 Every summer she went to music camp and to the Netherlands, where she frequently locked herself in her father's studio and listened to jazz and old R&B records.At the age of 16, Woodward was accepted into the Manhattan School of Music to study jazz, but after a year she decided to learn songwriting and performing on her own.She spent the next few years performing in swing organ trios including The Sugarman 3, working as a session singer, waiting tables, and singing jazz standards in restaurants in Greenwich Village.