Raised in Mississippi and based in Nashville, Cothran gained popularity on social media platform TikTok with a series of song covers in a minor key.

She gained recognition for her cover of Matt Maltese's song "As the World Caves In" in 2021, earning 400 million streams and a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

[2][3] Cothran began posting music on YouTube in 2017,[3][4] and launched a TikTok account after graduating high school in 2020, having moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

[4] In January 2018, Cothran released a cover of Avenged Sevenfold's "So Far Away" featuring her older sister Michaila, which received more than one million views.

[12] Following the song's success, Cothran signed with Republic Records in August 2021,[13] represented by Sara Bollwinkel of Wasserman Music,[3][14] and legally by Doug Mark.

[24] The music video for "I'm Here" was released on December 17, filmed by the Nashville Drone Company at Harpeth Valley Farm in Kingston Springs, Tennessee.

[32][33] She released a single, "Gutter", on April 26,[34] followed by "Lead Me On" on June 28,[35] when she revealed she had recently split from Republic to become an independent artist, wanting to make music without external pressures.