Lingua Ignota (musician)  Kristin Hayter (born 1986) is an American classically trained multi-instrumentalist originally from Southern California and currently residing in Rhode Island. In 2017, she self-released two albums—"Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him" and "All Bitches Die"—under the moniker Lingua Ignota (Latin for "unknown language"). Through word-of-mouth, Hayter's music caught the attention of Profound Lore Records, who re-issued "All Bitches Die" and released her third studio album "Caligula" in 2019. She draws on her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence for musical and lyrical inspiration, and describes her music as "survivor anthems". Hayter was born in Del Mar, California in 1986. She felt like she didn't fit in in Southern California and was often bullied. About her hometown, she said: "I think of [Del Mar] as a sort of hell in the way that I was so different than everyone else when I was growing up and couldn't situate myself, couldn't find myself there at all." Hayter was raised Catholic and studied in parochial school until the sixth grade, when she entered the public school system. A teacher noticed her voice's natural vibrato when she was eight years old, which lead to her becoming a church cantor, singing every week at her local church and beginning classical voice training lessons. Despite a religious upbringing, she considered herself to be an atheist for several years starting as a teenager. However in 2019, Hayter became interested in Roman Catholicism (iconography). Hayter studied interdisciplinary creative arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Literary Art from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 2016. She is also classically trained in piano and voice. Her undergraduate thesis, titled "Architect and Vapor," deconstructed Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", and centered its poetry component around anorexia, a disorder Hayter herself endured for over a decade. For her MFA thesis, titled "Burn Everything Trust No One Kill Yourself", she created a 10,000-page manuscript (a page count selected because it was approximately Hayter's weight in paper) linking real-world examples of misogyny in music with her own personal life using a Markov chain. In her own words, it was composed of "lyrics, message board posts, and liner notes from subgenres of extreme music that mythologize misogyny, […] [and] court papers, audio recordings, and police filings from my own experiences of violence."