About Lyric

Lyric is a singer-songwriter, multi-intrumentalist, Reiki master, yogi, herbalist, dancer, music teacher, artist and chef. She is currently living on a 150 acre organic farm and working for a farm education non-profit. She is the music teacher of the program and continues to play at events and teach piano lessons in the area.

Lyric (she/her) is her god-given, legal name, and Raven is the translation from Danish of her mother’s maiden name. Born a cancer sun, Leo moon, Sagittarius rising.

Lyric music ranges from sweet folky mantra songs to gritty rock and roll journal entries. She is a multi instrumentalist playing guitar, ukulele, banjo, flute, percussion and didgeridoo.

Born in raised in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Lyric Raven began singing with vibrato when she was only 2 years old. Her father Woody Wolfe is a musician, inventor, and guitar cabinet builder. She was surrounded by musicians and jams sessions early in life, with Joni Mitchell songs as her first lullabies.

Lyric knew she wanted to be a musician and performer. Her song writing began at the age of 10, when she started to learn to play the flute. Her first band was in fourth grade called “LA.K” with her best friend Ariana who has since passed. Her mother, Vicki Rafn encouraged her talents and kept her active in classes and activities from a very young age. She was placed in a public arts elementary school where her interests could be nurtured. She participated in world music ensemble, worked with the Minnesota Opera, and was in plays and theatre pieces performed at Orchestra hall and other large venues for audiences of all kind. She also participated in jazz, tap, and ballet dance programs from the age of 7 until she graduated high school. You can still find her dancing at ecstatic dance whenever she gets a chance.

Lyric started to learn the guitar from her father at age 14. In high school she was part of a touring theatre troupe themed around race and social justice issues. She sang with her father’s cover band songs such as “White Room” by Cream, and also performed in an all women’s jam led by her music teacher, Rebekka Fischer.

Lyric studied Environmental Eduction and Communication in college, minored in social justice, and took as many music classes as she possibly could. She often wrote songs and performed for assignments and continued to study theatre and movement.

After interning for a non-profit that worked to reduce military spending in the state she began to write songs about social justice. Her first anti-war song “No More” was later performed at a Black Lives Matter protest to over a thousand people in the summer of 2020 shortly after the murder of George Floyd.

In 2011 she studied human rights and globalization in Northeast Thailand, where she sang with local musicians and formed many bonds, even performing one pop song in Thai.

She formed her first official band with her musician and trumpeter cousin called “3 Sisters” in her last semester of college. A few months after she graduated from the University of Minnesota, she left her home state, trading the cold winters in for the temperate seasons of California. She had been visiting multiple times a year for many years, and wanted to be closer to her paternal grandmother, artist and feminist Deborah LeSueur, daughter of author Meridel LeSueur.

Since moving to California Lyric has played at venues, events and festivals throughout the Bay Area, Santa Cruz County and throughout the state.

In 2015, she traveled to Italy to teach a theatre arts english summer camp, where she taught and sang songs with hundreds of Italian children, jamming with musicians in Sicily and throughout Italy.

When she returned she started teaching at a music school in San Francisco called “Bird School of Music”, where she first began teaching children’s music classes and private music lessons to kids.

In 2017 during a stint in Minneapolis she formed a bluegrass band with guitarist and mandolin player Jake Iwen and banjo player Zach Tauer called “Lyric Raven and the Whooping Cranes”. LRWC performed multiple years in a row at the regional Minnesota Burning Man festival and other local venues.

In the summer of 2019 Lyric founded a music and movement class in downtown Santa Cruz at a community yoga center. The class thrived until the shutdowns began in the spring of 2020.

In the fall of 2019 Lyric had joined a rock band, later to be known as “Saffron Sunrise”. The band only played one show at the historic Crepe Place in Santa Cruz before the pandemic hit and most of the members disbanded. Since then Lyric has been playing regularly with her drummer, Orlando Gonzalez.

They are currently in the process of releasing their first EP, consisting of old and new songs Lyric has written over the last 6 years. The EP is being produced by Andy Fairley, with guest apearences by Nathan Nunes on the bass.

She plans to begin working on her full length album later this year, with another album waiting in the wings.

She hopes that by sharing wisdom learned through tough experiences, her spiritual studies, and raw vulnerabilities from her joys and heart breaks, she will be able to inspire and lift others up, so no one feels alone or unworthy.

She enjoys jamming, ocean dips, yoga, forest bathing, cooking delicious and healthy foods, making herbal teas, animals of all kind, astrology and philosophy, tarot and witchcraft, as well as shaking her booty.

Spreading love, peace and heart-opening vibrations through musical healing.