Ms. Kay was born in Tokyo and began learning music at a very young age at the Yamaha Music Institute in Kanagawa Japan. A couple years later her mother placed her in a music academy to learn classical piano. She learned to play serious classical piano music throughout her childhood and into adulthood, graduating the academy and continued with professional private lessons. She has studied different genres in America and has traveled to Austria to study music history. Throughout the years she has taught young children, teens and adults. She has performed professionally for various bands, organizations and orchestras. She came to Tampa with her husband and four children in 2012 from Santa Barbara, California due to her husband’s job.