While she was certain of her career in music long before she auditioned for the show, she explained that it was American Idol that helped carve her path.

"I have a lot of faith in my destiny and I've always really thought that this was in the cards for me and I wasn't going to stop until I got here, living in a musical household like I did," she told Radio.com last year at Lollapalooza. "Either way I would like to try whatever it took to get there but American Idol was such an amazing platform and outlet for me and I didn't know if it would work."