Mary has been playing music for 12 years. In 2008 she warmed up for the Kenny Chesney Poets and Pirates Tour with Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, and Gary Allen. Her influences include the whole spectrum of singers and/or songwriters from Jewel, Shania Twain and Carol King to Faith Hill, Jason Mraz, Keith Urban and the Beatles. She has been told she sounds like Jewel, Alison Krauss, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, or Michelle Branch.