BIOGRAPHY
Krispy DeRato (Kristina Dejuri) is a 30-year-old composer, songwriter, and producer from New York. Her earliest credits include recognition as a composer and panelist at the All-Eastern (2012) and All-State (2014) Conferences, for "There Were Four" (2012); recipient of the 2017 ETHOS New Music Society's Young Composer's Award, for "The Noctambulist" (2017); where in 2018 she also earned her Bachelor's in Music Composition at The State University of New York at Fredonia.
Krispy began releasing original indie music under her alias with the debut single "Metamorphosis of the Mind" (March 2021). Originally adopting the persona of "the friendly siren", @krispyderato on TikTok grew to an audience of over 460,000 followers at its peak where her iconic siren song "Anthemoessa" (July 2021) skyrocketed to over 100,000 organic plays within the first year. Krispy self-directed and self-produced her debut EP and music video series, "KRISPY Disc One" (2022), and has been a featured artist at the Springboard Music Festival/Conferences in Houston 2023 & 2024, and Memphis 2024. She is an advocate for mental health awareness, having made appearances for The Arts and Healing Resiliency Center's Online Seminar/Workshop Series in 2021 and 2024.
Since 2025, Krispy DeRato has been working freelance in film and video game scoring, composing for an international iGaming catalogue with Castellum Marketing. In 2026, she joined the team at Trucks Music Publishing, specializing in trailer music with her original tracks, "Cryptids" and "Reconiliation" (2026). Additional scoring credits include "Lucidity", a Krispy DeRato x Endel collaboration (2022), and Loving Reaper: Origins", (2027), an original short film from the works of Jenny Jinya.