Classically trained, she is known for mixing acoustic piano and contemporary electronics, and features her lyrics and vocals over rock, jazz, tribal, and world rhythms.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University with a focus on Culture and Politics in International Affairs,[1] and, later, a certificate in Electronic Music Production from the SAE Institute of Technology in New York City.
[4] The next year, Clarke played a Daughter of Ocean in a Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of Aeschylus's Prometheus, directed by the theater's founding artistic director Joy Zinoman.
She moved to New York City in 2004, playing extensively on the downtown music circuit in places like M Shanghai Den, the Slipper Room, Piano's and C-Note.
In February 2009, she started the first of several on-stage collaborations with Dave Greene, drummer for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Joe Walsh, and Steve Ferrone at House of Blues Sunset Strip.
[12] After her impromptu set, she was subsequently appointed social media ambassador for the penultimate Lilith show for her home town of Washington, D.C., where she interviewed MacLachlan, the Indigo Girls, Butterfly Boucher, Courtyard Hounds, Lissie, and others backstage at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
She played at the Burning Man Decompression festival at LA State Historical Park in October,[11] and, later in the month, shared the stage with members of alt-rock bands The 88, The Crazy Squeeze, Foo Fighters and Blind Melon and DJs Lance Rock and Lina Lecaro at the Rockin' Great Pumpkin Fest at Micheltorena Elementary.
[16] She headlined at the feminist Cross Pollinate event opening for Starhawk, then did the same at the Reclaiming LA Annual Spiral Dance at Club Fais Do Do, first of subsequent gigs from 2013 to 2015.
As part of the "Yours Not Ours" coalition that went against the incumbent "Empower Silver Lake," she told the Los Feliz Ledger, "We’re entering kind of a new phase of the community being able to unite more together around some common goals.
[26] She spoke, played drums, and shared original music her my keyboard on the steps of City Hall at the March for Truth in L.A.,[27][non-primary source needed] among other protests.
She also collaborates with other artists and nonprofit organizations through her Gaia Grove project,[28] combining healing arts, music, and environmental activism in creative, collective work.