Background
Allison Robertson was born on August 26, 1979, in North Hollywood, California. Her father is musician Baxter Robertson who wrote the track "Feel The Night" on the Karate Kid Soundtrack. Her mother, Lisa Jimenez, worked for Agricultural and Mechanical Records and for a variety of music publishing companies in Los Angeles prior to the family relocating to Palo Alto in the early 1980s.
Although she was born in North Hollywood, she later moved to Palo Alto, California, early in her childhood.