 Sioux grew up in Nevada City, California, where she wrote verses since she was a young child.At 17 she traveled to Patagonia to volunteer at a school for indigenous children where she taught herself to play the guitar, and in 2006 she debuted her first self-released album "A Bundled Bundle of Bundles".A year later, in 2007, she released her first studio album "Faces in the Rocks" which featured her delicate acoustic guitar music alongside the Native American flute by Gentle Thunder, and mandolin played by her father Gary Sobonya.