In high school, she listened to a lot of folk music and indie pop, including Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers[2] as well as the Blurryface album by Twenty One Pilots.
[6] She was accepted into a vocal performance program at Leeds Conservatoire and moved to the UK with one of her bandmates as well as her then boyfriend.
[2] In December 2020, with her visa expired, she moved back to Minnesota, where she spent a year-and-half living in her aunt and uncle's basement in south Minneapolis.
[8] In August 2021, a snippet of her song "Meant to Be", a collaboration with singer-songwriter Charlie Oriain from Isle of Wight, became a viral video on TikTok.
[3] Ber's music has been described as "Olivia Rodrigo with more pop-punk tones and a little of Lana Del Rey's wicked wordplay".
[7] Ber cites influences from Marcus Mumford, John Denver, Chris Martin, Joni Mitchell, Maggie Rogers, Sigrid, Taylor Swift, Julia Michaels, and Jeremy Zucker.