In her childhood and youth, she received eleven years of classical piano lessons and at the age of fourteen, at the suggestion of a teacher, began to learn the bass guitar.

In 1998 Kruse moved to Berlin, to study at the Universität der Künste with Sigi Busch, Jerry Granelli and David Friedman with the double bass as the main instrument "Jazz / Improvisation".

During her studies Kruse played smaller tours with the April Light Orchestra and the Tied & Tickled Trio from Weilheim and from 1998 to 2000 under Peter Herbolzheimer in BuJazzO.

She also plays with Arne Jansen, Niels Klein and Nils Tegen in the quartet Firomanum,[3] as well as in the Berlin pop / jazz / electronic band SOAP.

She worked there often at the opening concert and played u. a. with [em], Firomanum, saxophonist Bunky Green, and the Jazz Baltica Ensemble under the direction of Johannes Enders.