Kai Altair is an American singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Altair attended the

Manhattan School of Music The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...

and the Brooklyn Conservatory, and her

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is influenced by dance culture, myth, storytelling, and

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s. Altair's professional

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began with the founding of the

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band The Switch in 2004. She started a solo career in 2009, which began with the release of the EP Star of the Sea on October 31. Her first full-length album, "Dreamwalker", was released in June 2015. Altair appeared in a Flambeaux Fire production of "The Calling" between 2010 and 2013; the show was a fire musical set in Brooklyn, starring Altair as a young

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on a journey through the

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. Altair is the founder of the annual Mermaid Lagoon Ocean Benefit event, first held as a reaction to the

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in the Gulf of Mexico in July 2010.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Altair, Kai 1984 births American women singer-songwriters Living people Musicians from Brooklyn Singers from New York City 21st-century American women singers 21st-century American singers Singer-songwriters from New York (state)