As a child, she began to regularly perform in school plays and beauty pageants while studying the piano.

[7] She would regularly get kicked out of class for singing, prompting her mother to enroll her in a performing arts school so she could put her talent to good use.

[7] In 2011, Ledé's mother discovered Kidz Bop, a website for kids to upload and share videos of themselves performing.

After performing Adele's "Someone Like You" to earn her a place in the Top 4, Ledé won the 2011 KIDZ Star USA Grand Prize out of 45,000 submissions, the largest national talent competition for kids ages 15 and under.

[7] At a school assembly, Ledé was told that she won the national talent search by American Idol winner Kris Allen.

[10] Brown has performed the song on The Today Show and at the 86th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

[11] The site praised "Hey Chica" for promoting a "clear message of self-empowerment and encourages young women to feel beautiful in their own skin".

[13] In 2018, she also accepted a lead role alongside Joseph Simmons of Run-DMC in the Netflix original series All About The Washingtons.

Ledé's second studio EP, Myself, was released in June 2019, and included the single "Bouncin" featuring rapper Offset, which peaked within the top 30 of Billboard's rhythmic airplay chart.

Standalone singles "Title" and "Easy Breezy" would build momentum for her debut album, which Ledé had been working on for some time.