Killian Brayen Lyrik was born in Suffolk, England, 1991 to a Native American father and a British mother, with a Jamaican, Irish, and Dutch heritage. 

Playing the lead in school plays from a young age inspired Lyrik to perform, as did his adoration for the movies of old Hollywood such as On the Town, High Society, and Meet Me in St. Louis. At 9 years old, he joined a theatre company and took to the stage. Summer vacation would be spent drawing, writing poetry, and drafting short stories with a particular interest in the written works of Lloyd Alexander, William Shakespeare, and C.S. Lewis, while inspired by the visual works of Walt Disney and George Lucas. Lyrik won a National Poetry Day competition at the age of 10 and would take commissions from classmates at school to draw their favourite cartoon characters. A turbulent childhood saw Lyrik move across 7 foster homes and 2 children's homes, at which time, music and art provided much-needed sustenance. Following high school, he studied music, photography, IT, and literature in college.

At 18, a friend encouraged him to audition for an upcoming musical television series called ‘Don’t Stop Believing.’ He successfully passed each stage and was selected to star alongside a group of other performers for the duration of the series, being his first professional audition and entertainment credit. The group performed internationally and domestically outside of the live series, most notably invited by the Walt Disney Company to headline at Disneyland Paris in the summer of 2010.

Lyrik thereafter worked as a backing vocalist on 'The X Factor' and for British artists such as Take That, One Direction, and JLS. At the same time, he worked as a TV extra and supported British tennis player Andy Murray in a 2012 Olympics campaign. Lyrik was approached by management for then-Triple J, who would later become Union J, before their own appearance on The X Factor, but opted to travel the globe with a promising career at sea for the world's largest cruise line. Aside from this, Lyrik refrained from pursuing a recording career in music due to a number of medical conditions.

Years later, he would return clerically to the world of music as a personal assistant, working with many more artists such as Rihanna, Sam Smith, and the late Avicii. Between career changes, Lyrik studied Film and English at university, where his passion for writing returned with abundance. In London, England, he spent several years as a C-level executive assistant for leading entertainment brands, ultimately deciding to forge a new path and exercise his own creativity. In 2021, Lyrik studied 3D animation and has since been writing a high fantasy pentalogy, reconnecting to his passion for literature.