Lennon Anne Murphy was born on March 31, 1982. She began playing piano at a young age and performed her first gig in front of people when she was fifteen. One day, Lennon came home after school to find her mother, her only parent, dead in her closet of an allergic reaction to some pills she had taken. This was just a few days prior to Lennon's eighteenth birthday and Lennon's signing with Arista records. Still, Lennon prevailed, fought for custody of her younger sister Mariella (which she eventually won)