Christine’s first loves were figure skating and music. She loved exploring her mom’s cd collection, discovering the sounds of Madonna, Celine Dion, and the Beatles, among so many others. She loved listening to the radio, discovering all kinds of new music from Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories to Sheryl Crow to Alanis Morrisette. Music ignited her soul. She loved to crank it up and sing and dance, pretending she was either on the ice or in a music video. Her reflection in the window, her audience.

A natural-born dreamer, her spirit was called to create. She fell in love with writing. Along with writing stories, she analyzed cd inserts, memorizing the lyrics of all her favorite songs, not yet knowing someday she’d be writing her own… Music was a release from the trials of growing up, and home to her heart from as far back as she can remember.

As a teenager, she got her first guitar and taught herself how to play. She was writing songs in her journal, dreaming of becoming a rock star – but the shadow of significant unhealed trauma throughout her young life, and a lack of support, made it difficult to find her voice. Feeling lost and broken, she fell into a long, hard battle with addiction.

During her college years, she met the love of her life during a karaoke night in Duluth, Minnesota. They immediately took notice of each other and realized how much they had in common. He, a fellow creative soul, and music producer, and her, a free spirit who asked “Where have you been all my life!?” It was something special. They got married and moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue their dreams.

It wasn’t always an easy journey, and a hard path of recovery followed, but together they walked through the fire to the other side. Sobriety gave them the stability and opportunity to create the better life they dreamed of, and a beautiful baby boy. Their son was a gift of God’s grace. And their greatest teacher.

Throughout her motherhood, she’s had to face her complicated past, but the journey of healing and letting go has proven to be worth it. Breaking the cycle led her back to her music, back to believing in her gifts, and believing that it’s never too late to be who you might’ve been.

Music is therapy. Music is freedom. Music is healing. Music is love. Music is home. She hopes her music can bring healing to other lost and hurting souls in this fallen world, like all the musicians before her…

Currently residing in East Tennessee, she’s learning and growing as a mother and songwriter. For maybe the first time in her life she’s looking forward, not backward.