Short story long, I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand with my incredible family. I gave the majority of my time to sports, dabbling in kids music lessons on the side. My family uprooted from NZ when I was fourteen, moving us to Brisbane, Australia, where I lived for another eleven years. As I walked through all of the big changes, I found myself asking God for relationship and purpose, and He gave it, very quickly. I picked up the guitar my first year in Brisbane, and unexpectedly found a love for playing and singing. I met many discouragements over my teen years, wrestling comparison, insecurity and perfectionism, but music had a firm grip on my heart. My love for creativity grew the more I realised its power to unleash freedom in the human soul. This understanding led to a dream to begin a ministry called Beth-Biri (House of The Creative One). Some friends from around the world and I began working towards launching a safe place and creative space in Brisbane under this name in 2018. 

Around that time, I looked around and recognised a dissonance between language and experience as I compared my faith walk to that of some friends around me. I desired a freedom and a peace that I had read about, but had not consistently experienced. As I sought God, He taught me about His invitation to abide, and my relationship with Him was forever changed. The knowing of His availability, tangibility and closeness came just in time, as my world was turned upside-down and landed me in a crumpled heap on the floor. My best friend passed away in a car accident on a Sunday afternoon. I received the call five hours later. I prayed. Shook. Wept. Begged. And, two months later, flew, to the U.S. to escape the intense grief I was experiencing at home.

Though I had no idea what it would look like to really go after music, it seemed a pathway had been laid out before me. My friends from One Big Family made room on their van as they toured up the West Coast, and their encouragement and belief in me as they heard my songs challenged and overwhelmed me, reminding me of the purpose to which I had been called. I returned home, uploaded Live At Tehillah, a six-track EP from a worship set earlier that year, then began dreaming and working toward an album of originals. The songs poured out, and the story was soon formed: Something Like A Secret. 

In 2020, my friends and I moved into our new home at Beth-Biri, where I experienced an overload of healing. My heart was set free from the grief that had crippled me for twelve months. I soon jumped in the studio with my friend Brett Anthony Shaw, who made my dreams come true with his production of my album. With inspiration from the Oh Hellos, the Lumineers, Hailaker and the Middle East, we pulled together a collection of indie-folk sounds and instruments that made my stories come alive.

After its release in 2021, I travelled back to the U.S. for the summer, and for a second One Big Family tour, from Texas to Colorado. I landed in San Antonio where I was picked up by our host: a tall, handsome man with long dark hair, round sunnies and a vintage tee. By the time I left the states two months later, I was making plans to wrap up life in Brisbane and return to Texas to pursue music and a life with him.

I moved across the world at the beginning of 2022, where I continued to work on my upcoming album, Tomorrow mind, and fall deeply in love. Callan and I got married in December ‘22, and have since been residing in san Antonio with our new son Silas and perfect puppy Jude, making music, sharing music, reading books and building our beautiful life.