Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Antoinette has been playing music from a very early age. She started classical lessons on the violin at 4 1/2 years, and piano lessons at 6. In subsequent years she picked up the viola, keyboards, guitar, cello, and ukulele. Oh yea, and she sings too.

 

Antoinette really started writing songs in her highschool years, her creativity fanned by the confusion of teenhood. Most of her most well favored songs originated from that period of time, including Close Your Eyes, featured on the Handpainted EP. The music she wrote then was heavily influenced by Billy Joel, an artist who's music she reveled in for quite a few years.

 

In the fall of 1998, Antoinette was given the fantastic opportunity to live in Italy for several months. The beauty of the land and the people was again an inspiration, and she wrote Handpainted during her stay there, without the benefit of an easily accessable piano.


 

In 2002, Antoinette started a very exciting and valuable journey with the band the Revolving Jugglers. This was her first experience working with a band, and she learned a whole heck of a lot. While with the band, she was able to record the Handpainted EP, as well as the Revolving Jugglers' 2nd full length CD, Bullet Train. The album was met with crictial acclaim and Antoinette's voice was quoted to be a "thing of beauty".

 

Since leaving the band in 2004, Antoinette has begun several musical projects, including a fruitful enchantment with the Ukulele. She is regularly featured at the Annex's "Spin The Bottle" and hopes to further her porfolio with the connections and friends she has made recently in those circles. She is working on material for the ukulele, and hopes to have the makings of a CD later in 2006.