Chorister to Metal Head

Shipped off to England at 10, on a choral scholarship, Alison Whiteacre also studied cello and piano at St. Michael's College in Worcestershire. She came back to Toronto a teenager and tore it all down, chasing metal, jazz, folk and punk: anything but 4 part choir music.

Buddhist Retreat to LA Strip

After a gestation period, studying jazz, funk and world music at Naropa University in the mid 80s, she landed in LA. Whiteacre threw herself into the club circuit, winning guitar and songwriting battles. Simultaneously producing rock, pop and alternative records, and building a licensing catalog writing for commercials, TV and film music.

Big Planet Music

In 2007 she co-found Big Planet Music Inc. her licensing catalog, landing placements in numerous commercials and thousands of TV episodes.

Going Undercover

But underneath the wins was a war nobody could see: decades spent fighting gender dissonance with confusion,  denial and addiction, burning through a career and herself at the same time.

Burnout & Recovery

In 2015, it caught up with her: total studio burnout, a full stop. Whiteacre walked away for seven years to rebuild her life as a leadership coach. She was finally doing the internal work that her music had always circled around but had never fully embraced. 

Coming Out Alive

Then in 2017, she came out as transgender. Everything that had been buried also came out with her. That collision of survival and truth didn't end her music, no, it set the stage to reignite it.

Two new albums, Coming Out Alive and Acoustic Diaries Vol. 1, BOTH streaming now. This is the sound of decades of fight turned into vibrant proof that what almost broke her is exactly what now is driving the most alive, unguarded music of her life.