[2] The daughter of an American father and a Québécois mother, Shonk was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in Quebec City.

[3] Although fluently bilingual, she writes songs almost entirely in English, which she attributes to having been influenced primarily by anglophone rather than francophone music.

[1] Her album does, however, include three French-language songs co-written with Patrick Sauvageau.

[1] She was a competitor on the second season of TVA's La Voix in 2014,[4] but was eliminated from the competition after losing a duel round to Mathieu Lavoie.

[5] During the same period, she recorded a cover of Beyoncé's "Halo" for the soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil show Crystal.