Conversation with Kyshona Armstrong at TakeRoot Festival 2024, NL.

After college, Kyshona spent 17 years as a music therapist, focusing on veterans, incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, and the youth. Kyshona began writing her songs with patients under her care. As a therapist, she met two black men—one a poet, the other studying recreational therapy—who had breakdowns and were in the mental hospital. She recounts learning how to write music through their therapy sessions. In 2014, she moved to Nashville to pursue a career as an independent artist. The album 'Legacy' (2024) was well received by the media.