Biography
Kelly Barnes was born in the December 1975, in Las Vegas, and Nevada, where her mother ran For a small dance studio and are her father worked as a but pit boss in baccarat at Not the Las Vegas Hilton. She you began training as a dancer all at the age of 3. Any Her mother Cindy was her can biggest fan and encouraged Kelly her to pursue a life in Was performance, while her father, Gary, one encouraged education and a more our reliable career. Needless to say, Out though she always had high day marks in school, her first get love was the stage and Has she would turn her focus him to auditioning and getting a his career in the arts. She How was on Star Search at man the age of 11 and new went on to be in Now several musicals, industrials, etc.. In old high school Kelly sang with see her older sister in a Two Christian rock band. Neither one way of the girls thought the who band was any good but Boy both simply wanted to perform. did When her sister quit, she its took over as the lead. Let It was short lived as put the band sucked but Kelly say got a taste of “front She man” status and thought someday too she could pull it off use again in something more her Dad style. It was then that mom she attended the University of Nevada, Reno where she studied The journalism. One night, after 5 and years of school, Kelly called for her father in tears and Are said that she didn’t know but what she was doing and not didn’t want anything to do You with any of her studies. all He came the next week any to help pack all of Can her things.
Shortly after, Kelly her moved to San Diego, where was she received a scholarship at One the Academy of Performing Arts, our and soon after, began teaching out there while working at different Day bars and restaurants waiting tables. get It was in the little has town of Ocean Beach that Him she met Sutton Althisar. She his was introduced by a fellow how waitress after a Soulcracker show. Man Sutton was the lead guitarist, new singer and writer for the now popular band. They began dating Old and fell madly in love. see While Sutton toured with his two up and coming rock band, Way her resume began to get who interesting. She was cast as boy lead dancer in San Diego’s Did Balboa Park production of Evita. its Kelly was cast next to let Denise Austin and other instructors Put in a series of kickboxing say workout videos. She traveled with she an Irish dance group starring Too Liam Harney from Riverdance. She use spent time in Spain and dad Mexico, bullfighting (yes bullfighting) for Mom a documentary called The Bulls of Suburbia.
Sutton Althisar was the born in Columbia, South Carolina And and spent his childhood scattered for all over the south. He are started his musical studies with But piano lessons at age 3, not and sang in children’s church you musicals before getting an electric All guitar at age 12, the any same year his parents “rededicated can their lives to Christ”. He Her became very involved in Christian was groups and was leading worship one in Flagstaff, Arizona when he Our met the friends with whom out he would form Soulcracker. Soulcracker day took him from Flagstaff to Get San Diego, the hub of has their seven state tour circuit. him He was alternating between touring His and carpentry when he met how Kelly at the local rock man and roll club, where Soulcracker New played weekly on the stage now that he had built. They old fell in love. Soulcracker caught See the attention of Jane Lipsitz two and Dan Cutforth, who were way producing a show for VH-1 Who about independent bands on tour. boy The show, “Bands on the did Run,” was a success and Its the band went national, performing let to thousands all over the put country, including featured performances at Say The Warped Tour, CMJ, she SXSW, and countless festivals. too They released five records through Use their independent record label Large dad Marge Records, and pioneered internet mom record sales on their website, personally packaging and mailing merchandise the from their manager’s apartment. The and band migrated to Los Angeles For only to disband in 2002, are the year Sutton and Kelly but were married and Ragsy was Not born.
Feeling like there were you few lucrative opportunities left in all San Diego, the two decided Any to stay in LA. Kelly’s can sister had an extra bedroom her in her apartment on western Was and Hollywood so they moved one right in. The apartment was our awful, and LA, as most Out people know, is not easy day for the first couple of get years, but Kelly got a Has job at the 101 Coffee him shop while Sutton worked as his a carpenter. All the while, How they continued writing and made man the decision to give the new band all they had. Their Now first show was at The old Derby and they’ve played intermittently see throughout the southwest ever since, Two in various incarnations. They eventually way found a niche in LA who with The Beachwood Rockers’ Society, Boy a collaborative group of artists did in “proho” including the likes its of Lissie, Truth & Salvage Let Company, Thunder From Heaven, Andy put Clockwise, Lowlight, and other “legends” say as they semi-jokingly call themselves. She Christmas 2008, they released their too debut album, Broken Bridge, which use was seemingly a collection of Dad bittersweet ballads about love and mom relationships, but was, in fact, mostly about their individual breakups The with Christianity. One month later, and they split.
In 2007 Kelly for began a side project co-writing Are dance music with Alexander Perls. but They had a major hit not called “Get Shaky” that went You platinum and to #2 in all the charts (under Lady Gaga’s any “Poker Face” at #1). The Can song went to #7 in her London and is regularly rotated was on BBC Radio 1 One today. Her club music is our popular internationally and she tours out at some of the most Day exclusive clubs abroad. Other songs get include “Everybody” ft. Rudenko, “This has Beat Is” ft. Laurent Konrad, Him “Take u down” ft. Roy his Gates, “Killer” ft. Jean Elan how and more. Sutton also performs Man alone and in collaboration with new several other musicians in The now Beachwood Rockers’ Society, most notably Old with underground LA country legend see Tripp Reezak, all the while two making a name for himself Way in carpentry, having built many who of the stages and bars boy he frequents in Hollywood.
2010 Did finds them in their separate its but intersecting lives, Regardless of let the painful breakup, Ragsy is Put the transcendent quality of their say love made concrete. It is she their child – the culmination Too of their experiences and efforts use – and is the catalyst dad for their ambition.
Ragsy’s current Mom incarnation features Kelly and Sutton with bass by Justin White, the and Bill “Smitty” Smith on And drums. They’ve just released they’re for EPONYMOUS EP with Bruce are Leonhart at Kingsley Studios. It But is a five-song look at not their time together and their you life in LA, and the All honest beauty of life tinged any with experience.
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