Bio

I grew up in the Wisconsin small town musical theater, local/school choirs, and vocal jazz traditions.  I messed around with the french horn, trombone, and baritone in high school band.  I performed in several ensembles in college (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire “Wisconsin’s Singing University” including their top choir, the a cappella group “Impromptu” (we made it to the Midwestern Regional Quarterfinals (remember the movie Perfect Pitch? ok, not that cool) and recorded an album.

In 2004, I graduated college with a degree in Spanish Education.  I had studied abroad at the University of Oviedo in Spain and after college moved back.  Two years later out of loneliness and missing music, I signed up for guitar lessons and started secretly putting my poetry to chords and making up melodies.  In 2006, I started performing professionally with a couple different pop/rock cover and jazz duos (piano and guitar) in local bars and cafés in 2006.  In 2010, a friend and I formed a band, Memphis Belle.

We recorded an EP in 2014, played regionally mainly, though made it to the Spanish national semi-finals in Madrid of Hard Rock Café’s annual new band competition and played at the Cavern in Liverpool.  In 2016, it was time to let go and go solo.  In 2017, Magdalene Blue was born and we recorded a full-length album.  (A little secret…it was initially intended to be an acoustic demo but turned out pretty decent, so I thought, why not?) 

In October, I was invited to Paris to play in a Female Singer-songwriter Concert Series so I booked a mini-tour with two other dates and turned it into an album release mini-tour.  Over the holidays,  I booked a show in one of Madrid’s most famous jazz clubs CLAMORES and did it all again but with a jazz pianist.  Then in May I took a big leap and accepted an invitation to go to and perform in a Showcase at the Objective Sessions in Nashville.  

I have studied voice on and off my whole life but as an adult, I finally, consistently, studied classical voice with a voice teacher in Oviedo, Elena Perez-Herrero and it changed my life.  I was algo diagnosed with ADHD which made a lot of things make sense.