Kendra Clutter is a sophomore at Page High School. She is very active with school activities and equally busy outside of school with a multitude of hobbies that interest her.

She’s in Upward Bound, the Tech Club and the Anime Club, and the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA). “We have some problems with that, so I like to support my friends and everyone,” she said.

She also plays percussion in both the marching band and the regular band, and she sings in the high school choir. 

Her passions are music and history, and she’s already looking far ahead to ways she can apply her passions in hopes of making a difference. After she graduates from high school, she plans to major in music education and minor in history. Right now, Clutter is planning on returning to Page to become a music or history teacher.

“So I can make a difference in some kids’ lives, whether it be in music or history,” she said.

For Clutter, music is her lifeblood. The thing that wakes her up and gives her life some added RPMs.

“I love music,” she said. “I am always listening to music. I also love kids and teaching kids how to play music or sing, and I also love history a lot. It is my favorite subject, and I think that it is very important.”

In addition to playing percussion in the band and singing in the choir, she also plays the piano, the guitar, the bass and some clarinet and trumpet. And recently she’s been performing songs at Page’s open mic night, held every two months or so at LP Espresso. 

At last month’s open mic, she sang “Jolene” by Dolly Parton, and the crowd loved it.

“I loved doing it,” she said. “I don’t really get nervous anymore. I feel happy and I feel like I can just be free and be who I want to be when I perform.”

Lately, Clutter has taken her passion for music to a new level by writing some of her own music.

“I kinda do a mix of everything and sometimes combine genres,” she said.

Outside of music and history, Kendra’s hobbies include crocheting riding her longboard, riding dirt bikes and quads, going for hikes and walks, and reading.

“I don’t have a favorite author because I feel like all of them bring different aspects,” she said. 

She started reading because she didn’t like playing with toys too much and her dad had a lot of books.

“So I started reading and it turned into a hobby, and I have so many books at home it’s crazy,” she said. “The first book I read was the Harry Potter books, and I loved how I could see the whole story in my mind. It just really made me happy.”

Kendra is the daughter of Michelle Hockley and Troy Clutter.