Patrizia Liliana Ferrara was born on February 20, 1977, as the younger child of two to her Austrian mother Edith and her Sicilian father Mario.

Living in an Austrian town at the country's southern border, she was raised to the sound of Italian radio pop music of the 80s and the traditional songs of her relatives from Sicily and Naples.

At sixteen, Ferrara moved to Vienna, where she began found work as an intern at the national radio concert hall (ORF Radiokulturhaus).

This encouraged her to start writing her first songs, enroll in conservatory to formally study jazz, and begin performing on stage.

[10] Throughout her career, Ferrara has performed, toured, and recorded with Waldeck, Lee Scratch Perry, Wladigeroff Bros,[11] Martin Spitzer,[12] Joschi Schneeberger, John Heard,[13] Dean Bowman,[14] Vinx, James Weidman, Danny Grissett,[15] Gerald Schuller, Lonnie Plaxico, Kyle Eastwood, Célia Mara, DJ DSL, Marcos Vigio, Jorge Amorim, Sertab Erener (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003), Jon Sass (Ray Anderson, Boston Symphony Brass, David Murry), Chester C. Washington (Earth, Wind and Fire), Rudi Wilfer†, Fred Eisler,[16] DJ CUTEX,[17] and the poet Christian Ide Hintze† for his 2004 pitch in the Austrian competition to participate in the European Song Contest 2005.