Lynsea was born in the back seat of a Chevy Blazer to traveling evangelists in Texas. She was exposed to music at a young age through the international ministries she and her family were a part of. She began writing songs as a child, innately fascinated by words, language, and music and has memories of sitting in front of the stereo pausing Britney or Shania’s latest single to rewrite each line in her own words. Through some family challenges when she was 6, she created an emotional and personal connection with songwriting. Her musical influence was limited to her father’s side of the family having a background in ballet and classical piano, her consistent exposure to Texas country music, and her Christian upbringing during the Christian Rock era. 

Her musical education started at 8 when her great-grandmother offered to put her in voice lessons for a semester. Then at 11, she joined her elementary school’s All City Choir for a year. At 12 she joined her Middle School band as an oboe player. This is where she learned a foundation in music theory, vibrato, breathing techniques, and general music knowledge. At 15, a friend gifted her a guitar, so Lynsea asked her uncle to teach her a few chords. From there she began writing her own songs again. Shortly after, a family member offered to set up voice lessons for another year. 

She and a classmate started a band during her freshman year of high school. They recorded her original songs and performed around North Texas. She recalls being full of pride, walking around the cafeteria at lunchtime with her CD player asking anyone to listen. After this, her local church started a ‘songwriting club’, so she continued to write. She learned about Berklee College of Music during her Sophomore year, and decided this was where she wanted to go to college. Her limited formal training didn’t give her many options to study music right out of high school, but Berklee’s contemporary program offered opportunities to showcase songwriting. She was accepted with a songwriting scholarship and graduated high school early to move to Boston.

At Berklee, she studied Music Business while also focusing on songwriting. Her first year, she created a 20 song demo album recorded on her own in her studio apartment, her second year she funded a Kickstarter for an EP she recorded in Denton, TX while home that summer, the final year she worked with a fellow Berklee producer on another EP. Post graduation, she was back in Dallas and continued to write and perform. Feeling drawn back to worship music, she worked towards opportunities to lead worship and applied to worship internships. She was accepted to Elevation Church’s internship program in 2016 as a Creative intern. She eventually was hired to help run their new independent label, Elevation Worship Records. After a couple years, she decided to pursue her own music again. Shortly after leaving Elevation, she released ‘Coffee At Midnight’ and ‘Handmedown Love’ originally under the artist name, ‘Lewis’. She and her husband also created an electronic-pop project under the artist name, ‘Alva’. 

After a severe family loss in 2019 and then the pandemic in 2020, Lynsea put music on pause. In Jan 2023, she decided she was ready to start creating again. She began releasing a single every month with a local producer (Alastair). They released ‘Waiting Up’, ‘What’s Left’, ‘magic & miracles’, ‘warmblooded’, ‘Out of My Mind’, ‘Love Me Anyway’, ‘Love Me Anyway (Acoustic)’, and ‘crawl’. She also began writing for sync licensing and signed a few songs exclusively with Unicorn Music and Atrium Music. In 2024, she completed a short, regional acoustic tour with Sofar Sounds, and released an album of alternate versions of her song ‘Out of My Mind’, one of which was in Spanish. She received a grant shortly after to release her next single, ‘hormones’, in English, Spanish and French. ‘hormones’ is set to release in August 16, 2024.

She continues to pursue studying foreign languages and cultures on her own time as well as volunteering as an ESL teacher for immigrants through International House’s ESL programs. ‘hormones’ Spanish and French versions are forecasted to release late 2024.