Although Mairee Sioux grew up with no musical ambition, music came to be the best vessel to fill a cultural void filled by severed connections to her Polish, Hungarian and Native American ancestry. She learned guitar at the age of eighteen, while volunteering at a school for Mapuche children in Patagonia, Argentina, and soon she was badgered by friends to begin releasing the music she wrote. Her latest full-length album, 2019’s ‘Grief in Exile’, was made to ‘entice the sacred work of grief back into our lives from the exile American society has placed it in’.