Reen Nalli was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and attended Belleville High School.

In 1981 Nalli brought the Australian rock band INXS to ATCO [2] and they released Shabooh Shoobah which ended up going gold.

[5] After 14 years, Nalli returned to Ann Arbor where she began A&R Consultants a grassroots marketing and promotion company doing work with various labels such as Atlantic Records, Interscope, Geffen, and Epic.

She brought a number of artists to Universal Music Group including Platinum selling rock band Blue October.

[7] Nalli then brought Arie to Nashville to begin working on her music and in 2001 her debut Acoustic Soul was RIAA Double Platinum Certified.