She was born in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), and gained her initial fame by participating in the talent show Starmania in 2002–3.

[2] From 2008 to 2009 she sang with another electro-rock Band, Monilla, and is featured on their 2008 album, Hello World – Chapter 1.

The daughter of an Austrian father and a Namibian mother, she attended the German Higher Private School Windhoek, where she began acting and singing.

Her mother is the actress Mara Baumgartner, who starred in the prize-winning 2015 film Katutura.

[3] After relocating to Graz, Austria, as a teenager, she worked for Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature, and passed up on the opportunity to attend university in order to further her singing career.