[2] White started her music career aged 14 in 1997[citation needed] in a girl group punk trio TKO, short for technical knock out, with two friends from Lowton school, Joanne Leeson and Emma Lally.

In March 2001, David White brought in songwriter Jules De Martino, who wrote four songs for TKO.

[citation needed] White got back in touch with Jules De Martino when she was at Leeds University and he moved to Manchester.

[7] They formed a band called Dear Eskiimo (often misreported as Dead Eskimo) with a DJ friend Simon Templeman.

There were already several bands called "Eskimo" but Jules, who wrote the lyrics, wanted his songs to tell good stories as if in a letter, hence "Dear Eskiimo" with the odd spelling of 'Eskimo" with two 'I"s to make it stand out.

In 2014, White told the Daily Record that comments by Internet trolls previously caused her to stop writing songs for six months.

[13][14] In a February 2022 BBC interview, White and De Martino spoke of their 20-month-old daughter and personal relationship: "The pair have previously avoided saying whether they are romantic as well as musical partners.