Formed in Dallas, November 2014, LastNovember started out as an acoustic artist with dark indie-folk roots. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, she focused heavily on piano compositions. She was inspired from an early age by her teacher and accredited concert pianist Dr. Jon Hynes. Throughout her adolescence, influence from punk and classic rock coupled with Christian pop made for a strange marriage of sound as she discovered her own. Folk and indie broke into her world when in her last years of high school. Under the wing of Dr. Monson, she built her own banjo while scratching out tunes on the hammer dulcimer at the Arkansas Folk Festival.
In her college days, she got to travel the world; she found commonality in music and its ability to bring people together: whether singing the same hymn across four different continents or leaning on a song for friendship in a lonely place. Her sound landed somewhere between Daughter and City and Colour when she relocated to Seattle. She found herself relying on more complex sounds from artists like The 1975 and LIGHTS and musing acoustic fills from Hozier and John Mayer.
Now in the greater Detroit area, her ear lends itself to B.B. King, soul-rock, and Motown. Music has been her way of processing and telling stories--sometimes stories not even her own. For her, it's always been about using music as a means of connecting individuals and the journey of faith. To the process and the payout. To the ebb and the flow.