Although I didn't always know that music would become the focus of my life’s work, I've been making music as long as I can remember. My first grade school teacher gave me the nickname, "hummingbird," because I was incessantly (and inadvertently) humming and singing in class. Neither of my parents are musicians, and so it was a surprise to them when at age eight I asked for a piano. I started taking lessons then, performed in my first musical shortly after, and have been making music ever since.

My journey as a singer has not been an easy one, and in the hopes of encouraging other singers who are struggling, I've written about some of my past challenges here