Stefanie Joyce is a genre-defying artist whose music lives at the intersection of country, indie rock, and western noir—think Patsy Cline meets David Lynch. She was born in Chicago and raised in Vancouver, Canada. But she now lives in Nashville permanently. However, how she got here is as unique as any artist I’ve featured. Joyce started out aspiring to be a professional ballerina. She was bullied terribly in middle school, and ballet was an escape from it. She stated, “Dance is similar to singing. It's just doing something with your body to music instead of your mouth. And it's funny because even in ballet, like I was drawn to the stories of the old ballets like Swan Lake and Giselle for all these ghost stories of these haunted women. I've always been really drawn to that archetype of female pain, which has transmuted into something beautiful through art.”