[7] Hunt is a third-generation Windrush immigrant;[8] her grandmother Liz had moved to Bradford from Jamaica at age fourteen,[9] and with one[10] of her four sisters[11] ran a pirate radio station.

[11] She also owned a sound system and used it to soundtrack family gatherings with tracks by Goldie, Roni Size, Shy FX, and assorted gospel, soul and R&B,[12] and introduced Dehaney to successful women of colour such as M.I.A., Jennifer Lara, and Ms.

[2] Around this time, she found her interest in photography revived after she went down digital rabbit holes, and watched documentaries like the LTJ Bukem film Modern Times (1996), the Talkin' Headz (1998) Metalheadz documentary, and Channel 4's film, All Junglists: A London Somet'ing Dis (1994), taking particular interest in the role of women in the scene such as Kemistry & Storm and DJ Flight.

Mainstream clubs were not open to her as she did not have ID, so she made friends during this period by attending squat raves and underground house parties, using her Handycam to strike up conversations.

[2] In 2017,[13] to accompany the videos she was creating,[4] and as an outlet for the emotions she was feeling, she downloaded a bootleg version of Logic Pro, having become fed up by the way local producers were treating her;[2] finding herself speeding her music up, she discovered she was making jungle after researching its roots.

[2] Her early works were uploaded to SoundCloud under the name Indigo D. After finding herself in a HEALTHY relationship in Manchester, she worked 6 hour weeks at KFC to save for a move to London,[12] and in 2019,[14] she enrolled on a course at CM, which had a music production and business course in partnership with the University of Westminster, and moved to a warehouse in Hackney Wick[15] next to a glass factory,[16] which she initially paid for using a part-time job in Wetherspoons.

[22] She then collaborated with Rebel MC on a remix of Lava La Rue's "Magpie", and in October 2021, she released "Forbidden Feelingz", which sampled Columbo, a murder detective series, in tribute to Liz, and which was accompanied by a music video directed by Delphino.

[34] In June, she supported Beyoncé on her Renaissance World Tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium;[35] she told The Face in February 2024 that she had only discovered she would be performing there on the day, and that she had received "a lot" of abuse for playing jungle.

[40] The following month, she announced her debut album, Silence Is Loud, which was also co-written and co-produced by Flynn,[43] and released its title track, an ode to her love for her brother.

[51] Reviewing Forbidden Feelingz, Pitchfork described her voice as "indebted to the jazzy licks of Erykah Badu and Nina Simone", and with "a soulful lilt and lyrics from the sunnier sides of reggae music".

[28] In June 2023, Gauchoworld described Hunt, Piri & Tommy, and PinkPantheress as "at the forefront of the "bedroom rave" movement",[52]: 64  and in September 2023, Clash described her as one of the leaders of the post-2020 drum and bass revival alongside Venbee, Charlotte Plank, and Piri,[10] the last of whom used a January 2024 The Guardian piece to state that the success of both Archives and Yunè Pinku was inspirational in her choosing to become a producer herself.

[53] Additionally, Alexis Petridis used a Silence is Loud review to observe that Hunt occupied a "roughly equivalent" position to Goldie, a 1990s jungle musician, describing both as a "striking, charismatic figurehead for a genre traditionally lacking in striking, charismatic figures", and that on Silence is Loud, Hunt was "unafraid to tether her breakbeats to a pounding four-to-the-floor kick drum, a move that would have been absolutely verboten in 90s jungle"; he also noted that Forbidden Feelingz and Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall posited Hunt as a "weightier counterpoint" to the works of PinkPantheress.