Alyssa showed a significant natural talent for singing at the tender age of four.  In her earliest memories she recalls her parents buying her a Radio Shack microphone and recording her voice on their home stereo, singing along with artists like Elvis Presley, Paul Simon, Anne Murray and many more. She remembers fondly driving with her beloved Grama in her big brown Oldsmobile, singing along to eight tracks of her earliest influences, Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, Charlie Pride, Lynn Anderson and so many more great country western singers.

Her first professional stage experience was at just eleven years old and she began recording in a professional recording studio at 12. She quickly developed an engaging stage presence and very shortly was performing with iconic local bands like Prism as well as other seasoned Vancouver musicians. She also began performing the National anthems at International Minor Hockey tournaments, Auto Racing, Boxing and Kick Boxing. This led to the opportunity to perform in Edmonton at the Northlands Coliseum for a charity bout between Edmonton Oilers enforcer, Dave Semenko and the great Muhammad Ali.

 At the dawn of her teenage years Alyssa was performing regularly on musical variety shows for CKVU-13 Vancouver and singing on the Jimmy Ferguson Show on CBC.

At fifteen, the acting bug hit and by sixteen she had earned her credits to become a full member of ACTRA. She has appeared in one Feature film, one Disney Sunday movie, various episodes of television series such as 21 Jump Street and the Black Stallion and had a co-starring role on VH1’s "Big Sound", directed by Canadian comedy icon, David Steinberg. She also appeared in print and Television commercial for companies like the Hudson’s Bay, Sears and The Province newspaper.

Alyssa definitely had an unusual youth, early on playing pubs at twelve and graduating to co-fronting rock band Strauss at just seventeen!

 Alyssa journeyed to Nashville to record a three song EP. Her debut release, the 1993 hit single “Rich Man” penned by a local songwriter, reached #3 on the Record’s Country chart and broke the top 20 on the National hit charts. It was an accomplishment one prominent radio programmer felt was unprecedented at the time. A radio tour and lots of stage time along with her chart success garnered her nominations for Horizon Award, Best Single and Female Artist of the Year at just 22!

A grateful recipient of the $25,000 FACTOR award, Alyssa released a full length CD titled “This Heart.” It was recorded at Tom Lavin’s Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver, produced by the late great Larry Wayne Clarke and received great critical success. A fantastic run at the Calgary Stampede followed and Alyssa was given the distinct honour of a Showcase at Canadian Country Music Week, which with great sadness she was unable to travel to perform, due to illness.

Alyssa then started a family and she is the proud mom of two beautiful children. She considers her children to be the greatest accomplishment of her life.

Later, encouraged by a dear friend to re-engage in music and performing, she accompanied her to an audition for International Abba Tribute Abracadabra. Alyssa was cast in the role of Agnetha and this led to exciting travel across Canada, the United States and East Asia,  performing for the Malaysian Royal family twice.  After ten great years she retired from the show to stay closer to her children and start her own company called As You Wish Princess parties, bringing joy to thousands of families in Vancouver and the lower mainland with her outstanding portrayal of Fairytale characters. It also gave her an amazing opportunity to share her heart and talent with Childrens Charities; BC Children’s hospital, The Miracle Network Telethon, Make a Wish Foundation, Canucks Autism Network, Dreams Take Flight-YVR, Girls Club and many more.

Just before 2020, Alyssa began performing her own tribute show to the great Patsy Cline.

She is currently writing new music, plans to record an album this year and is also writing a series of children’s stories and songs.