PK was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, son of caramel corn vendor Walter K. In 1981 his mother became a croupier and his father, jealous of her initial earnings, separated from her, sold the family business, and moved to Thunder Bay Ontario, PK in tow. There father and son worked tirelessly constructing polygraph machines from the cramped comfort of their mobile home garage.
From a young age, he became fascinated with Ghandi, red robes, and stock car racing. At fourteen, bald and sometimes silent, Walter encouraged the teenager to join a club at school, like cage fighting or basketball. PK chose Flamenco Palmas Forever, who met on Wednesdays at 3:45pm, which placed him on the high-speed winding train that would take him all over the world; music.
Clarinets, melodeons, production, sonnets, DMT, a stage production of Bowie’s Labyrinth, and a Kris Kross tribute ensued. By his high school graduation, PK was turning down collaboration offers from Dave Grohl, Cher, Philip Glass, and James Cameron, in part because he wanted to explore the world of silviculture, but also because he wanted to focus his creative energies on independent music projects of his own, such as 2999 and The Box and mead-fueled campfire parties high up in the Canadian alpine. Peter Gzowski, his own brand of bass strings, and a sturgeon farm also helped establish his international profile.
He now lives in Calgary with his three dogs: DC, Hazel and Nasty.