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Cyndi Harvell grew up in the deep, deep South where people eat fried catfish and grits and drink sweet tea -- not iced tea, sweetened -- but sweet tea. Her Barbie dolls sang musicals, and she sang along with the various pop princesses of the time -- Tiffany, Paula, Janet, Madonna -- and danced around the living room with her friends. Young Cyndi also liked to climb trees, create secret clubs with the neighborhood kids, and sold seashells from the driveway. Fast forward to 1999, when Cyndi took her little Yamaha off to college in the mini-music-mecca of Athens, GA, she met a friend who helped her to form her first band. Terrified, shy and lacking confidence, she played some open mics with her very first full-band shows to responsive crowds. For the very first time in her life, Cyndi felt like she knew where her place was in the world. After a couple years, she recorded her first album and built up a little following.