When her father was part of Carlos Santana's band, she danced onstage with him at Madison Square Garden.
[1] In her early teens she began performing with Afro Cuban, Brazilian, and jazz bands.
[2] At the age of eighteen she moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Luis Bonilla, Garry Dial, Laurie Frink, and Wycliffe Gordon.
[3] She performed with Nicholas Payton's Television Symphony Orchestra and Peter Apfelbaum's New York Hieroglyphics Ensemble.
[3] She has appeared with the bands Dumpstaphunk and Lettuce and has been an artist at large at Bear Creek Music Festival.