Kristen McNeilly is a 17-year-old student and musician from Brampton, Ontario. She now lives in BC. She wrote her first song when she was 7, and started playing guitar when she was 11. She recorded her first EP with 3 songs in 2006, and her second, with 8 songs, in 2007. She has since worked on a song with singer/songwriter Amanda Bentley, and is currently working on a brand new full-length album, due this summer, 2009. In the fall of 2008, she won 2nd place in the 18-and-under category in Salmon Arm BC's Shuswap Idol competition.