Devon Cole wasn't planning on being a singer.

Born and raised in Calgary, she sang in choirs and has written songs since her pre-teens, but Cole headed off to Kingston for a psychology degree, performing at open mics and gigs in her free time for fun. After graduating in 2020, she was getting ready to study advertising in the fall when all the pandemic-related downtime pushed her to realize that she didn't want to commit to a non-music career without ever releasing a song.

"All I've really ever wanted to do, if I'm being honest with myself — you know, outside of the romanticized linear progression of school to university to a job — is to write songs and to release music and to perform for people," she says. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.