Music maker shares a taste of her talent

By Heidi Kyser

Published April 17, 2014 at 5:00 AM PDT

Kayla Quijano is one of the four stars in our Kid's Got Talent feature from the April 2014 special family issue of Desert Companion. Hear the K.O. Knudson 6th-grader play a traditional Italian tarantella on her cello in this video, shot March 2014.

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Read about Kayla and the other kids -- a golfer, painter and math whiz -- here.

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Heidi Kyser

Desert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she was promoted to senior writer and producer, working for both DC and KNPR's State of Nevada. She produced KNPR’s first podcast, the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning Native Nevada, in 2020. The following year, she returned her focus full-time to Desert Companion, becoming Deputy Editor, which meant she was next in line to take over when longtime editor Andrew Kiraly left in July 2022. In 2024, Interim CEO Favian Perez promoted Heidi to managing editor, charged with integrating the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsroom operations.

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