Reana Kirzten
About Reana
Reana Kirzten Villanueva is a U.S.-based music technologist, artist, and creative director working at the intersection of electronic production, multimedia, and performance. As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, she earned her Bachelor’s in Electronic Production & Sound Design with minors in Visual Media and Electronic Performance on the World Tour Scholarship. She performed at venues such as the Red Room at 939 and Agganis Arena, and was recognized as a creative visionary with the Thrive Scholarship, 2024 Best of Berklee Club Leader of the Year Award, and the selection of her debut single, Breakthrough, for Berklee’s EPD Compilation Album out of 3,000 submissions.
Post-graduation, Reana worked as an Audio Post-Producer and Voiceover Artist for leading tech firms, xAI and Mercor. She is part of the GRAMMY U program of The Recording Academy and a member of the Association of Music Producers (AMP). Her visual and performance work garnered thousands of views online, earning recognition from companies such as Novation and Avid. She also collaborated with Grammy-nominated artists and creative directors including dolltr!ck and Nona Hendryx, contributing as an Audio Editor to Hendryx’s Cyboracle 2026 Interactive Crown Experience within Dream Machine XR. As an independent artist under KIRZTEN, she produces and performs electronic music centered on themes of self-empowerment and optimism, with features in blogs such as Section 36 Music and top-ranked U.K.-based Right Chord Music Indie Collective. Beyond her artistry, she is the founder of KIRZTEN Productions, a music technology platform providing accessible resources for global creators, and the director of the multimedia project CHROMA Connect, leading a 50+ member team advocating for versatility across the arts. Reana continues to collaborate with international production teams while developing multiple projects, including her upcoming debut EP, Rejuvenate.
Reana's Story
Since childhood, Reana had formal training and performance experience in the pop, ballad, and musical theatre vocal styles, along with classical piano. She participated in the Certificate of Merit program of the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC), where she was taught by Ophelia Raboca, Founder of the San Jose Academy of Music (SJAM), and received annual certificates for the study of piano proficiency. Reana earned the Branch Honors and New Materials Awards as a result of her soaring scores on MTAC’s Certificate of Merit evaluation. Reana soon developed a strong fondness for electronic music in the Spring of 2016, when she discovered the song, Smoke by Au5 and Fractal, during a road trip from Las Vegas. Her love for the track's unconventional sonic modulations sparked her passion for production, and she became inspired to create her own music starting with mobile DAWs at the age of 17.
After graduating high school, Reana broadened her artistic skillset upon the arrival of the 2020 Pandemic. At the time, she directed three projects : Luminescence, a virtual electronic pop-rock band; Project Protection Alliance, a musical-action stop-motion project, and Melodious Epiphany, an animated voice-acted multimedia franchise with original soundtracks and special video episodes. Through these, she obtained additional skills in scriptwriting, digital design, video editing, and voice acting. On the side, she provided voiceover work for the Garupa Pico English Fandub, a project behind the fan-made english adaptation of Bushiroad's Chibi Series, Garupa Pico.
At Berklee, she advanced her production skills in industry-standard DAWs and immersed herself into the experimental realm of electronic performance. Her growing knowledge led her to produce Breakthrough, a cinematic electro-fusion song with empowering themes of passion and authenticity. This song alludes to a restrictive period in Reana's life, with a profound message encouraging others to fulfill their desires. Reana writes powerful call-to-action pieces that pull others out of the shadows.