I started writing music on the piano while an undergraduate at Harvard University and picked up the guitar shortly after graduating in 1991. I played out in Chicago during my mid-twenties-to-mid-thirties.

A major illness sidelined me until 2012, when 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 joyful, dark, funny and defiant. I spent twelve 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, and disassociation, and about feeling by turns objectified and haunted. Ultimately, however, I ended up writing a number of love songs too. I came to the conclusion that my love and sex life hadn’t turned out that differently from a lot of other women’s. There were jerks. But there were good ones, too, who helped me heal. Let’s just say that 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.

I’m currently re-working 9 of the 11 songs on “A Pink Motel By The Seashore.” I have composed two additional songs which I will add to these nine and plan to re-release the album in 2026 under the title, “Lily.”

My touring band includes guitarist Fareed Haque (Blue Note Records), drummer Greg Fundis (56 Hope Road), C Mikhail, who also performs in several Middle-Eastern groups and backup singer Regina Doss Rhymes who grew up singing in Chicago’s South Side churches.