experience Gospel Choir, Seattle, WA..

Lead singer for Tamaraw, Seattle, WA. (A 10-11 piece ensemble similar to Tower of Power, Seawind.)

Offered solo recording contract by Ivory Tower Records, [owned by Joseph Jackson, the sire of the Jacksons, (Michael, Janet...)] She declined the deal for personal reasons, then went on the road.

Music Co-Director, keyboardist, vocalist and percussionist with her new band 34 Park Avenue, (base: Seattle, WA.)

Music Director and keyboardist for a "boy band", a group of men performing under the name "Paradise", later renamed "Paramour." (base: Honolulu, HI.)

Commissioned by Rosebud Productions, (Redding, CA)., to compose the score for a youth dance production they were envisioning. She was also hired as Music Director to facilitate the performance of it.

Production Deal: 8 Mile/John Lodge

[After the 8 Mile deal, the artist left the stage completely to build her recording and production skills, working under the psuedonym, "Mirai".]

Teamed up with producer Richard (“Dick”) Rudolph, manager, Brian Avnet, songwriter/producer, Don Freeman, and engineer, Warren Giancatarino to simultaneously secure

an offer for a solo deal from MCA/Universal’s Jheryl Busby and
an offer from A&M Records' John McClain to sign her for a project centered around her and Lenny Kravitz, [before he recorded his first solo album, when he was still working under the pseudonym “Romeo Blue”].
On manager’s advice, signed as a solo artist, songwriter and co-publisher with MCA/Universal.

During those negotiations, she produced double album of vocal improv entitled “as changes go.”

Music Director for the Foundation for Global Understanding, (Maui, HI.) Produced a beautiful New Age/World album for the nonprofit, combining computers and live artists, including harpist Melissa Morgan, percussionist Glen Valez and shakuhachi master Masayuki Koga. Not distributed.

Translated the Tzolkin into sound, (the current music technology at that time was capable of rendering only single-octave translations.)

In late 1990, the artist was felled by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), almost entirely derailing her career. Early to mid-90’s: Met Maurice White, who loaned her the music technology needed to translate the Tzolkin into multiple octaves; attempted a creative collaboration with harpist VonnetteYanaginuma, (later joined by Vonnette's husband, guitarist Bud Rizzo); produced (not released) 5 Eps; launched the MERE Project Charitable Trust; and shifted her career center to computers and the Internet.

Collaboration with singer/songwriter/producer Seth Hartman and lyricist Shy Hart to form Immortal Dream, a project focused on a musical expression of Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat." Album completed. Not distributed.

[Relocating to San Francisco, the artist dropped her psudonym and began working under her middle name, Alyras, (pronounced "ah-LEE-rah"), and her first+last name.]

Starred in George Coates "Crazy Wisdom Sho", (one of three characters in the final presentation of George Coates Performance Works.)

Stage Manager for the private premiere and recording of the second phase of composer Clark Suprynowicz's opera "Caliban Dreams"and (librettist) Amanda Moody, (Tenor) John Duykers, (Stage Director) Melissa Weaver, (conductor) Bob Geary.

Helped develop and record a Pop/Dance album with singer/songwriter Angel Kwan Yin for Real Pop records.

Soprano Section Leader, reserve soloist and Assistant Conductor with the Transcendence Gospel Choir (TGC).

Lead the TGC and other singers in the world’s first international transgender GALA chorus in a tear jerking performance of “Bless Me” during the VIIe [7^th] Festival International GALA Choruses in Montréal, Quebec, 2004. (It was also the first time any queer-centric activity had been held at the city’s Notre Dame Basilica. Portions of these experiences were captured in the films, “The Believers” and “Why We Sing.” )

Bassist on “Oh Happy Day!” concert recording of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the TGC.

Released a Tzolkin music collection entitled “Ascension” and launched into creating and producing Russian pop (via her collaboration with multitalented Nadia Mogilev.)

Entering 2008, established herself as Artist/Label; the Art of Pop, producing music for each of the 4 Profiles; International Pop, Dance, Jazz and Inspirational. Conceived "The Archangel Diaries" (AD) as a compilation platform for the label.

2009: AD I released in Spring. Initial Alyras EP for AD II in July. "Bridges" tour conceived and in development. Alyras records chant version of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" (a la vocalise), expressing the chant during a spirit/mental journey into the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn, (Glendale, CA) during the scheduled hour of his funeral.