Kelly was born and raised in Jupiter, Florida and like the planet, she is out of this world. Kelly grew up performing on the stage, but discovered her passion for music during High School, where she took her first singing lesson and after that, never stopped. She later made her way to Lakeland, Florida where she studied vocal performance and theatre at Southeastern University. While at school, she helped start an acapella Jazz group, studied opera, joined a hiphop dance team, performed in musicals, got involved back stage, put on two recitals and wrote a thesis on how emotion and expression in a performance influences the audiences' perception of a performance. After graduating as the Most Outstanding Music Performance Major, Ms. Palusis worked at Disney and eventually moved to Japan to explore the theater scene. After spending some time teaching children English through music and dance, she moved back to Jupiter in 2021 able to speak Japanese and ready to start fresh and to combine her passions for the arts and international experiences.