She was raised on the folk songs of Woody Guthrie and grew up listening to the sounds of her father's guitar. She was extremely agile and active from a very young age, learning to walk on the rocky hillsides of San Diego's North County. By age two and a half she was climbing to the tops of tall pine trees and scaring her parents to death!

A age six, after asking her mother for violin lessons, Jamaica began classical training on the piano, since there was a piano in the house and not a violin. She took to it and was soon winning competitions.

For three years she was a Bach Festival champion at ages eight, nine and ten. At age eight, Jamaica began folk guitar lessons and wrote her first talkin' blues at nine. She also wrote folk songs in a Woody Guthrie style. At age eleven, Jamaica received her first violin.

She loved the sound of the strings and felt immediate passion for the violin. She continued her piano studies through age fourteen and performed several times at institutes and workshops in honor recitals and in master classes, selected by teachers from all over the country. Eventually she set aside her piano studies in pursuit of the violin.

Jamaica studies the violin at the Fairbanks School of Performing Arts. She studies a classical Russian technique from the renowned Michael and Irina Tseitlin, both of whom were trained at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. Jamaica also has a love for both theater and dance.

She has studied gymnastics, tap, ballet, flamenco, African and Cuban dance. When she is not touring professionally, she teaches private violin and piano lessons and chamber music. Jamaica sings, writes songs and composes music. Her compositions and musical arrangements have been described as both inspired and intuitive. Jamaica has been most greatly influenced by the life and music of Ravi Shankar, composer and master of Indian classical music.

She believes that her greatest musical inspirations come from a connection of body, mind and spirit, a concept held sacred in the study of classical Indian music.

Jamaica's most desired goal as a musician is described best in the words of violinist Yehundi Menuhin. To achieve "a synthesis of the immediacy of expression, the spontaneity, truth and integrity of action suited to the moment…a form of honesty characteristic of both the innocent child and the great artist".