I started writing music on the piano while an undergraduate at Harvard University and picked up the guitar shortly after graduating.

In 2012, I self-released my first album, “A Pink Motel By The Seashore.” I played locally behind the album. It received airplay on WXRT.

In 2025, I self-released my second, double album, “No One Wants You (You’ve Slept With Too Many Men).” It is by turns dark and joyful. I spent ten years working on an album about what it is like to have been chronically sexually abused as a girl. I wrote about internalized shame, rage, disassociation, and about feeling by turns objectified and haunted. Ultimately, however, I came to the conclusion that my love life wasn’t that different rom a lot of other women’s. Let’s just say that making this album helped me come down off the cross.

I’m proud that the album, “No One Wants You (You’ve Slept With Too Many Men)” reached #10 on the MMD Top Streams Chart (college and independent radio) on April 29, 2025, and that the music video for the title song has garnered almost 200,000 views on YouTube.

My touring band includes guitarist Fareed Haque (Blue Note Records), drummer Greg Fundis (56 Hope Road, Zep2), C Mikhail, (Chicago Immigrant Orchestra) and backup singer Regina Doss Rhymes who grew up singing in Chicago’s South Side churches.

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No One Wants You (You’ve Slept With Too Many Men)

Parking Lot

Many, Many, Many Lovers

Diagonal Street

Believe Me

Whore

Sidestep Heartache

Fever

Lay Keppe

Rather

One Winged Butterfly Girl

Sex Object

You No Longer Exist

Right Thing

That Hair

When You’re Here

Gypsy

Sweetest Man

Lost and Gone

Take Me Back

Cheater

Beautiful and True

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