Career
Born in Vancouver, she started taking violin lessons at the age of three, and trained classically at the Vancouver Academy of Music from ages 3 to 17. At the age of 23 started playing in a band at the Dubh Linn Gate Public. In 2002 she moved back to Vancouver and recorded her first album Conflation.
In 2006 she co-founded the group Delhi 2 Dublin, but left in late 2010 to continue pursuing her solo career.
The "Kytami" stage name blends her first and middle names. She is of mixed Japanese, Filipino, and English descent.