Kira Roessler (born June 12, 1962) is an American musician, singer, and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning dialogue editor. She is best known as the second bassist in the influential hardcore punk band Black Flag.
Roessler began studying piano when she was six but quit at age eleven. At fourteen she picked up the bass guitar and committed to learning the instrument. Her first band was called Waxx and she played her first gig at age sixteen at Whiskey A Go-Go. Other early bands were Sexsick, The Visitors, and The Monsters. She then joined with a post-Germs Pat Smear to form Twisted Roots.
Members of Black Flag heard her playing while she was sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3. This led to her being asked to join Black Flag to replace founding member Chuck Dukowski. She became Black Flag's first and only female member. Roessler was majoring in applied engineering at UCLA, and Black Flag's subsequent tours were worked around her school schedule, which was a condition for her to join the band. Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag's studio albums. She remained in the band until completing touring behind their album In My Head in the autumn of 1985, then graduated from UCLA in 1986.
After Black Flag, she formed the two-bass duo Dos with Mike Watt. Dos' most recent album was released in 2011. She wrote or co-wrote songs for what would be the Minutemen's final album, 3-Way Tie, and contributed lyrics to Watt's post-Minutemen band Firehose. She later contributed artwork to Watt's first solo album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. She appeared on the Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three tribute album in 2003 along with other musical artists, including other Black Flag veterans. In December 2018, Roessler joined with Devin Hoff to form the two bass band AwkWard and released their first album In Progress.
Roessler now works as a dialogue editor on theatrical films in Los Angeles, sometimes credited under her full name, sometimes simply as kira. She was involved in the sound editing team that won a 2016 Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road.
