About.

Joanna Borne is a singer, songwriter, producer, and visual artist whose music exists at the intersection of raw emotion and cinematic sound. Blending elements of pop, hip-hop, and sync-driven textures, she crafts deeply personal songs that explore vulnerability, transformation, identity, and faith. Based in Nashville, TN, Joanna’s artistry is shaped as much by her professional experience in mental health as it is by the wild Canadian landscapes where she was raised.

Originally from a small city in Saskatchewan, Canada, Joanna grew up in a home full of creativity and connection to nature. Her father taught her guitar and songwriting, her mother introduced her to piano, and her early life was marked by an extraordinary bond with animals adopted by her family—including a wolf, two wolf hybrids, golden eagle, grey owl, and multiple other family pets and rescues.

She started writing songs at a young age and started pursuing a career in music at 15. By 2014, Joanna was already releasing music professionally under a different artist name. Her second single in 2015 charted on Canadian country radio’s Top 100, earning her festival appearances like Ness Creek and building a local fanbase.

Nearly 10 years ago, Joanna secured a room to rent in an apartment in Nashville, packed everything she owned, along with her cat, into a 2005 manual Honda Civic and made the cross-continent journey from northern Saskatchewan to Nashville. She knew no one in the city. She unpacked and began building her life and career from the ground up.

Joanna has been working as a Registered Nurse in inpatient psychiatric hospitals for the past 10 years, one year in Canada with youth, and then in 3 other inpatient psychiatric facilities over the past nine years in Nashville. Her work has given her an unfiltered view of the mental health system and a passion for mental health. Those compiled experiences over the past 10 years deeply informs her songwriting today.

After years of development, Joanna rebranded and began writing and producing a sound more in line with her musical taste and influences. Her music caught the attention of Nashville creatives like David Lehr—who co-wrote and produced several of her singles including “Selfish,” “No Drama,” “Hey I See You,” and “Understand Me.” David Lehr also filmed and produced music videos for “Carousel” and “No Drama”.

Joanna also collaborated with guitarist and producer Ben Flanders, co-creating songs like “Carousel,” “My Friend,” and “Moolah-la” (which is currently a finalist in the 2025 International Songwriting Competition).

Her recent projects include work with producer, writer, vocalist, and grammy-winning engineer Jesse Brock. Together Jesse Brock and Joanna co-write and produced 4 new songs as well as refined and finished 3 others Joanna had pulled off of the shelf and handed to Jesse Brock to complete, including the first to go out in 2025, Angels.

Angels—releasing May 23, 2025—was written during a season of doubt, the song wrestles honestly with trying to hold onto faith when everything feels uncertain. The track began as a self-built demo, with Joanna composing piano, choir layers, and synths which were kept in the final production. She had brought the partially written song and demo to David Lehr who co-wrote the song and added more production, cut and edited final vocals and background vocals. Given the vulnerable content of doubt and trying to find faith, “Angels” sat on the shelf for years. Joanna brought it back out and showed Jesse Brock who finished the production by adding some drums in areas, strings, other production elements and mixed it. The song was then mastered by John Greenham and is due to release this May.

Joanna’s unreleased song “Wolves” (due to release November 2025)—a cinematic anthem inspired by the combination of the city she grew up in and her childhood with wolves—has also caught social media attention with a viral video of Joanna interacting with a white arctic wolf named “Halo” at a wolf sanctuary in Saskatchewan (“A Wolf Adventure”) which has brought new eyes to her music and her story. She filmed the music video for “Wolves” at the sanctuary close to where she grew up. The “Wolves” music video merges her passion for animals, nature, and music into a visual statement.