BIOGRAPHY

Kaylene Peoples started her musical training at nine years old. She was Who's Who in Music and graduated from UCLA in ethnomusicology and composition. She then completed Master Classes in Film Scoring under the direction of Walter Scharf.

As a singer, Kaylene has a 5-octave vocal range, and was heavily influenced by Barbra Streisand, Nancy Wilson, and Al Jarreau. She is also an accomplished flautist who's influences come from Hubert Laws and Dave Valentine.

Kaylene is also a gifted, prolific composer, was heavily influenced by Chopin, Wagner, Shostakovich, and many composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her background in ethnomusicology gives her music a world sound, and that influence has colored her scores, and helped to creat a unique definitive style. Some of Kaylene's favorite scorewriters are John Williams, Ennio Moricone, and Howard Shore. Kaylene has gone on to write and conducted countless orchestral pieces, symphonies, film scores, and string arrangements.

Kaylene Peoples toured America and the Far East as a musician, she modeled professionally for years, and has appeared in films, television, and commercials. Back in 2000, Kaylene produced Christina Fasano's Spiritually Wet, which won "Best R&B Album of the Year" at the L.A. Music Awards. Kaylene wrote string arrangements for Miramax, Capitol, Warner Bros, Universal/Republic, and Elektra records. She has music credits on American Pie 2, Serendipity, and wrote arrangements on Ruby. Select songs from her first album, Rite of Passage, have been featured in a variety of independent films. As a scorewriter, Kaylene has composed and conducting musical scores for a variety of independent films including her own multi-award-winning film Redemption, which won "Best First Time Director" for the Hollywood Underground Film Festival, and "Grand Prize" at Florida's Goldie Film Awards, and Redemption screened at the New York Film and Video Festival. Kaylene produced and directed the following documentaries: Uncle Wilber and The Other Secret.  Both are still in production.