Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15, 1963 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer and DJ.
Kirby was born in Youngstown, Ohio and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent time in Virginia Beach, Virginia where she attended Kempsville High School, and Washington, D.C., before finally settling in New York City in 1982, at the age of 19 to pursue a career in fashion design. In New York she attended FIT to study textile design, but dropped ou...
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Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15, 1963 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer and DJ.
Kirby was born in Youngstown, Ohio and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She spent time in Virginia Beach, Virginia where she attended Kempsville High School, and Washington, D.C., before finally settling in New York City in 1982, at the age of 19 to pursue a career in fashion design. In New York she attended FIT to study textile design, but dropped out after a short time. She supported herself as a waitress, a bartender, a coat checker, a bathroom attendant, a go-go dancer, and an art gallery receptionist; continuing to study and work at designing on her own. In this early period as a club kid she prepared a performance art window piece for the nightclub "Area" and received First Prize.
It was in New York's Washington Square Park that a mutual friend introduced her to Dmitry Brill, a Ukrainian expatriate and amateur D.J. The two started dating, and moved in together in an apartment in...
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