Shaina Noll was born in 1955 and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After sojourns in Dallas and the San Francisco Bay area, she lived for 24 years in Santa Fe, New Mexico and moved to Port Townsend, Washington in August of 2008. She married to Richard Noll in 1985 who has been a collaborator on all of her recordings and is also her partner in their business, Singing Heart Productions. The spiritual domain is at the center of everything Noll's life, and is reflected in all of her work.