Jaye has been described as Tina Turner with an acoustic guitar. Carrie Underwood meets Mary J. Blige – acoustic soul. Jaye’s website states that she was the only Black woman to have a residency on Nashville’s famed Lower Broadway, where she frequently played Justin Timberlake’s Twelve Thirty Club. She performed at the Nashville Airport for seven years, an experience she wrote on Instagram made her the artist she is.

However, her background growing up in various towns and schools also contributed to her genre fluidity

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Her website said Jaye came from “a hood area” of Kansas City. Then, she moved to a semi-rural area of Tennessee and back to suburban Missouri. She spent her last year of high school at Hillwood High School in Nashville.

“I went from an all-Black school to being the only Black kid in the eighth grade to a college-style high school with a $6 million fine arts building,” she said, explaining her family had a piano and that she would get up as early as 2 a.m. to practice worship music for church.

Larysa Jaye was a Mom of Four

She started writing songs at 16 years old. She described her family’s faith as strict and said they sheltered her. Jaye tried out for Commercial Performance at Belmont University but wasn’t selected. She had her first son at 21 years old and twins at 25. However, as a single mother, she prevailed. Jaye worked office jobs until an open mic night reignited her desire for a music career. Her daughter was born in 2018, and the singer endured a nasty divorce in 2019. But, she learned she could make as much money in two days singing at the Nashville airport as she earned working 40 hours a week as a secretary.