Kaylene Peoples Music

Kaylene Peoples was a model and a former Miss California; she is a vocalist with a 5-octave range, a multi-instrumentalist, and a prolific composer/arranger/conductor. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Composition and Ethnomusicology, and received a Masters in Film Scoring under the direction of Academy Award-winner composer Walter Scharf . . . and she studied flute with prominent Hollywood session player Sheridan Stokes. She mentored with Academy Award-winner composers David Raksin and Henry Mancini; and has even played piano with Oscar winner, film composer Jerry Goldsmith. Kaylene has written and conducted countless string arrangements for record labels (Capitol Records, Polygram, Warner Bros., EMI, Elektra Records, and Universal/Republic). She has written neoclassical symphonies and composed and conducted a ten-Act ballet titled Apocalitica. Her orchestration skills can be heard on movie sound tracks, including American Pie 2, Serendipity, Ruby, and her own multi-award-winning feature film she wrote, directed, and scored titled Redemptionwhere she won Best First Time Director (HUFFY), Best Picture (Goldie Film Awards), and A Grand Jury Award (Florida Film Festival). She is also an award-winning L.A. Music Awards producer for Best R&B Album of the Year and Best New Artist Christina Fasano’s Spiritually Wet.