Andrea was born one half of the Nourse twins in Kansas City (Go Royals!) and raised in southwest Missouri (A-V-A, you can spell it forwards and backwards!). In 2004, she made a New Year's resolution to make the pilgrimage to Music City. On December 31, 2004 with her mom and aunt and uncle in tow, she made the move. As a child, Andrea found her creative outlet through rewriting the lyrics to the songs she heard blaring through the speakers of her mom's 1980-something Dodge Charger. In her teens, she found herself drawn to pop and country music and started penning lyrics filled with the pining o...