After spending her childhood steeped in music, beginning with formal violin training at the age of three, Carey turned down a scholarship to study violin and vocal performance to instead pursue her desire to care for sick children.  Born with a serious congenital heart defect herself, Carey spent over a decade working as a nurse and nurse practitioner in the neonatal and pediatric ICU.  After the birth of her second child, becoming extremely busy restoring and opening a historic theater venue in her hometown, and experiencing significant health care burnout, Carey left the hospital and spent the next two years floundering a bit.  She opened a non-traditional elementary school and started a doctoral program at Vanderbilt, but felt she was lacking the passion she had once felt in her career in critical care.

After some soul searching and with encouragement and support from family and friends, Carey started to find her voice again.  What began as a plan to record a few cover songs to gift to her father for Christmas turned into collaborations with several musicians and producers, with over a dozen new songs rapidly emerging from these sessions.  The immense enjoyment and returned sense of fulfillment helped Carey to realize she had really just been missing her first love, music.  Currently, Carey is working on releasing several singles, as well as the development of a modern vampire-inspired musical production, which will debut with a theatrical performance of a concept album this fall at the theater she helped to restore, The Howard.