[1] Music from her 2007 debut album Ready To Wake Up was licensed by Muzak and has been played in department stores and restaurants throughout the world.

Shannon became the stage manager for Boulder's Fox Theatre, working with such artists as Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and Julian Lennon.

In 2004, Shannon co-founded Don't Call Us Tori, a showcase for Los Angeles' best female singer songwriters, which included Kyler England of The Rescues, Kat Parsons, and Marina V. Shannon also performed as a touring keyboardist for former Disney Channel star Brie Larson, seen on the Showtime series United States of Tara and the film Scott Pilgrim vs.

She began to gain a sizeable following online, utilizing social networking websites and garnering praise from Rolling Stone, who listed her as one of their Top 25 Bands on Myspace, along with notable artists like The Airborne Toxic Event.

The album featured tracks produced by Guy Erez and Michael Woodrum, and was applauded by many in the blogosphere like the site Lyrical Venus and numerous online radio stations like KGRL and Sirius XM Radio The music licensing company Muzak picked up on the album and began playing tracks from it in their thousands of stores, malls and restaurants throughout the world.

In August 2010, Lovers and Poets released their self-titled debut album, to much critical praise from blog sites like We All Want Someone To Shout For[3] and Keeping an Ear Out,.

Shannon spent three months as a lounge performer at the Park Hyatt in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from December 2009 to March 2010.

While in Vietnam, Shannon watched the devastation of the earthquake that ravaged Haiti in January 2010, and decided to team up with her musician friends all over the world.

An early single from this album called Beg Steal Borrow was used in the web soap opera Venice: The Series in November 2010.

In the fall of 2010, Shannon was approached by songwriter and producer Aruna to sing on a trance track she had penned with Sir Adrian and Raz Nitzan.

Nitzan had Shannon in mind to sing it after he discovered her album with Lovers & Poets on the music site Amie Street.

The song debuted at Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance festival 500 in Johannesburg, South Africa in a set by Protoculture on March 18, 2011.