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Kristen May grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs, as did the rest of her bandmates. Her entire family was musical; her mother was a singer who loved Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Jim Croce. “I listened to those artists, as well as my older brother’s rock records,” she says. "He loved Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, and Nirvana, so that rubbed off on me. Otherwise maybe I’d have holed up in my room and become a folk artist!”