As a teenager, Reyne moved to New Zealand's North Island where she studied software engineering at the Central Institute of Technology in Wellington.

Reyne has since released 11 more albums of her own work to critical acclaim worldwide,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] earning two more Tui nominations and a Sounz commendation award.

Reyne's music draws on folklore and story-telling to depict political themes and the lives of ordinary characters in often extraordinary situations[13][14][15] Her use of "Found Sound", percussion and drones, often in the form of factory noise, aims at grounding the stories in their time.

[17] Jordan's most recent project "Maiden, Mother, Crone" looks specifically at how pagan archetypes affect the roles and perceptions of women in the present day.

Two of her CDs were also released under this title, which gained her attention and a following internationally in the darkwave and steampunk scenes, and prompted a move to Germany in 2006.