Kerry Leimer (credited on releases as K. Leimer) is a musician and composer music born in Winnipeg, Canada, and raised in the United States. Heavily influenced by the ambient and minimalist works of Brian Eno, German kosmische bands such as Cluster and Faust, and the surrealist and Dada movements, Leimer and his wife Dorothy Cross founded the Palace of Lights label in Seattle, Washington, in 1979 as an outlet for his own recordings and for the works of other artists based in the Pacific Northwest (like Marc Barreca).