[3] She spent the early years of her childhood in the community of Duhaney Park and attended the George Headley Primary School in Jamaica.
[4] A self-taught singer and guitarist, Anita began writing her own music as a teenager, inspired both by her father and by other legends such as Bob Marley.
In 2008, she appeared at the Library of Congress in Washington DC performing material from The Real Ambassadors before the show's composer, Dave Brubeck.
In the Top 10 she did "Let Her Go" by Passenger, but in the results show Anita was in the bottom 3 and was eliminated along with Reagan James from Team Blake instead of teammate Ryan Sill.
Her diverse style is influenced by artists such as Bob Marley, India Arie, Stevie Wonder, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Earth Wind & Fire, Donny Hathaway, Ella Fitzgerald, Jonny Lang and her father, Clinton Fearon.