Samantha Moore grew up in Colborne, Ontario, Canada. She attended East Northumberland Secondary School. She began performing in summer singing competitions around Ontario and was 'discovered' in 2002 by Cliff Fabri (Avril Lavigne, bomb32, Jenifer McLaren)  at age thirteen while competing in the Kingston, Ontario Fall Fair Talent Contest. Six months later she was signed by Jimmy Iovine to a million dollar record deal with Geffen Records and moved to Los Angeles to write and record music. Samantha collaborated with well-known industry songwriters such as John Shanks,  Thom Panunzio, Rock Mafia, Curt Frasca, Sabelle Breer, Kara DioGuardi, Robbie Nevil, Matthew Wilder , The Matrix team of Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards and Scott Spock.  By the age of sixteen, Samantha had written and collaborated on more than a hundred songs. Many of these songs were recorded, but the release of her debut album was delayed . Moore’s songs “I Thought the World Was Round", and “Replace You" produced by Avril Lavigne's producers Curt Frasca and Sabelle Breer were featured on MTV’s television series, “The Hills”, the latter being included in the series soundtrack release. Her song “Pretty” was featured on MTV’s Laguna Beach.  She has signed a million dollar music publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing.