H grew up singing and playing piano, having been pushed onto a church stage at 5 years. At 15, she started teaching herself to play guitar. After college, she followed a boyfriend to Oaxaca, Mexico, but left him when she was recruited to play in a band. After a couple years, she traveled back to the U.S. and performed in bars and restaurants– including a stint as a cabaret singing server– while preparing for grad school. Her education, marriage and motherhood prompted a long hiatus from music, but after a cancer scare, lost work, divorce and other life events, H found new inspiration in song. After meeting her partner Britton at an open mic, they formed Naked Dawn, a drum and guitar duo that performs bi-lingual music pulling from traditional Oaxacan music, along with folk, blues, and cabaret. H’s songs emphasizes the romantic over the cynical, and she believes that nothing is too dangerous to talk about. She believes in living juicy, loving hard and laughing lots, and that passion is ever present in her songwriting. Find more of H and Naked Dawn's music on Facebook and Instagram.

On the upcoming Season 4 debut episode of the Raw Songwriting podcast, H, lead singer-songwriter for the duo Naked Dawn, talks about how writing in Spanish is different than writing in English.