She was one of the original members of Postmodern Jukebox[2] alongside Haley Reinhart, Casey Abrams, Robyn Adele Anderson, and Morgan James, and the group's first female emcee.

[1] She attended an all-girls Catholic convent school in her teenage years before graduating early and moving to London to pursue a career in performance.

She studied Shakespeare and acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and was a member of Playhouse West, a repertory theater directed by Jeff Goldblum.

[10] She eventually graduated from Harvard University years later and has a masters degree from the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute in Italy.

Savalas began her music career in Los Angeles as a singer/songwriter playing venues on the Sunset Strip,[13] such as the Whisky a Go Go and Hard Rock Cafe.

[19] Savalas began incorporating her own music into live shows, drawing influences from the Weimar Republic era of German Cabaret and the Moulin Rouge.