With no formal training, she enrolled in an Improvisation class in high school and managed to get into Berklee College of Music based on the recommendation of her teacher, Louis Mazza.

First playing as keyboardist with Allentown, Pennsylvania-based band Steel Town Underground, MIDI programming and lead vocals were soon added to Voltage's bill.

The PV '94 tour culminated with the Inter-Week festival, a huge event sponsored by Novosibirsk State University and supported by the British Council, bringing together cultural and scientific figures in the scientists' enclave of Akademgorodok.

They produced a 6-song CD in 1999 entitled electrical tape that included the songs “Tie Me Up”, “Playing Slave Girl”, “Truth”, “Ice Cream (I Scream)”, “F-BOM” and “Sex Games”, getting solid reviews from industry rags like Outburn magazine.

Yocom convinced her to get back to songwriting and the two hit Hollywood as The Power of 3, boasting a fresh rock sound and balancing male and female lead vocals that encouraged love, peace, and thinking for oneself.