Going back to the beginning, when I was in third grade, my mom found the perfect piano teacher for my sister and I and we started piano lessons. That was the official beginning of it all. Immediately after was voice lessons, then guitar, then I started performing in Musical Theatre and seeking out every opportunity to be onstage that I could find.

Around 2012, I started playing in rock bands with Rock Academy Downers Grove. After a few different bands, I eventually became lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Jo's Corner in 2016. In August 2018, we released our debut record, CATALYST, which featured eight of our original songs and was produced mostly by us, with help from Ryan Groff, who gets his own paragraph in a second. In 2019, I released my debut single as a solo artist, "You Don't Get To Decide", which was followed in 2020 by my Debut EP, "About Time". 

I have worked closely with Ryan Groff since 2016, and I feel very grateful to call him both friend and mentor. Ryan has played in bands such as Elsinore and Modern Drugs, and is the owner of Perennial Sound Studio. He has produced much of my released music, including - but not limited to  - singles “Gonna Tell Ur Mom” (2023), “Grenade” (2022), and "Live Wire" (2022).

During my time in the Lyric Theatre program at the University of Illinois, I was lucky to study voice under Professors Dawn Harris and Sarah Wigley, with guidance from Dr. Julie Gunn and Professors Nathan Gunn and Michael Tilley. I also got the chance to perform in many Lyric Theatre productions including Fun Home (2021), Songs For A New World (2019), and The Marvelous Wonderettes (2022).

While still in college, I had the incredible opportunity and privilege to work with Nashville musicians Candi Carpenter and Alden Witt on artist development and new music, which ended up totally changing the trajectory of my life. As a result of my time with these amazing people, I up and moved to Nashville myself, and I have been writing constantly and plan to have more music out in the coming year.