Rising Stars: Meet Kyairra Johnson

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kyairra Johnson.

Hi Kyairra, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Losing my mom when I was 15 fueled a lot that I do today because she needs her own tombstone. She and my dad are the reasons I love music so much. He is Hip-Hop she was R&B plus both my grandmothers do Jazz music and oldies. My love for music started young. I have a purpose, and vision for everything I will do. I was born in Inglewood CA, raised half the time there then we moved to San Bernardino County. My mom passed away there when I was about 15 in 2009.

I moved back to the city of Inglewood with my granny Cleo Johnson and then with my dad a while later.

It’s been me and him ever since ups and downs. Music saved from me more time than I can count, I’ve been writing music since the 3rd-grade rock songs I loved rock my uncles got me hooked early lol. In Middle school I was in a rock band with some friends and in High School, I started rapping my poems to people, I’ve been writing poetry also since the 3rd grade. Then I started rapping on beats with friends after school then I met some people who put me in the studio at around 18 or 19 that’s when I took it seriously and came up with my company and everything, I wanted to do in full I’ve always had an idea but I didn’t know.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
My life is not pretty and it shows in the music and everything I do. Finding myself was one of the hardest things ever because how can learn to be a woman without your mother your father is used to all his boys and doesn’t know what to do with you so he tries his best. Music saved me on so many levels I don’t really fit in many places and people have an assumption about me as soon as they see me because I am a masculine-presenting lesbian and to them, I want to be a boy and that’s eww far from the truth my divine femininity is my power I’m just able to balance my divine masculine as well and express my balance of the two like most should, the way I dress is just comfort for me yet when you tell people not to call you a boy but you dress like one sometimes rattles their mantle baskets because everything has a title or label and I don’t live like that nor put those types of presses on myself. Being a woman in America is hard enough, now imagine being black dark skin gay masculine presenting and self-aware, and comfortable with myself, the majority of my battles with people is to get them to pay attention to me and not look past me solely because of my lifestyle choice.

They don’t look at the facts, I study my craft daily, and I come up with new ideas and more for that field, I have degrees in music production and entertainment business, I do photography and videography, I write rap records, and edit all my music and so much more I do on my own because people can’t keep up with my work ethic and they look past me because I’m not as pretty as the others n rap I’m not appealing to them all this great stuff I do doesn’t matter to a lot of people because to them I’m just a girl that wants to be a boy. I get passed up a lot because of that fact alone they can’t say it directly so they say you just don’t fit what we are looking for. I helped and worked with local big names and they don’t mention me in rooms because I’m not a normal girl they always tell me how good I’m doing but when it’s time to pay or acknowledge me for the work I did for them they don’t. This is years of stuff past and present so I do it on my own looking for a tribe that fits me and wants to teach me not assuming they know me because of others who like what I like.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I own a multimedia production company called Kyairra. that houses KyairrasMuseic (Label), KyairrasVsn (Photography/Videography), KyairrasFilm (TV MOVIE), and MuseicMag (Music Magazine) and so much more related to the entertainment field.

But right now my focus is on KyairrasMuseic and getting myself out there as an artist to continue to add walls to this foundation of Kyairra. This will is one of the biggest things coming out of LA.

Before we let you go, we’ve got to ask if you have any advice for those who are just starting out.
Just Keep Swimming – Dory.

Don’t allow others to project their fears on you. Don’t allow others to tell you how to live your life and chase your dreams. It’s okay not to be okay, it’s okay to say NO, it’s okay to set your boundaries, it’s okay to PICK YOU FIRST and be selfish, and it’s okay to stand out and not fit in. DON’T EVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU, YOU CAN’T!

Because you can. It’s a journey, not a destination and it can be the most beautiful thing you saw if you believe in yourself and keep your faith high.

Get some sleep to read and relax, that L stands for the lesson so learn and keep going, ALWAYS LEARN ALWAYS TAKE NOTES ALWAYS WRITE DOWN YOUR GOALS!

Most importantly give yourself all that love respect honesty loyalty etc that you give to others, give it to yourself. Be kind and have a heart in a world so heartless but don’t be afraid to protect yourself. YOU DONT HAVE TO BE LIKE NOBODY BUT YOU, PEOPLE ONLY DO WHAT YOU ALLOW THEM TO, Love them enough to let them go and pick you first

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/kyairrasmuseic
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prodbymuseic/
• Facebook: https://www.tiktok.com/@kyairrasmuseic
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProdbyMuseic
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHV9-VbSfHhNAZbSBv95coA
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kyairrasmuseic

Image Credits
@KyairrasVsn