Alaina Stacey grew up with three brothers in a musical family in Chicago. Kicked out of the house for making too much noise while her older brothers and dad were recording in their home studio, three year old Alaina went outside in a tutu to throw a sophisticated tea party in the middle of nearby construction rubble with her best friend Rory. Dusty and dirty from head to toe, Alaina ambled back in the house singing a song she had just made up for her tea party co-host. The family quickly recorded it, documenting her first song, So Sad. She was then given a bath and sent off to bed.

From that moment on, the toddler was hooked.

In her formative years, Alaina drew from a host of rock, pop and musical theater influences, crushes and emotional rescues: Ben Folds, *NSYNC, No Doubt, Counting Crows, Death Cab for Cutie, Jack’s Mannequin, Evanescence, Bruce Springsteen, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Tom Waits, Hanz Zimmer, Alan Menken, Destiny’s Child, Ne-Yo, Eminem, The Fray, OutKast, Rihanna, Maroon 5, The Killers, Britney Spears, Coldplay, Wilco, and Goo Goo Dolls. The impact of these influences is not stylistic, but is reflected in the emotional imprint they convey.

She discovered country music on a rafting trip in Utah with her dad when she was 10. She began listening to Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift.

When she was just 16, Christian Century magazine stated that Alaina sounded like the long-lost little sister of Emmylou Harris, with high lonesome ‘woos’ that conveyed “a whirlwind full of autumn shivers.”

Two years later, as a teenage actress, the young Chicagoan caught the attention of theatre critics Chris Jones (Chicago Tribune) and Hedy Weiss (Chicago Sun-Times) during Alaina’s lead role in Profile’s Theatre’s Midwest premiere of Dream of the Burning Boy. Weiss described “her knockout of a performance, playing a nerdy girl devastated by the sudden death of her brother”. Jones highlighted her performance in his year-end review of the best of Chicago Theater, calling Alaina “powerful” in Burning Boy.

Soon after, Weiss unexpectedly found Alaina on stage performing original songs. Weiss wrote in the Sun-Times: “I was impressed by her lush voice, her captivating melodies and lyrics, and her wholly easeful stage presence.” Weiss wrote that she fully expected the young Alaina to stay in Chicago to act on countless other stages. Instead, she headed to Nashville to launch a music career.

One year after founding the Nashville based Americana group, Maybe April, Alaina appeared onstage with her group at the Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles, alongside Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson and The Goo Goo Doll’s Johnny Reznick as part of a GRAMMY week performance called A Song Is Born. Their Audiotree video went viral, and they remain one of Audiotree’s top twenty most popular videos. With Maybe April, she opened for Brandy Clark and Sarah Jarosz, and performed at Pilgrimage Music Festival, Merlefest, SXSW, CMA Fest, and other festivals, and released an EP and record, The Other Side, which was produced by her brother Julian. The band won “Americana Group of the Year'' two years in a row at the Arkansas Country Music Awards.

In her first release, this whimsical young woman offers a peek into the old soul within her, where heartbreak, worldliness and a romantic spirit reside.

Her brothers are excited about this release and have forgiven her for interrupting their recording session.