Originally inspired by alternative folk rock artists like Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley and Ani DiFranco,[1] Tucker – also called "Sooj" or "Skinny White Chick" – soon branched out to assume a more diverse identity.

Since her debut album in 2004, Tucker's work has integrated elements of electronica, filk, spoken word, world music, industrial metal, and – with the troupe Fire & Strings – fire-spinning.

Disgusted by "mainstream" employment, she began performing as a singer and guitarist while at college in 1997, formed her first band, Skinny White Chick, in 1999, recording one self-produced EP over the subsequent years.

[5] After performing as a featured artist at a string of festivals in 2002, Tucker recorded an EP called Skinny & the Semi-pros with the members of Memphis band Stout.

Combining their respective skills and talents, the couple formed the Fire & Strings troupe in 2004, and began performing at the Burning Man festival and across the United States in 2005.

Sharing stages with Phyllis Curott, Gaia Consort, Wendy Rule, Selena Fox, Catherynne M. Valente, Incus, Emerald Rose, Rev.

Barry W. Lynn, Alexander James Adams, SONA, Celia, and many others, Tucker has incorporated elements of social activism, neopagan spirituality and mythpunk fantasy into her repertoire.

Tucker's fire-spinning inspired Valente to include a fantasy version of her–the Fire-Dancer[15] – in the 2007 follow-up novel The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice.

The saga sees Wendy join the crew, grow strong, fall out with Peter Pan, and finally attack Hook after hearing him plot to marry her off to Bluebeard.

In the ensuing fight, Peter drops Hook into the waiting mouth of the crocodile–a coincidental fate, given that the trilogy shares an album with the song "Alligator in the House" (see below).