Born to a musical family, Jeannine grew up in a multi-instrumental and multi-cultured home. She began formal classical training at the age of 7, studying the violin and singing in choir. Informally, she sang in the church gospel choir. She continued her education in music throughout her teens in Andover, MA, and later attended the University of Missouri School of Music. Throughout her life she has continued this pattern of formal and informal development, with the help of teachers and collaborators far and wide. Ever pushing the boundaries of her own comfort zone, Jeannine took an interest in improvisation and started moonlighting with country, blues, bluegrass, and rock bands around Missouri, while studying jazz theory and improv in college. She has toured and traveled as an artist and teacher - though she is always a perpetual student of music. However, after spending all of her musical career playing other people's music, she was ready to apply everything she had learned.

In 2020, she moved to Colorado and met Stefan at local mainstay, Solar Roast Coffee. She was inspired and intrigued by his music and singing voice. They hit it off and a short time later created The Canary Initiative, a project within which they can freely express themselves.