About Me

Persephone Zymos was brought up to go into the STEM field by her doctor mom and scientist dad, so everyone was shocked when she decided to pursue music as a career. She worked so far ahead in math, she took Calculus 1 her freshman year of high school. She always knew when she was younger she would have a job that would help others, an engineer, an oncologist, or a plastic surgeon. Now she knows her music can help others and make an impact.

Persephone's music path began when she was in 2nd grade, with featured roles in the musical The Wizard of Oz as a munchkin, lullaby league, and jitterbug. The adults in the lead roles proved to be such amazing role models, Persephone knew she had to continue singing to be just like them. After that one musical, she began taking private singing lessons and continues to this day. Working hard with the little opportunities we had in small town Wisconsin, she participated in children's community theater, playing Tinker Bell in Peter Pan Jr, Counterpoint in Musicville, and the Grunch in The Grunch. Her desire to pursue music as a career took off after her role as Annie in Annie the musical. Again working with children and adults with this musical, learning from the adults and helping teach the kids, there was nothing that made her happier. Persephone participated in every workshop and musical camp she could find, traveling to Milwaukee as well as New York to attend multiple week camps at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), a private conservatory for the performing arts.

Once she began high school, she participated in the musical Songs for a New World with three solo songs and multiple featured parts throughout the show. Moving to a bigger city during COVID not only gave Persephone so many opportunities in the music world but it also introduced her to others that share the same passion as her. She began taking piano lessons and dancing lessons (ballet, tap, hip hop, musical theater), and performed 9 to 5 the musical as Roz in 2022, Sponge Bob in the musical Sponge bob in 2023, and Roxie in the musical Chicago in 2024. She participated in the WSMA State Solo & Ensemble Festival from 7th-12th grade, every year singing two or more class A pieces and received two recognition of outstanding performers her junior year. She also performed at weddings. Her senior year of high school was spent being a full time college student at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She took music classes such as Music Theory l/ll, Aural skills l/ll, Choir, Intro into Music Business, Intro into Music Composition, Career Skills for the Music and Arts Industries, etc.

Apart from music, she has played soccer since she was four years old and continued throughout high school. She joined the debate team to help her acting skills under pressure, and completed volunteer work for years. Her favorite volunteering 'job' was teaching Afghan immigrant children English, helping with homework and adjusting to American life. Seeing their progress and how much she personally made an impact was worth all the time at the library sounding every word out when reading together. Besides school, extra curricular activities, and volunteering, she worked on a farm for old and disabled animals for a few years. She fed, watered, cleaned, and cuddled with the animals any free time she had. Seeing the impact these lively animals had on disabled children made every early morning or late night worth it on the farm.