Shaprow recorded her debut album “Purple Skies” with Grammy-nominated producer Alex Eleña and Joshua Valleau.

[4] Michelle’s single "If I Lost You" reached number 1 on BBC London 94.9 FM,[4] charted on Gille’s Peterson’s Top 20 List and L.A.’s KCRW and played regularly as promotional theme music for VH1.

[8] Her music plays regularly at Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, H&M, Gilly Hicks, Barnes and Nobles, Wet Seal, BodyShop, Forever 21, EasySpirit, Arden B, Wilson's Leather, Applebee's, and Stylish Sophistication stores around the world[9] and has been featured on VH1, TLC and Discovery Channel.

In the same year, music industry blog Hypebot profiled Shaprow in a feature discussing her innovative use of social media platforms.

She studied media perception, cognition, psychology and philosophy at Yale University,[13] While at Yale she released music on Warner Brothers Records, Om Records, Ministry of Sound and King Britt's FiveSix label.