Ever since Kiki was a wee little girl, she had a passion for animals and music. At the age of six, she discovered her passion for music and started classical piano lessons. When she was thirteen, her father taught the first influential three chords G, C, and D. She sought out the rest of her guitar education through the internet (yes, pre-YouTube days). She also learned how to play the drums at the age of sixteen followed by a bit of undeniable bass-slapping. After graduating from the University of California, Irvine with a bachelor’s in Biological Science/Pre-Medicine, she decided to take a break from the books and become a full-time guitarist with the all Asian-American girl band, Nylon Pink, and later became the lead vocalist.

She then had experience playing on stage with Taylor Swift at the 2014 VMA’s and Usher at CBS’s Fashion Rocks Fall 2014. She was also the lead guitarist of Bret Michael’s in a commercial for Nissan. She then joined the band She Demons put together by Jerry Only’s the Misfits touring internationally and nationwide in the fall of 2015 as direct support. After music took a halt, her and former singer of Nylon Pink, Kaila Yu, decided to pivot their brand into a travel blog, generating over 100,000 views per month upon release. They later co-wrote the best-selling book “30-Day Travel Challenge: How to Make Your Travel Dreams a Reality and spoke as travel experts on multiple news networks such as KTLA, CBS, NBC, and Fox News.

After the pandemic hit and travel came to a screeching halt, she went back to her passion for music and hit the ground running on TikTok and instagram. She grew her accounts to over 2.4+ millions followers with her ridiculous guitar faces and metal covers. Since then, she’s performed on stage with acts like Bebe Rexha, Lindsay Stirling, and more. 

Kiki Wong currently plays guitar for The Smashing Pumpkins.