Yoshioka attended an arts high school and studied painting and sculpture, eventually joining a band as a vocalist.

[citation needed] She came to wider notice in 2012 when she was discovered by Naoki Yamanouchi, Sweet Soul Records' CEO, who released her single "Make the Change."

In May 2014, Yoshioka and Owens debuted at Blue Note Tokyo, and in August of that year she was invited to perform at the Meet the World Beat summer festival hosted by Osaka radio station FM802, which selected Yoshioka's music for "Heavy Rotation" programming whereupon her music was played in heavy rotation for the entire month.

[6] In the summer of 2016, Yoshioka performed at her first major US music festival, Capital Jazz Fest, alongside artists including Lalah Hathaway and Marcus Miller.

The album's U.S. re-release (4 September 2018) received glowing reviews, noting that she was the first Japanese soul singer to make waves in the birthplace of the music she's devoted her career to.

[10] Yoshioka performed at the Blue Note in New York in April 2019, a few months before the August 16 release of her fourth album, Undeniable, again on Sweet Soul Records.