Kira Meriwether is the performing name of K. Meriwether Baxter, a Yale trained musicologist and lyricist whose music is currently available on Bandcamp.

Vox: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your background?
Kira:I grew up in Belfast but moved with my family who are missionaries to Saitama, Japan when I was about 12 years old. 
Vox: That explains the accent!
Kira: You mean the Japanese accent? (laughing).  I’m told my Japanese has a pretty strong accent, so I guess I missed the magic age where you pick up a new language accent.  My brother now lives in LA so I’m there quite a bit and I think I’m picking up some of that California lilt.
Vox: So how did you come to music?
Kira: I guess singing in the choir and playing violin.  Later I studied musicology at Yale.  My brothers heavily involved in the music scene in LA and so he helps me mix my music and I have a lot of friends who are multi-instrumentalists from my Yale days.
Vox: So any plans to start touring or go commercial?
Kira:  I don’t think so, the music industry is pretty tough right now, in fact most of the creative professions are really having to face this AI, what would you call it... 
Vox: Transition.
Kira: Yeah, transition.  I think this is going to move music to something we do for fun, definitely a lot more emphasis on performance.
Vox: I see that your band can’t music is freely available for performance.
Kira: Oh yeah.  I’d like people to perform my music.  I think that’s my aspiration.  A lot of it is folk music and if it could enter the corpus of folk music that would be terrific.  I think that’s the highest honor of any music, to capture our psychology over multiple generations.
Vox: Do you see that happening yet?
Kira: Oh no not not at all, not yet.  But it’s early.  I’m really talking generations.  And I think a lot of my themes have eternal attraction in fact many of my songs are reworkings of traditional themes or attempt to capture historical events of universal significance.  I picked up some interest from the station in Florida, so maybe that’s the start of something.
Vox:  It has been great  talking with you thanks for your time and I wish you the best in your next endeavor whatever that may be.
Kira: Thanks for talking with me.