Her maternal uncle is jazz guitar virtuoso Tuck Andress of Tuck & Patti. As a teenager she spent summers as their roadie on tours of Asia and the United States. After graduating high school she was their tour manager in Europe.
[on her recording 'Strange Mercy'] I switched up my writing process.I just wrote very simple songs on guitar - one voice and one guitar - with a hope that the songs would be more emotionally immediate and coming from the heart. Hopefully we'll just bring on the apocalypse.