Kirby has been played on NTS in shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Ross Allen, featured first on 19 January 2023. Songs played include Adonis.

Kirby Lauryen Dockery, also known as Kirby Lauryen, is an American singer and songwriter and has been active since 2012. Kirby was born October 24 in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Southaven, Mississippi. She studied music at Stax Music Academy and enrolled at Berklee College of Music after high school but left in 2012 to pursue music full-time. She began a Youtube challenge where she posted videos of herself singing a new original song for 275 days. She was contacted by Joy Brown of Roc Nation on day 302 of the challenge and signed to the label. She has worked with artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Brandy, and Timbaland. Kirby co-wrote the track "FourFiveSeconds", which went through several rounds of edits as directed by Kanye West. She also wrote the song "Die with You" performed by Beyoncé and "Break Your Heart Right Back" by Ariana Grande. She released her first album, Sis in February 2020 and the follow-up EP Sis. He wasn’t the one in 2021