ANDII wasn’t supposed to be a musician—not if the scatter-brained, ten-year-old version of herself had anything to say about it, that is.

Growing up in a family of vocalists, ANDII was drawn to visual arts, literature, and science instead. The very first thing she remembers wanting to be was an archeologist, in fact. Music, while ever-present in the way of hand-me-down guitars and long-forgotten lessons, wasn’t something she imagined she’d ever be good at. 

At 15 years old, however, she learned that her hearing would be lost in the matter of a few short decades due to a genetic anomaly. Unsure of when she might lose the gift of sound, her desire to author music intensified. She taught herself the basics of guitar, leaning on the distant memories of lessons she’d taken previously. She first learned songs by some of her favorite artists, building an understanding of songwriting and storytelling, until she finally broke away and began writing her own material.

More than a decade later, ANDII has written dozens of songs about life, love, and loss, and there simply isn’t any path that makes more sense for her than that of musicality and vulnerability.