June McDoom

June grew up in a Jamaican household in South Florida, an existence built of strong extended family, communal care, bass and harmonics.

Her father, a carpenter and student of sound all his own, built his own speakers and maintained no less than three sound systems across as many rooms.

The bass from his solitary DJ sets would sneak its way through her bedroom floor, making itself at home like some wayward cat as she listened to folk records, finding harmonies that were new and special to her.

She would find folk music on her own, somewhere between the cast recording of The Sound of Music and Simon and Garfunkel’s contributions to The Graduate.

She did not mind being the only one listening to folk; the solitude afforded her the opportunity to fall in love with harmony first, before words, before anything else.