New Jersey singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa was best known as a backing vocalist for her husband Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, until she started releasing her own albums. Scialfa began her musical career after she graduated from NYU. She took to busking in Sheridan Square in the center of Greenwich Village. She began playing on the BIg Appple's club scene in the early 1980s and to sing back up for rock acts on tour and in the studio including David Johansen, the Rolling Stones and Southside Johnny and thre Asbury Jukes.