 Polachek has worked extensively with other artists, collaborating with Blood Orange, SBTRKT and Charli XCX, and penning material for Beyoncé ("No Angel"), Travis Scott, and Superfruit.Polachek was born in Manhattan, New York, on June 20, 1985.Her family relocated to Tokyo, Japan, when she was one to six years old, and later settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where Polachek started singing choir in the third grade.